Medical "brain drain" hindering AIDS battle
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The biggest challenge in the global fight against AIDS is no longer money for drug research and treatment but the lack of local health services in nations worst-hit by the disease, the World Bank said on Monday.
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
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In a country plagued by AIDS, a doctor in this remote industrial area of Taung, South Africa, is quietly providing life-prolonging drugs and hope for people who are HIV-positive.
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A critical global shortage of health workers is getting worse, prompting a &quot;fatal migration&quot; of desperately needed doctors and nurses from poor countries
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The AIDS case that alarmed health officials in New York last week illustrates the enormous difficulty of promoting and sustaining changes in sexual behavior.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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Despite a spurt in international spending against AIDS, the epidemic will claim more than 3 million lives this year and is threatening the world&#39;s most populous nations, global health authorities warned Tuesday.
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DROWNING IN DEBT: African nations say debt incurred by past generations is keeping them poor and unable to cope with pressing needs, such as the AIDS epidemic.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China are working on an AIDS vaccine to protect against three variants of HIV sweeping across south and west China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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KWANCOLOSI, South Africa -- A barefoot traditional healer entered her thatched-roof hut in this Zulu village, trailed by Randall L. Tobias, the Bush administration's global AIDS coordinator. Tobias respectfully slipped off his tasseled, British-made loafers as he crossed the threshold.
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A series of articles critical of past trials of an important AIDS drug has created a furor in Africa, causing many public health experts to worry that some countries will stop using
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Health experts meeting in Ethiopia say combined efforts to fight the HIV virus and tuberculosis could save the lives of up to a half-million Africans every year.
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As AIDS patients live longer they can experience a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of the disease as chronic and manageable.
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Doctors and patients have overcome huge medical hurdles in liver transplantation, but they still face an ethical abyss, created largely by organ shortages.
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Small victories are being won against  the AIDS virus, experts said on Wednesday as a report showed  that 10 times more people in Africa are getting life-saving HIV  drugs than did three years ago, but overall most people who  need treatment are still not getting it.
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A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.