Topic: Europe
Italy may be hosting a major conference on AIDS this week in Rome but the government has stopped paying contributions for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, participants at the meeting complained on Wednesday.Italy failed to register any high-level official to take ...
Denmark has registered a doubling of cases of the venereal disease chlamydia over the past decade, Danish health officials said Thursday, saying the rise was very worrying."In 2000 there were 15,000 registered cases (of chlamydia), and in 2009 the number had increased ...
Russia and the ex-Soviet bloc need to step up their HIV prevention programmes to stop its rapid spread, but stigma and domestic drug policies are hindering progress, UN representatives said Friday.As the world prepares to mark the 30-year anniversary of the first ...
More must be done to stem HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, as infections continue to spiral in nations in the region, notably Russia, experts warned on Friday."Western Europe, including southern states like Portugal that used to cause a lot of worry on HIV ...
A star-studded AIDS fundraising gala on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival raised a record-breaking seven million euros (over $10 million), organisers said Friday.Thursday night's event for the American AIDS research foundation amFAR, attended by Monaco's Prince Albert II and his ...
Vienna is gearing up to welcome tens of thousands of revellers to its world famous Life Ball this weekend, one of the world's biggest AIDS charity events, with Janet Jackson and Bill Clinton in the star line-up.While last year's mega-party in front ...
African ministers on Friday hailed a lowering of mother-to-child HIV transmission rates as a result of treatment at a meeting in Rome on Friday, a day after a study found key benefits from early therapy."The vertical transmission of the virus from mother ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the former head of MTV Networks International, Bill Roedy drew on his military career to build a youth entertainment business across 165 countries with an audience of millions -- and he had fun along the way.He says ...
Health officials in Britain announced on Sunday that gay men will soon be allowed to donate blood for the first timeHealth officials in Britain announced on Sunday that gay men will soon be allowed to donate blood for the first time. There's ...
British scouts are giving their age-old motto "be prepared" a new twist with the launch Tuesday of sex education classes in a bid to help tackle the country's high rates of sexually transmitted diseases.The Scout Association is adding learning about the birds ...
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