HIV medics lodge appeal
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Lawyers for foreign medics sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV launch appeals.
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Talks are set to open on the transfer from Libya to Bulgaria of six medics convicted of infecting children with HIV.
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The World Health Organization urged political leaders in the Western Pacific region to step up efforts to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, saying the number of infections continues to grow.
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South Africa's leading AIDS  treatment lobby is taking the government to court, accusing the  authorities of falling behind their own targets to give drugs  to people with HIV, the group's lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence in Libya after an eight-year ordeal over the infection of hundreds of children with HIV-tainted blood were facing an anxious wait on Wednesday as the world called on Tripoli to send them home.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences on charges of infecting children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
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Concerned about the rapid spread of AIDS in Andhra Pradesh, the state government is enlisting the support of barbers and religious leaders to spread awareness.
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HIV carriers in China may have a chance to become civil servants under a new health standard for recruitment. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Health are now seeking
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TRIPOLI -- Libya's Supreme Court will rule in July on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV in a trial that has affected Tripoli's ties with the West. "The case is reserved for a verdict on July 11," the judge, Fathi Dhan, told the court yesterday. The five Bulgarian nurses and a ...
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NEW YORK -- Black ministers called on the federal government Tuesday to declare HIV/AIDS among blacks a public health emergency and proposed legislation to address the disease in their community.
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A new class of HIV drugs will help doctors treat patients who have become resistant to treatment.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy, his wife and EU officials pressed for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with AIDS, the president's office said Monday.
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South Africans tired of flowers and chocolates might want to give their loved-ones a more practical gift this Valentine's Day -- an AIDS test.
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Thousands of people demonstrated across  Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian  nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for  infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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A European Union medical delegation is visiting Libya to assess the plight of some 400 children infected with HIV. In May, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for intentionally infecting them.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 30 -- U.N. health officials on Wednesday called on nations with severe AIDS epidemics to offer routine, confidential HIV tests to all patients at health-care facilities in hopes of dramatically expanding the number of those who know they have the virus.
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Screening for TB by the United Kingdom discriminates against Kenyans with HIV, say Aids activists.