AIDS Seen Undercutting Africa&#39;s Young Democracies
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Southern Africa&#39;s AIDS crisis is undermining the region&#39;s young democracies as politicians die, voter rolls shrink and electoral shifts help to entrench ruling parties in power, a new study said on Thursday.
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A new United Nations report shows women and girls are hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Today&#39;s (Tuesday&#39;s) report says women account for 57 percent of people living with HIV -- the
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Fewer than half of South Africa's 15-year-olds will live to see their 60th birthday because of HIV/AIDS, according to a new report.
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With the AIDS crisis in its third decade in the United States, AIDS is increasingly becoming a disease of the middle-aged and elderly, thanks to better medications and fewer children and young teens becoming infected.
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China, India and Russia are on the brink of an Africa-style Aids epidemic that could devastate the global economy and international security, the head of the UN Aids project has warned.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas Â arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency Â may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal.
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Young people face an unprecedented risk of catching AIDS, in particular because they missed the first wave of safe sex campaigning about the disease a decade or more ago, the European Commission warned.
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Africa News, JOHANNESBURG - AIDS has hit sub-Saharan Africa so badly that the disease will cast a shadow over generations to come, even in countries that succeed in the battle against it, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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More infants die in sub-Saharan Africa now than a decade ago, largely because HIV/Aids has reversed advances in public health, the UN children&#39;s agency Unicef reports today.
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South African politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi has taught us a useful lesson in Kenya. On Wednesday, he admitted that he has lost two member of his family - his children, to be precise - to Aids-related complications.
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LISBON, Dec 13 (IPS) - War, AIDS, malaria, cholera and famine have  gradually turned Africa into a continent full of orphaned  children and teenagers.
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South Africa may lose the HIV battle as infection and death rates outpace treatment, Unicef warns.
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This Wednesday was the 17th Annual World AIDS Day. The theme for this yearâs event was âWomen, Girls, HIV and AIDS,â a demographic that makes up nearly half of the 39.4 million people who are infected
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party, the African National Congress, has accused the US government of treating Africans like &quot;guinea pigs&quot; by promoting the use of the anti-Aids drug nevirapine.
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South Africa has unveiled plans to halve the number of people being infected with the AIDS virus within five years by persuading youngsters to delay the start of their sex lives.