Topic: Europe

Doctors alarmed by HIV risk for European gays

Homosexual men in Europe are increasingly failing to adhere to safe sex, according to two new studies. In France, transmission of the AIDS virus "seems to be out of control" among men who have sex with men, said a paper published on ...

HIV spread "out of control" among French gay men

LONDON (Reuters) - Transmission of the AIDS virus seems to be "out of control" among gay men in France despite an overall fall in the number of new HIV cases in the country, according to a study published on Thursday. Scientists from ...

Tearful German HIV pop star escapes jail term

An HIV-positive pop star broke down in tears on Thursday after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence for infecting a former sex partner with the virus. The court in Darmstadt, western Germany, convicted 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa, a member of ...

Tearful German HIV pop star escapes jail

An HIV-positive pop star broke down in tears on Thursday after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence for infecting a former sex partner with the virus. The court in Darmstadt, western Germany, convicted 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa, a member of ...

Girl-band star escapes jail over HIV infection

DARMSTADT, Germany (Reuters) - A German pop singer who confessed to knowingly exposing two men to the risk of HIV after finding out she had the virus herself was convicted by a court on Thursday of grievous bodily harm. Nadja Benaissa, 28, ...

German pop star sentenced in HIV trial

An HIV-positive pop star who infected a former sex partner with the virus walked free Thursday after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence. The court in Darmstadt, western Germany, convicted 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa, a member of girl group No ...
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 ...

AIDS charity Life Ball raises 1.5 mln euros

Vienna's glitzy AIDS charity Life Ball last weekend raised 1.5 million euros (1.9 million dollars) for international and national HIV and AIDS projects, organisers said Thursday. This year's event on the square in front of the Austrian capital's neo-Gothic Town Hall and ...

WHO criticizes big divide in tackling HIV in Europe

VIENNA (Reuters) - Huge disparities between Western and Eastern Europe in tackling the AIDS virus mean the HIV crisis in the region is far from over, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. The U.N. health body said the rapidly rising rates ...

Is there a cure for AIDS? Forum lifts a taboo

Scientists at the world AIDS conference have discussed an idea that had become almost taboo. Can AIDS be cured? The question is being broached in gingerly fashion, given the many false dawns in the nearly three-decade-long war on AIDS. The human immunodeficiency ...
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