HIV epidemic 'is getting worse'
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Sub-Saharan Africa is still bearing the brunt of the HIV/Aids epidemic, a UNAids report reveals.
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A new UN report, marking Wednesday's World AIDS day, estimates that 5 million people this year got HIV.
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Comment is free: Johnjoe McFadden: Our resistance to an epidemic 3m years ago may have exposed us to the risk of HIV today.
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The numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in China and India are reaching crisis proportions and could threaten the world economy, a UN expert says.
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HIV infection is rising in every region  of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and  Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the  fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Britain&#39;s Health Protection Agency reports the number of HIV infections has skyrocketed, largely due to immigrants, Sky News said Thursday.
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Singapore is facing a new AIDS epidemic, with the country&#39;s gay community being blamed by the conservative government. According to the Reuters news agency, new cases of HIV could hit more than 1,000 a year in the very near future.
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With almost 25 million Africans infected, 2.8 million new infections last year and 2.1 million deaths, the statistics are as grim as ever as Africa readies for World AIDS Day on December 1.
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More than a million new jobs are being lost every year to HIV/Aids, the International Labour Organization reveals.
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Seven African countries are experiencing a decline in the prevalence of HIV infection among young, urban adults, finally reaping the benefit of AIDS prevention and treatment, the United Nations said yesterday in its annual report on the global epidemic.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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Indonesia faces a growing AIDS problem -- particularly among drug users and prostitutes -- while a recent survey shows two percent of the Papua population infected with HIV, the World Health Organization said on Saturday.
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A rapid increase in HIV/Aids cases in South Africa could be linked to a fall in the unemployment rate as infected people withdrew from the labour force, the SA Reserve Bank said yesterday.
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Famine in Africa could worsen  unless action is taken to tackle the continent's HIV/AIDS  epidemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has urged people to take more responsibility for their behaviour to reduce the rate of HIV/AIDS infections.
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Statistics for AIDS in Africa are so overwhelmingly depressing they make your eye sockets throb. The United Nations is constantly reporting things like: â¢ Seventy percent of all people on Earth who are HIV-positive live in the region.
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Not enough resources are being allocated to deal with the rise in sex infections  a specialist says.