Topic: Australia
Elton John has lashed out at those who continue to stigmatise AIDS as "fascists and idiots", and called on governments to keep funding the fight against the disease.John, in Sydney to mark World AIDS Day, said the battle was being won but ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday.A study by Canadian scientists found that South ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Australia's early and widespread use of clean-needle programs seems to have kept HIV rates among injection-drug users in check over the long term, according to a study.In 1986, several years after HIV and AIDS came to widespread ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - British backpackers holidaying in Australia are returning home with much more than a suntan, and could be driving the spread Down Under of sexually transmitted diseases with their risky behavior, a study has found.A survey of more than 1,000 ...
Traffic accidents, suicide and violence, as well as AIDS and tuberculosis are among the leading causes of early death among the world's under-24s, according to a paper published on Friday in The Lancet.Epidemiologists pored over data from the 2.6 million deaths that ...
GONORRHOEA is becoming dangerously antibiotic-resistant. But following recent resistance to the quinolone family of antibiotics in the US, UK and Australia, authorities in these countries now recommend cephalosporins, the only option besides quinolones. In the latest setback, quinolone resistance seems to have ...
Australia's resources boom is contributing to a rise in HIV infections in the nation as cashed-up miners contract the disease during trips to Asia and Papua New Guinea, an HIV support group said Wednesday.The rate of infection of the human immunodeficiency virus ...
Did you know that games can be more than murder simulators? RePlay: Finding Zoe was one winner, from the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women in Children in Canada. Central from the Inspire Foundation in Australia is built to help teens ...
Australia Prime Minister John Howard has come under fire from local and international AIDS researchers for proposing that HIV-positive people be banned from moving to the country. " Overall, 12-14% of new HIV diagnoses in Australia are in people from high prevalence ...
Australia should shut its door to immigrants who are HIV-positive or have communicable diseases such as tuberculosis when regulations are reviewed this month, Prime Minister John Howard reiterated Friday.Howard said last month he opposed HIV-positive people being allowed to immigrate to Australia, ...
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