HIV figures reach record number
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The number of people in Scotland diagnosed with HIV rises to the highest quarterly total on record.
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In 1988, when World AIDS Day began, 10 million people worldwide were living with AIDS. Today, nearly 40 million men, women and children are HIV positive.
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The number of women infected with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the last two years as the global AIDS epidemic continues to expand, the United Nations said yesterday.
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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus  infection is growing more rapidly in women  than in men in almost every part of the world, according to a new report.
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India now has the largest number of AIDS infections as the spread of the disease shows no sign of letting up a quarter-century into an epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives, the U.N. reported Tuesday.
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BRITAIN is &quot;in the grip of a serious HIV epidemic&quot; as the number of people suffering from the infection continues to soar, new figures showed today.
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New HIV infections among homosexual men are on the rise in Hong Kong and a government consultant warned on Wednesday that prevalence of the disease in this group could hit 30 percent by 2020 if nothing is done.
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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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Word of mouth research suggest HIV figures in Uganda could be three times bigger than previous estimates.
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India says it will appoint private consultants to determine the number of people infected with the AIDS virus. The Indian government estimates the number at 5.1 million, the second most in the world after South Africa.
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As many as 7,000 babies are born HIV-positive in Lesotho every year -- more than double the number two years ago, according to a joint report by the government and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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The number of reported HIV/AIDS cases  in China has grown by nearly 30 per cent this year, state media  said on Wednesday, warning the virus seemed to be spreading  from high-risk groups to the general public.
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An "increasing pool" of people in the UK are living with HIV and Aids, official statistics show.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.
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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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Women make up nearly half of the 37.2  million adults living with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa the  proportion rises to almost 60 percent, according to a UN report  released on Tuesday.
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Officials figures on HIV/Aids in China reveal a 30% increase in reported cases since last year.