Topic: Asia
A Chinese man has filed a lawsuit alleging he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in what state media on Tuesday called the nation's first such discrimination case. The plaintiff, whose identity was not revealed, filed the suit against the ...
Chinese AIDS activist who caught the virus as a boy is detained by police, colleagues sayPolice in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights of those with the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People infected with hepatitis B virus are around twice as likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, researchers reported on Tuesday. Hepatitis B was already known to cause liver cancer and some scientists had suspected it might cause lymphoma, too. The ...
China, India and other fast-growing economies should start to contribute to the world's war chest to fight AIDS, the head of the Global Fund said on Friday as the 18th world AIDS conference wound down. Speaking amid deepening concern about donations from ...
Official indifference, stigma and a blinkered reflex to criminalise drug addicts have turned Eastern Europe and Central Asia into the region where HIV is spreading fastest, the world AIDS forum heard. The six-day forum staged a series of workshops and seminars where ...
The criminalisation of sex workers, drug users, and men who have sex with men were highlighted as major sources of concern in the fight against HIV in Asia, at the world AIDS conference here Wednesday. Twenty-five countries in the Asia-Pacific region still ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS groups on Tuesday accused the United States of violating the health rights of millions of poor people around the world through trade policies that make it harder for them to get life-saving drugs. A coalition that includes Health ...
Nowhere in the world is the HIV virus spreading faster than in eastern Europe and Central Asia, where more than 80 percent of those infected are under 30 years old, UNICEF said Monday. "Eastern Europe and Central Asia are the only parts ...
A migrant worker seriously injured in a wage dispute in China said Friday that a hospital had refused to treat her after doctors found out she was HIV-positive. Li Na, 37, told AFP she was beaten up Monday when she and fellow ...
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit will be in Vienna this weekend for an AIDS gala and the opening of a Youth Pavilion at the AIDS 2010 conference, organisers said Thursday. The princess will one of the guests of honour at a special gala ...
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