New Jersey Targets HIV Transmissions
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TRENTON, N.J. -- HIV testing will soon become part of routine prenatal care and be required for some newborns in New Jersey under a new law that supporters say is putting the state in the forefront of the national fight against HIV transmission to babies.
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Two New Yorkers have been diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease that is spreading among gay and bisexual men in Europe, the city health commissioner said on Wednesday.
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New York's health department is reorganizing its AIDS program to encourage more aggressive collection of information about the disease.
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In New York City, there has been a sharp increase in new infections for men under 30 who have sex with men.
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THURSDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Even though rates of AIDS are increasing among Hispanics in Los Angeles County, Calif., few primary care health providers there are offering HIV testing or safe sex counseling to Hispanic patients, a new study finds.
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In an effort to reduce the incidence of AIDS in Japan, some public health centers have recently adopted a quick HIV testing regime that officials hope will be an effective tool for early stage detection and containment of the disease.
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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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The government recommended for the first time Thursday that people exposed to the AIDS virus from rapes, accidents or occasional drug use or unsafe sex receive drug cocktails that can keep them from becoming infected.
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A particularly serious form of the  sexually transmitted bacterial disease syphilis has been  detected in gay and bisexual U.S. men infected with the AIDS  virus, federal health officials reported on Thursday.
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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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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A harmless version of a major killer, the HIV virus, is being used to hunt down malignant melanoma cancer cells in mice, researchers say.
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THE Ministry of Health has collaborated with the Sandals resort chain to install condom-dispensing machines at its properties across the island, as government continues to put measures in place to fight HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs
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A "morning after" treatment for the  AIDS virus can help prevent infection after a rape, contact  with a contaminated needle or even a night of passion without a  condom, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say.
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NEW YORK  - A new survey of the first US  community in which heterosexual sex was shown to be the main  way HIV was transmitted has found that although prevention  programs may have helped, infection rates remain high.
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US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson says programs supported by his agency to serve HIV-infected women are &quot;making a difference.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A Web site that enables people with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to send anonymous email warnings to their partners could help slow a rise in new infections, a New York health official said.