Topic: Asia
The total number of reported AIDS deaths in China has jumped by nearly 20,000 since an official estimate last year, state media said Monday as Beijing vowed to step up efforts to curb its spread.Deaths linked to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) ...
Not too long ago - as recently as the late 1990s- it was taboo in international development circles to even mention market forces when discussing pharmaceuticals for poor countries. Drug companies argued that poor nations, which were without question bearing the brunt ...
The Philippines on Thursday reported a sharp jump in HIV-AIDS cases which runs against a global trend of declining infection rates, with young homosexual men most at risk.There were 1,305 confirmed new HIV infections in first 10 months of the year, compared ...
The number of people infected with HIV around the world has fallen from 39.5 million to 33.2 million, a drop of 16% from last year, according to a revised estimate from two United Nations groups. The steep decline primarily reflects the improved ...
Court rules against defendant in China's first HIV employment discrimination caseA Chinese court ruled Friday against the defendant in the country's first lawsuit over employment discrimination against people who are HIV-positive, the man's lawyer said.The defendant, identified only by the nickname "Little ...
In an effort to promote safe sex in India , the BBC World Service Trust released a " Condom ringtone launched in India (August 19, 2008) Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , the "condom normalization project" aims to "break ...
China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down after pressure from authoritiesA group founded by well-known imprisoned Chinese activist Hu Jia to work with AIDS patients and orphans said Thursday it is closing down after increasing pressure from tax authorities.Beijing ...
The words HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immunity deficiency syndrome) have become synonymous on a global basis, associated with feelings of hate, fear, terror, death, and ignorance. Many questions are being asked by scientists and certain segments of the medical ...
You are an elderly woman living on a meager sustenance, on the outskirts of a town called Vijayawada. You never expected to be raising and providing for children again at this age, but your grandchildren are living with you because their parents ...
A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article by Pankaj Saini about a study that deals with angular relationship between rocks of the Aravalli and the Delhi Supergroups in India published in a previous issue. A study carried ...
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