S. Africa launches biggest AIDS vaccine trial
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South Africa, burdened with one of the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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Nigeria&#39;s president has kicked off a mammoth effort to immunise 80 million children against polio in 23 sub-Saharan African countries, described by international health experts as &quot;the single-largest public health campaign&quot; in history to wipe out the
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An AIDS vaccine tested in a closely watched trial might have increased recipentsâ risk of becoming infected with H.I.V., researchers reported.
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TORONTO -- The Canadian government and Bill Gates yesterday announced an initiative to establish a research institute to develop an AIDS vaccine, committing up to $119 million to the project.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa The ruling party in South Africa is launching a blistering attack on US health officials, claiming Africans were treated like &quot;guinea pigs&quot; when they were sent an AIDS drug.
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A Nigerian brothel becomes the test site for a new AIDS treatment pill.
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Five-million South Africans, or 11% of the population, are infected with HIV, says a report published today by the Actuarial Society of SA to coincide with World Aids Day.
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Nigeria's president kicked off a mammoth effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African countries, described by international health experts as "the single-largest public health campaign" in history to wipe out the disease.
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The biggest polio eradication campaign ever launched in Africa kicked off simultaneously in 23 Sub-Saharan countries Friday, with the goal of immunizing 80 million children under five over the next four days, organizers said.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hundreds of senior public officials in Africa have recently started vigorous public campaigns to fight AIDS, representing a significant break from more than two decades of relative silence among those in the highest positions.
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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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South Africa is overhauling its AIDS strategy in a bid to counter the rise of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis which is proving a serious threat to those suffering HIV/AIDS, a senior official said on Thursday.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party has accused top US officials of treating Africans like guinea pigs amid questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before a US-backed
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The monarch of South Africa&#39;s KwaZulu-Natal province is in the process of having all the prospective husbands of maidens in the royal reed dance tested for HIV.
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The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has said the development of a successful HIV/AIDS vaccine will require global cooperation.
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India, home to the world's second largest HIV population after South Africa, is set to begin human trials of a new vaccine against the virus in January, a research institute said Tuesday.
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The biggest HIV/AIDS training center in sub-Saharan Africa opened in Uganda Wednesday with officials hopeful it will significantly boost the continent's ability to fight the deadly pandemic.