World leaders tackle Aids fight
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Fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum.
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ISLAMABAD, December 01 (Online): World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe on 1 December to review the progress made in the battle against the epidemic, and brings into focus remaining challenges.
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Two controversies flared on World AIDS Day as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence to avoid infection and British leader Tony Blair castigated religious bans on condoms.
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The international community on Wednesday turned the spotlight on the devastating and increasing impact of AIDS on women and girls to mark World AIDS Day.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- The world's leading industrialized nations yesterday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, mainly in Africa, but human rights groups termed it an insufficient commitment and part of a pattern of unfulfilled promises.
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Health ministers and experts from across Europe are meeting in Lithuania to discuss efforts to prevent an epidemic of HIV/Aids. They will debate an EU report which says rates of new infections in Russia and ...
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World AIDS Day today aims to celebrate progress made against the global epidemic that has killed 30 million in two decades and left 40 million more infected.
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The head of the UN AIDS program says HIV epidemics in some of the world&#39;s most populous countries are close to a turning point.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques  Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS  Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number of  patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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December 1 is World Aids Day. Global attention is focused on women and girls with the day&#39;s theme: &quot;Women, Girls, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)&quot;.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Friday a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa and restated broader promises to double development spending.
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Governments must do more to ensure women and girls get treatment for HIV/AIDS, the United Nations health agency said Tuesday, the eve of World AIDS Day.
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December 1 marks World AIDS day, an international effort to spread awareness about the rapidly spreading HIV and AIDS epidemic and to promote preventive measures.
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The world's two most populous nations  promised on Wednesday 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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African leaders call for more funds to fight the world's deadliest diseases - Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more efforts and measures to protect people from blood contamination and shortage in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-born diseases.
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World AIDS Day was marked around the globe Friday by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions ...Comment