New Jersey targets HIV transmissions
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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 alarming prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C infection among inmates is a health issue that affects all Canadians and requires the country&#39;s prisons to immediately adopt needle exchange programs, advocacy groups said yesterday.
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Burlington County&#39;s share of the more than 340,000 doses of flu vaccine that will be sent to New Jersey by the end of the year will be distributed to private physicians throughout the county, health officials said.
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The District Health Department sought to assure residents yesterday about the safety and quality of hundreds of thousands of condoms distributed as part of the city's effort to fight HIV/AIDS.
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Researchers have shown that it may be possible to block male to female HIV transmission in heterosexual intercourse and have identified the target for blocking that transmission, according to an article from the Oct.
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About half of all students who attend public high schools in New York City are sexually active, and 25% engage in sexual behavior that puts them at high risk of contracting HIV, Newsday reports.
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Average citizens need to prepare for the influenza pandemic that public health officials have been warning is overdue, New Jersey's top health officials said Tuesday in announcing a public awareness campaign.
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ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan said risky behaviours, socio-economic vulnerabilities like poverty and illiteracy and lack of effective use of resources highlights the need to act aggressively to limit the spread of AIDS/HIV in Pakistan.
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A "morning after" treatment for the AIDS virus can help prevent infection after a rape, contact with a contaminated needle or even a night of passion without a condom, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - A new survey of the first US  community in which heterosexual sex was shown to be the main  way HIV was transmitted has found that although prevention  programs may have helped, infection rates remain high.
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Central China&#39;s Hunan Province has launched a project to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission from mother to baby in six state-level AIDS prevention pilot areas, as the number of such infections is increasing.
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Blacks continue to become infected with HIV and die of AIDS more often than the general population, and representatives of Marion County health organizations said Wednesday they will collaborate more to address that problem.
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TRENTON, N.J.  - New Jersey, home to scores of top  drug companies, plans to spend $380 million on stem cell  research to stay in the forefront of the politically sensitive  field, its acting governor said on Tuesday.
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Women using a microbicide to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus become infected more often than those in a control group. In Sex Drive Daily.
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A particularly serious form of the  sexually transmitted bacterial disease syphilis has been  detected in gay and bisexual U.S. men infected with the AIDS  virus, federal health officials reported on Thursday.
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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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A rare sexually transmitted disease that can scar the genitals has been found in two patients in New York, and the strain is the same as that recently detected in Europe, the city's health commissioner said Wednesday.