HIV rate for gay men rises, CDC says
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A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says new HIV and AIDS diagnoses rose 11 percent among homosexual and bisexual men from 2000 to 2003, increasing
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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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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - The number of South  Africans carrying the virus that causes AIDS rose in 2003 but  the rate of infection especially among teenagers was  stabilizing, the government said in a report released Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Independent of cigarette smoking, infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is associated with an elevated risk for developing lung cancer, a study shows.
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The number of people in Scotland diagnosed with HIV has risen to the highest quarterly total on record. Figures for July to September this year show 105 people were found to have the virus, which can lead to Aids.
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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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An "increasing pool" of people in the UK are living with HIV and Aids, official statistics show.
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In 2003, the rate of new AIDS cases for black women was 20 times that of white women and five times greater than the infection rate for Latinas, according to a CDC report.
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Smokers may be at greater risk of HIV infection compared with non-smokers, research suggests.
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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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Three months into the District's HIV campaign, almost 3 percent of more than 7,000 people tested at community health sites have been found to be positive for the virus -- more than double the national rate.
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Independent of cigarette  smoking, infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is  associated with an elevated risk for developing lung cancer, a  study shows.
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THE number of Scots diagnosed with HIV has risen to the highest quarterly total on record, according to figures published yesterday.
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The number of sexually transmitted  chlamydia infections reported in the United States rose more  than 5 percent last year, the Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention said on Monday.
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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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HIV (human immunodeficiency infection) tends to spread among women at a far greater speed than among men, a new report reveals. The &quot;feminization&quot; of AIDS appears to reflect a maturing of the epidemic, said
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The number of newly diagnosed HIV infections in gay and bisexual men has risen in many US states, according to a federal study on Wednesday which stoked concerns AIDS may be poised for a resurgence in the country.