UN boosts budget for AIDS epidemic
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which the United Nations says is now host to 37.2 million adults around the world -- by recognizing World AIDS Day in Hawai&#39;i.
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WASHINGTON -- Hoping to cement a positive part of his legacy, President Bush yesterday asked Congress to double the funding of the US global AIDS program to $30 billion over five years, which sets goals of helping support AIDS treatment of 2.5 million people.
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A new United Nations report shows women and girls are hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Today&#39;s (Tuesday&#39;s) report says women account for 57 percent of people living with HIV -- the
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The World Health Organization urged political leaders in the Western Pacific region to step up efforts to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, saying the number of infections continues to grow.
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The AIDS pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, UN agencies 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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The number of HIV-positive women has increased rapidly worldwide over the past two years, with EastAsia as the most hard-hit region, according to a new United Nations (UN) study.
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Sweden has announced a new contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to an urgent appeal from former President Nelson Mandela and rock star Bono, according to the government news agency, BuaNews.
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President Bush will propose &#36;3.2 billion for next year to combat the spread of AIDS globally, one of the few increases in what is expected to be a tight foreign aid budget, administration and congressional sources said on Friday.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is still bearing the brunt of the HIV/Aids epidemic, a UNAids report reveals.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques  Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS  on Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number  of patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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The United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) report released in November 2004 indicated that there were 5.1 million people suffering from HIV/AIDS in India.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday praised China&#39;s role in combating HIV/AIDS, saying that the world is counting on China to meet Millennium Development Goals, which include halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015, Agence France-Presse
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A major UN report on world poverty calls for a huge increase in development aid to the poorest countries.
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Attendees of the AIDS Vaccine &#39;04 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday called for increased global financial support for the development of HIV vaccines, saying as much as $18 billion will be needed over the next decade for vaccine research.
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US global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias earlier this week gave developed countries a September extension to contribute US $243 million to fulfil their pledges to the Global AIDS Fund.