India to Step Up AIDS Fight, Launch Media Campaign
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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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Activists handed out condoms to passers-by and pamphlets urging people not to inject drugs, challenging conservative social mores in Asia as the region marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday with vows to fight harder to halt the disease&#39;s spread.
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African television and radio   stations are planning an on-air campaign to build hope in the   face of the AIDS pandemic, in a bid to raise spirits on the   worst-hit continent where millions have died from the disease.
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Singapore has formed a national policy committee to combat the rise of HIV cases, local media reported Monday.
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AIDS-stricken Southern African nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on Tuesday.
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Media in the Middle East and North Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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Media in the Middle East and North  Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to  help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N.  Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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India, home to the world's second-largest HIV population after South Africa, began its first ever human trials of a new vaccine against the deadly virus Monday, the health minister said.
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A group of popular American jazz artists will perform in India next month as part of a U.S. State Department-supported campaign to combat HIV and AIDS, an embassy official said.
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India health officials are alarmed by growing HIV/Aids infection rates in two key northern states.
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South Africa will unveil a new plan aimed at fighting its HIV/AIDS crisis on Friday, seeking to calm bitter debate and revamp policies that have thus far done little to stop the epidemic.
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South Africa will unveil a new plan  aimed at fighting its HIV/AIDS crisis on Friday, seeking to  calm bitter debate and revamp policies that have thus far done  little to stop the epidemic.
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India is to appoint private consultants to determine how many of its people are infected with the Aids virus.
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The Global Coalition for Women and AIDS and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS marked World Human Rights Day on Friday with campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV.
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[India News]: Pune/ New Delhi, Dec 2 : After the US, Europe, Africa and South America, India is also going to start human trials of an HIV vaccine, the Pune-based National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) said today.
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India, home to the world's second largest HIV population after South Africa, is set to begin human trials of a new vaccine against the virus in January, a research institute said Tuesday.
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The United Nations hopes that a high-level meeting on AIDS starting Wednesday will bring a surge of new funding to fight the disease, after a report warned that the epidemic continues to spread and &#36;20 billion will be needed each year to fight it by 2008.