For some, AIDS evolving into national security threat
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Blog: A U.N. official charged with battling the spread of AIDS thinks that some developed countries fail to recognize the impact of a disease that's more than 25 years old.
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Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate.
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It's an Achilles' heel of HIV therapy: The AIDS virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, despite today's best medicines.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas Â arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency Â may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.
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China, India and Russia are on the brink of an Africa-style Aids epidemic that could devastate the global economy and international security, the head of the UN Aids project has warned.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.
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The rise and fall of AIDS activist Li Dan and the Dongzhen School for AIDS Orphans illustrates a broader struggle: a battle by a wide assortment of citizen groups to establish civil society and influence China's government.
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No-one is immune to HIV. But this is not to say the peril is equal, for some people are at greater risk of getting infected by the Aids virus than others.
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Local health officials worry that all the education, awareness and prevention programs about HIV/AIDS aren&#39;t working since many Franklin County residents continue to have unprotected sex and are becoming infected with the virus.
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Asia-Pacific risks an AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa's unless governments across the region step up efforts to combat the spread of the disease, the United Nations is warning.
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Nearly a million Americans now have the AIDS virus and the nation&#39;s ability to keep others from becoming infected still lags despite a government pledge four years ago to &quot;break the back&quot; of the AIDS epidemic by 2005.
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Organizations say reduced funding and fading interest in AIDS is forcing them to seek other income sources, bringing concerns that HIV/AIDS patients may be shunted in the rush to expand services to other sufferers.
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The head of the United Nations&#39; AIDS program warned yesterday that India, China and Russia are &quot;perilously close to a tipping point&quot; that could turn their small, localized AIDS epidemics into
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The emergence of new and improved drugs, genetic engineering and the ancient surgical practice of circumcision are the latest weapons in the fight against AIDS, the International AIDS Society conference was told on Tuesday.
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New government estimates of the number of Americans who become infected with the AIDS virus each year are 50 percent higher than previous calculations suggested, sources said yesterday.
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The head of the United Nations' AIDS program warned that the three countries could turn their small, localized epidemics into gigantic ones capable of disrupting the world's response to the disease.