HIV cases double in five years
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THE number of people in Britain who have HIV is continuing to rise, with more than 7,000 new cases in the past year. Statistics from the Health Protection Agency show that 53,000 adults have
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As many as 5.5 million people could be infected with HIV each year in India by 2033 if urgent steps aren&#39;t taken immediately to prevent the disease&#39;s spread, according to a World Bank report released Friday. Currently, there are about 5 million HIV ...
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Singapore is facing a new AIDS epidemic, with the country&#39;s gay community being blamed by the conservative government. According to the Reuters news agency, new cases of HIV could hit more than 1,000 a year in the very near future.
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The number of people living with HIV/Aids in India is around half of previous official estimates, new figures say.
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The numbers of new infections of HIV and AIDS patients in Japan hit record highs in 2006, the Health Ministry said Wednesday, underscoring concerns over spreading infections.
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Shanghai&#39;s public health department has established a long-term mechanism to prevent the spread of AIDS/HIV. There are now 1,124 AIDS/HIV cases in Shanghai, with 213 reported this year.
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Nearly half of the 37 million HIV-positive adults ages 15 to 49 worldwide are women, and the number of HIV-positive women in all regions of the world has been increasing over the past two years, according to a report released on Tuesday by UNAIDS and the
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Five-million South Africans, or 11% of the population, are infected with HIV, says a report published today by the Actuarial Society of SA to coincide with World Aids Day.
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Hepatitis C among young drug users in London is reaching epidemic levels while HIV cases are &quot;worryingly high&quot;, researchers have warned.
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Singapore reported more new AIDScases in the first 10 months of this year as compared with the same period of last year. According to local press reports on Wednesday night
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New HIV infections among homosexual men are on the rise in Hong Kong and a government consultant warned on Wednesday that prevalence of the disease in this group could hit 30 percent by 2020 if nothing is done.
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With HIV rates almost doubling among teenagers and young adults since 2000, the District will emphasize prevention and education in a three-year initiative involving community groups, the public schools and strategies geared to a video- and cyber-savvy generation, city leaders said yesterday.
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More than 37% of 24-year-old pregnant women were HIV-positive last year, which constituted an increase of almost 5 percentage points since 2002&#39;s 32.
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February edition of The British Medical Journal. According to current estimates, 38 million people are now living with HIV worldwide, including 2 million children.
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Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, is projecting half a million HIV cases by 2010, and double that if preventive steps are not taken, the health minister said on Tuesday.
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By the time World Aids day has run its course an estimated 14,000 more people in the world will have become infected with HIV. Nearly 40 million people globally are living with the Aids virus
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The number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.