HIV/AIDS : Government&#39;s Pre-occupation
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Anti-retroviral drugs are expected to drop from CFA 15,000 per month to CFA 3,000 in October. The Minister of Public Health, Urbain Olanguena Awono, last Friday faced the press within the framework of government communication policy.
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There are now 53,000 adults living with HIV and Aids in the UK, over a quarter of whom remain unaware of their infection. These figures will be presented to the Health Protection Agencyâs Board tomorrow (Friday) in the agencyâs annual report on HIV.
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HIV is the fastest growing serious health condition in England and Wales, according to a United Nations report into the Aids epidemic.
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WASHINGTON -- Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top US health officials were warned that research in Uganda on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported severe reactions, including deaths, government documents show.
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People with HIV and Aids can expect their chances of insuring their lives to improve with changes in the life insurance industry&#39;s attitude towards the illness.
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SINGAPORE : The Health Ministry is reviewing the requirements for pregnant women to be screened for HIV/AIDs, and may make it compulsory.
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Women and girls should be the focal point of the global war against HIV/AIDS, foreign and local officials said here on Friday. &quot;One of the objects most affected by HIV/AIDS is
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JAMAICA&#39;S EFFORTS to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic is expected to be strengthened significantly with the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) establishing an office here.
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Scientists working in South Africa say they have identified a gene that controls the human body&#39;s response to HIV. The researchers say the gene determines the body&#39;s response to infections.
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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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What is the weakest, but most important sector of China&#39;s HIV/AIDS prevention and control network? One answer to the question, many people believe, is the awareness of officials at various levels.
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Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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Singapore hospitals have begun testing pregnant women for HIV following a directive from the government concerned about the rising number of AIDS cases, the Ministry of Health said.
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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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The number of people living with HIV/Aids in India is around half of previous official estimates, new figures say.
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The world&#39;s two most populous nations have promised to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates released on Friday.