CDC Backs HIV Test for All
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Recommending that all Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 be routinely tested for HIV, officials at the Centers for Disease Control say screening would help stop the virus' spread.
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The department of state for Health and Social Welfare recently signed a total grant agreement of over US$ 19 million for malaria and HIV/Aids.
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Dec. 1, 2004 -- Minorities remain vastly more vulnerable than whites to HIV and AIDS, according to a new CDC report released Wednesday.
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China has approved human testing of a domestically developed Aids vaccine and pledged to speed up approvals of new drugs to fight the disease.
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All adolescents and adults should be tested routinely for HIV infection in hospitals, clinics, and doctors' offices no matter the reason for their visit, federal officials said today, signaling a radical shift in the public health approach to the 25 year-old epidemic.
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Routine, universal testing for the AIDS virus as recommended by a federal agency will likely cost the United States $900 million, but will pay off in terms of lives and money, experts said on Wednesday.
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African American men are nearly seven times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white men, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday.
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The key genes which lead the body's fight against HIV infection have been pinpointed by scientists.
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A committee in the Indian state of Maharashtra provisionally approves compulsory HIV tests before marriage.
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WASHINGTON - A National Institutes of Health official said Tuesday that an AIDS drug at the center of a controversial federal report has prevented thousands of infants from getting HIV.
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Rapid HIV tests lead to more  people getting tested and receiving their results, according to  a study by the US Department of Veterans Affairs presented at  the 16th International AIDS Conference.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey would become the first state to require both pregnant women and newborns to be tested for HIV under a proposal introduced by the Senate president.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- HIV testing will soon become part of routine prenatal care and be required for some newborns in New Jersey under a new law that supporters say is putting the state in the forefront of the national fight against HIV transmission to babies.
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The first test to screen potential blood donors for a tropical disease that has stealthily infected as many as 100,000 Hispanic immigrants gained federal approval Wednesday.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- A generation ago, one in every 100 units of donated blood in the United States passed HIV or the hepatitis C virus to an unknowing recipient.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - An experimental vaccine  reduced the presence of the HIV virus by at least 80 percent in  a Brazilian study of 18 infected patients released in the  journal Nature Medicine.
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In an effort to reduce the incidence of AIDS in Japan, some public health centers have recently adopted a quick HIV testing regime that officials hope will be an effective tool for early stage detection and containment of the disease.