HIV hounds young women
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Mumbai, Nov. 24: The number of women infected with HIV has gone up alarmingly in all parts of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increase in east Asia, followed by eastern Europe and central
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Condoms are very much in style as a  fashion accessory at the International AIDS Conference in  Toronto, showing up on strait-laced men, shy teenagers and  African grandmothers.
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About a quarter of the people diagnosed HIV positive so far this year are women and children. The Aids Epidemiology Group at Otago University says of the 108 HIV positive cases to the end of September, 23 were women and four were children.
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Beijing authorities adopted measures to prevent young people from becoming infected with HIV, reported China Daily on Thursday. According to statistics provided by the Beijing
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AIDS advocates and health workers on Wednesday marked World AIDS Day by focusing on gender inequalities that can lead to an increased risk of HIV infection among women and girls, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (AP/Long Island Newsday, 12/1).
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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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With the rates of women and girls living with HIV/AIDS climbing sharply worldwide, public-health experts and activists this week urged policymakers to go beyond the ABCs of AIDS prevention
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Any effort to battle the AIDS epidemic must focus on changing the fate of women by educating them, helping them own property and giving
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Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infections are on the rise among Singaporean teenagers as a result of promiscuity and disregard for safe-sex practices.
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HIV can dodge destruction by powerful antiretroviral drugs by hiding out in the testicles, scientists say.
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LAST week 600 youths who pledged to abstain from sex till marriage gathered in Kampala for a convention. This is a good development because it popularises one of the key pillars in fighting AIDS.
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Women and girls are the focus of today&#39;s World AIDS Day in part because the number of women with HIV globally has increased to comprise nearly 50 percent of adults living with the disease
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Poverty, unemployment and other  socioeconomic factors are helping to fuel a growing HIV problem  among black women, a U.S. study released on Thursday suggests.
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United Nations officials last week led the world marking the 17th annual World AIDS Day by calling for societies to enable women to protect themselves at a time when nearly half of the 37.2 million people infected are female.
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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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Women using a microbicide to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus become infected more often than those in a control group. In Sex Drive Daily.
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&quot;We urgently need a long-term approach to the HIV epidemic that addresses the specific needs of women. Women In developing countries are increasingly more vulnerable than men to HIV and AIDS.