UNICEF: Arab Media Should Help Knock AIDS Taboos
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Media in the Middle East and North Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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In a movie-mad country where people are  shy about discussing sex, a Bollywood film-maker hopes to shed  some light on India's potentially disastrous HIV problem.
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HIV/Aids is fast acquiring a feminine face in African countries like Kenya, as biological vulnerability, poverty and sexual violence join to raise infection rates for young women and girls, a report from UNAids has warned.
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The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS virus as &quot;a major breakthrough.&quot;
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Libya's parliament has called for the heaviest possible punishment for those responsible for an AIDS ( news - web sites ) epidemic at a hospital in which nearly 400 children were infected, the state news agency ...
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Tuesday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, and in anticipation of this event, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization has released a report documenting the increase in the spread of AIDS worldwide.
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In a bid to increase the reach of the anti-AIDS campaign, 400-odd youngsters will board special trains and fan across the country advocating the use of condoms to avoid deadly the HIV virus, which causes AIDS.
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What does the Roman Catholic Church really think about the use of condoms to fight AIDS? It seems to depend on who is doing the talking.
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Middle Eastern bloggers tackling everything from human rights to Islam are making it harder for governments to keep their monopoly on the media. By the Associated Press.
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MUMBAI, May 14  - Moves to bring sex out of the closet in largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates, and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.
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Richard Gere has told an AIDS conference that the media &#151; from the chief executives of TV networks to the cultural icons of Hollywood and Bollywood &#151; must fight the disease by using their enormous reach into people's hearts and homes.
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A hit documentary about Al Jazeera  television drew sharp reactions this week in a rare screening  in the Arab world where the popular channel is often banned.
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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Ugandan youth have been urged to play a leading role in promoting messages of abstinence from premarital sex as a way of safeguarding themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually
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MUMBAI: A couple of days ago, the first-ever global creative meeting on HIV/Aids was held by the United Nations in New York. The event was attended by over 100 creative and programming directors from 35 media
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The Bush administration is funding sexual health projects that teach children that HIV can be contracted through sweat and tears, touching genitals can result in pregnancy, and that a 43-day-old foetus is a thinking person.
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The top UN AIDS official in Uganda is denying reports the government is pressuring his agency not to promote the use of condoms. However, heâs concerned that some people may be trying to mix facts about HIV/AIDS with ideology.