Reports show less HIV than estimated
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International AIDS specialists and Indian health officials revealed new data showing that India has 2.5 million people infected with HIV, about half the previous estimate by world health officials. But the Indian government said it still plans to move aggressively to fight the disease, pledging $1.95 billion for a new round of its AIDS control program ...
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The number of people living  with HIV in India could be lower than government estimates,  research published in a medical journal said, but the United  Nations warned against drawing "hasty conclusions."
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NEW YORK  - Mistaken assumptions about black sexuality are finding their way into scientific research on the spread of HIV, and this could do more to fuel risky behavior than prevent it, authors of a new commentary warn.
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Nearly half of the 37 million HIV-positive adults ages 15 to 49 worldwide are women, and the number of HIV-positive women in all regions of the world has been increasing over the past two years, according to a report released on Tuesday by UNAIDS and the
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A record 7,000 people were diagnosed with HIV last year, according to figures released yesterday. The number of new cases of the virus that causes Aids has grown by around
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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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NEW YORK  - It takes more than just passing along good information to stop the spread of HIV, a new US-government-backed study on HIV/AIDS prevention programs has found.
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Temporary increases in HIV levels do not generally mean a drug losing its effectiveness, research finds.
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As many as 5.5 million people could be infected with HIV each year in India by 2033 if urgent steps aren&#39;t taken immediately to prevent the disease&#39;s spread, according to a World Bank report released Friday. Currently, there are about 5 million HIV ...
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African American men are nearly seven times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white men, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday.
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ATLANTA -- In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused its anti-AIDS efforts on outwardly healthy people who did not realize they had HIV -- about one-fourth of those infected.
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There are 14,300 adults living in the UK who are unaware that they are carrying the HIV/Aids virus, according to the shock findings of a Health Protection Agency (HPA) report.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - An experimental vaccine  reduced the presence of the HIV virus by at least 80 percent in  a Brazilian study of 18 infected patients released in the  journal Nature Medicine.
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Surveillance for the HIV virus is weak in most of the world and prevention and treatment programs often fail to reach high-risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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ALMOST 5million people have been infected with HIV this year, the highest incidence in a single year, according to a report published yesterday.
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Johannesburg - The Aids pandemic in South Africa, which has affected 28% of the population, is stabilising, according to the latest statistics.
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NEW YORK  - Less that 0.1 percent of blood and tissue donors in the United States had positive screening tests for HIV between 2000 and 2002, according to a new study. And the rate of hepatitis C virus was just over 1 percent.