Female Cases of H.I.V. Found Rising Worldwide
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Women make up nearly half of infected adults worldwide, the United Nations said in issuing its annual report on AIDS.
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.
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Technicians of the Health Ministry have started this month to collect blood samples from pregnant women, for a study on the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis &quot;B&quot; and Syphilis, throughout the country, reads a press note released by the World Health
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ALMOST half of all Aids sufferers are now women and the number infected is increasing in every region of the world, according to a UN report published yesterday.
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One in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can cause cervical cancer, according to the first broad national estimate.
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A vaccine developed to protect woman from a virus responsible for most cervical cancer cases has shown promising results in clinical trials.
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A worldwide &quot;pandemic&quot; of violence against women is fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS, human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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AIDS is spreading faster among women than men in most parts of the world, the United Nations said Wednesday in its annual report marking World AIDS Day.
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At least one in 10 girls in England is infected by a virus which can cause cervical cancer by the age of 16, research suggests.
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Polio cases rose by more than half worldwide last year after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria led to a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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An H.I.V. test is about to become as routine as an ultrasound for pregnant women in New Jersey.
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The number of women living with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the past two years, figures show.
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Today is the 17th Annual World AIDS Day and this year&#39;s focus is on the number of women who contract the disease. The Dublin AIDS Alliance says women are now more likely to contract the virus and are more
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Researchers now know of 15 genetic traits that make people more or less susceptible to H.I.V., including one very rare one that makes them virtually immune.
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About a quarter of the people diagnosed HIV positive so far this year are women and children. The Aids Epidemiology Group at Otago University says of the 108 HIV positive cases to the end of September, 23 were women and four were children.
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More than a quarter of U.S. girls  and women ages 14 to 59 are infected with the sexually  transmitted human wart virus, which causes most cases of  cervical cancer, U.S. health officials estimated on Tuesday.
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Protecting the rights of women is a matter of fairness, social stability and public health. Improving the overall societal treatment of women and girls is one way to control the AIDS epidemic worldwide.