Asia-Pacific Region Risks &#39;AIDS Crisis&#39;, UNAIDS Says
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The Asia-Pacific region risks an &quot;AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa&#39;s&quot; unless national governments and regional institutions &quot;step up&quot; efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Kathleen Cravero said on Wednesday in Manila
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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in south and  southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed  and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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Global AIDS funding needs to be quadrupled to fight the epidemic's spread in the developing world, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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A top U.N. official urged countries in Asia on Thursday to deal squarely and bravely with HIV/AIDS, which he said was being driven dangerously underground because of stigma and conservative attitudes.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Sept. 20, 2004 - The spread of HIV/AIDS is fueling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next 20 years, the UN warned Monday.
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GENEVA UN officials are warning that diseases could begin taking hold of tsunami-affected areas &quot;in the next few days.&quot;.
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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.
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Asia marked World Aids Day Wednesday with parades, stark warnings and alarming new data about the spread of the HIV virus which the United Nations warns threatens millions worldwide.
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30 December 2004 - With the United Nations health agency warning that up to 5 million people in Southeast Asia are without basic services after Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today chaired a top level emergency meeting to
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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.
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ROME : The bird flu epidemic in Asia is a &quot;crisis of global importance&quot; and the virus is unlikely to be eradicated soon, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) warned.
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Aids is spreading in quite different ways in different parts of the world - making it harder to treat and prevent infection - according to the annual UN report on the disease published yesterday.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in south and southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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AIDS experts yesterday issued chilling warnings that India, China and Russia were on the brink of epidemics to parallel those in Africa.
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SINGAPORE Singapore is facing an &quot;alarming AIDS epidemic,&quot; with gay men&#39;s unsafe sexual practices the biggest cause of concern, the government has warned.
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&quot;Today the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female,&quot; said Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS. &quot;We will not be able to stop this epidemic unless we put women at the heart of the response to AIDS.