India alarm over HIV spread
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India health officials are alarmed by growing HIV/Aids infection rates in two key northern states.
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India's prime minister vowed on  Thursday to step up government efforts to fight HIV/AIDS as top  media firms pledged to start a campaign against the disease in  the country with the world's second-highest number of  infections.
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The UN sounded the alarm of bad things to come as it prepared to sponsor events around the world on Dec. 1 to raise awareness about the unrelenting spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.
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A potential water shortage and the spread of HIV infections pose some of the biggest risks to India's economic future, the country's finance minister said Sunday as business executives from around the world discussed the opportunities and challenges facing its booming economy.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an HIV antiretroviral drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to new concerns about the drug&#39;s testing and effect on pregnant women.
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BRITAIN is &quot;in the grip of a serious HIV epidemic&quot; as the number of people suffering from the infection continues to soar, new figures showed today.
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Indian health authorities have found at least 278 blood donors to be HIV-positive in the northeast state of Tripura, fueling fears of infected blood supplies.
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Eighteen impoverished Indians with AIDS died in one district in western India in the last two months because the nearest state supply of free drugs is hundreds of kilometers away, an HIV advocacy group said on Tuesday.
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Officials in India's Andhra Pradesh state say an HIV test will soon be compulsory before marriage.
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India must get on top of its HIV  epidemic by next year or risk seeing it spiral out of control,  the man who controls the richest private anti-AIDS fund in the  country and a senior United Nations official warned.
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Some HIV/AIDS treatment groups have expressed &quot;alarm&quot; about a possible backlash against the use of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine among pregnant women to reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission because of a recent series of Associated
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Estimates for the number of people in India with the HIV/Aids figures could be greatly exaggerated, a leading Aids worker says.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on  Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health  workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by  handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried that news reports about an aids drug may prompt some governments to ban the medication.
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NEW DELHI - India has the world's largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures.   "I don't believe in the official statistics...
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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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India has fewer than 2.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS, a senior health official said on Wednesday, nearly 60 percent lower than the 5.7 million estimated by the United Nations.