Is HIV a time bomb under the mining industry?
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From Africa to Russia, from Peru to China, mining companies face a problem: the workers who haul up the earth's riches are coming down with AIDS, and it is hampering operations at a time of booming demand for minerals.
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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus infection is growing more rapidly in women than in men in almost every part of the world, according to a new report.
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More women and children are taking the impact of HIV/AIDS in the world as the disease affects millions in the work force yearly, a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) indicated.
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Contact with alcohol makes cells in the mouth more susceptible to HIV during oral sex, a recent study has found. A team of researchers from UCLA announced their finding in the Dec. 1, 2004, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
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The rate of new HIV and Aids infections appears to have peaked in KwaZulu-Natal, a leading researcher in the field has said. Professor Alan Whiteside, the head of the Health, Economics and HIV and Aids Division
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Comment is free: Johnjoe McFadden: Our resistance to an epidemic 3m years ago may have exposed us to the risk of HIV today.
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HIV infections are rising in  black men and women living in developed nations that have  otherwise made strides against the disease, said participants  at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
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Smoking, already linked to several   illnesses, may also increase the risk of infection with HIV,   the virus that causes AIDS, researchers said on Thursday.
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Anti-retroviral drugs have been so effective at treating HIV that researchers are now exploring whether they can perform double duty
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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More than a million new jobs are being lost every year to HIV-AIDS, the International Labour Organization reveals.
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Health experts say combining TB and HIV testing and treatment could save the lives of up to 500,000 HIV positive Africans a year. The World Health Organization and UNAids issued the call to a health conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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People on HIV drug Viracept are being warned over a possible contamination with cancer-causing chemicals.
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Goverment policies have been blamed for fuelling discrimination against people with HIV.
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The numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in China and India are reaching crisis proportions and could threaten the world economy, a UN expert says.
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AIDS. It killed roughly 3 million people last year, most of them poor, and most of them in Africa. Between 34 and 42 million people are living with HIV.
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Scientists discover the first definitive evidence that HIV made the jump from chimpanzees to people in the forests of Cameroon