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Taxes could fill AIDS funding crunch: U.N.

2011-12-07T07:30:13Z

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The fight against AIDS risks being set back years by a global financial crisis, the head of the United Nations campaign against the disease warned Wednesday.

About 34 million people worldwide are infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ...

African leaders must boost AIDS programmes: Bush

2011-12-04T16:30:24Z

African leaders must ensure that programmes to fight HIV/AIDS on the ravaged continent are successfully carried out, former US president George W. Bush said Sunday.

Bush said at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on AIDS and STIs (ICASA) in Africa that funding from foreign donors...

Elton John in tirade against AIDS stigma

2011-12-01T20:30:46Z

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 warned it would be a mistake for governments to let their guard down, wit...

Brazilian city lights up in red for World AIDS Day

2011-12-01T18:30:25Z

Brazil's second city Rio de Janeiro has marked World AIDS Day by lighting 10 of its monuments in red, including its iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer.

"It's a way to remind the population that AIDS has yet to be cured and that condoms are the only way, technically speaking, to fight the AIDS virus and other sexually t...

HIV drives families into 'irreversible poverty': UN

2011-12-01T05:31:14Z

Tens of thousands of HIV-affected households in Asia are facing "irreversible poverty" because of the cost of living with the disease, with women and children hardest hit, a UN report said Thursday.

Catastrophic healthcare costs and the loss of employment opportunities due to widespread discrimination mean that many HIV-positive households across the region are in "rapid socio-econom...

Funding crunch imperils progress on AIDS

2011-11-30T10:30:12Z

LONDON (Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk, the United Nations health agencies said on Wednesday.

A Wor...

Funding crunch puts progress on AIDS at risk

2011-11-30T08:30:07Z

(Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk, the United Nations health agencies said on Wednesday.

A World Health Organizati...

AIDS-related deaths slashed by treatment: UN

2011-11-21T14:30:46Z

A significant expansion in access to treatment helped slash the number of AIDS-related deaths in 2010, bringing the number of people living with HIV to a record 34 million, the United Nations said Monday.

"We are on the verge of a significant breakthrough in the AIDS response," said Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS. "New HIV infections continu...

Amphetamine-type drugs more common than cannabis: U.N.

2011-09-13T07:00:50Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - Criminal gangs are selling more cheap and easy-to-make amphetamine-type drugs, such as ecstasy and crystal meth, in new markets, and cannabis is now the only more widely used illegal drug, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.

The number of methamphetamine pills seized in southeast <...

HIV guidelines to help homosexuals, trans-gender people

2011-06-21T11:00:07Z

GENEVA (Reuters) - Homosexual men and trans-gender people should get equal access to HIV/AIDS programs under the World Health Organization's first guidelines aimed at ending stigma that denies quality care to many, the U.N. agency s...

UN AIDS summit overcomes condom resistance

2011-06-11T09:30:04Z

A new condom home delivery service in India and the production of billions of extra contraceptives around the world highlight the breakthrough of condoms in helping put a brake on the AIDS pandemic, experts say.

An AIDS summit on Friday gave the most explicit UN backing yet to the use of condoms. Negotiators said they had to overcome fierce opposition from the UN summit ordered a huge expansion in AIDS treatment, but sparked protests by the Vatican and some Muslim nations over its endorsement of condoms and calls to help prostitutes, gays and drug users.

The three day summit for the 30th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS set the target of more than doubling the number of people on retroviral ...

UN summit adopts AIDS targets amid condom dispute

2011-06-10T19:30:29Z

A UN AIDS summit on Friday adopted a landmark declaration setting a target of treating 15 million people with life-saving drugs and ending the mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015.

But Muslim countries and the Vatican protested over the summit statement which encouraged the use of condoms and called for greater emphasis on...

UN AIDS summit aims to treat 15 million

2011-06-09T18:30:16Z

A UN AIDS summit has set a target of more than doubling the number of sufferers receiving life-saving treatment to 15 million by 2015.

Health groups said the summit accord, to be officially unveiled Friday, was a "critical" step in achieving universal access to drugs, but that rich countries must now commit to paying the bill.

In the final statement, obtained Thursday by AFP, countries at the summit marking the 30th ...

U.N. summit sets plan to stop HIV child infections

2011-06-09T17:00:29Z

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - World leaders at a U.N. AIDS summit launched a plan on Thursday to try to eliminate by 2015 most new HIV infections among children, who inherit the condition from already infected mothers.

The campaign was launched as the leaders also agreed on a target of reaching 15 million people with HIV treatment, more than double...

Africa demands more help at UN AIDS summit

2011-06-08T18:30:19Z

African leaders on Wednesday called for greater resources to battle the AIDS pandemic at a summit where UN leader Ban Ki-moon set a target of ending new infections by the end of the decade.

Thirty presidents and heads of government were at the summit marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, which will set a target figure for the numbers who will receive re...

Cost of AIDS drugs to keep falling: experts

2011-06-08T13:30:36Z

The cost of drugs used to keep AIDS at bay will keep falling because of the huge demand from millions of sufferers desperate for the lifeline, experts said at the United Nations on Tuesday.

But nations still wrangled ahead of a major three day AIDS summit over how many people will get treatment in coming years.

The summit of about 30 presidents and government leaders must set the future direction of global AIDS polic...

UN summit to set treatment target for AIDS sufferers

2011-06-07T13:30:22Z

A UN AIDS summit starting Wednesday must set key figures on how many people will get special treatment to hold back the disease which has killed nearly 30 million people in the past three decades.

And as 30 heads of state and government gather at the UN headquarters key funding nations are digging their heels in on how many should qualify for drugs and therapies which new research has showed is braking the spread of of AID...

7,000 people a day still catching AIDS: UN

2011-06-03T15:30:15Z

About 7,000 people are being infected with AIDS each day and about half of the 34 million people with HIV do not know they have it, according to a UN report released to mark the disease's 30th anniversary.

The UNAIDS agency said more money, less waste and smarter programs are urgently needed to consolidate gains made in the war on AIDS and HIV.

The report highl...

Stigma hurts Russia's fight against HIV: UN

2011-06-03T13:30:23Z

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 recorded case of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, effective prevention is "to a large extent missing in the region," ...

Mali's former health minister charged with corruption

2011-06-03T09:30:23Z

Mali's former health minister Ibrahim Oumar Toure has been charged with the "crime of abuse of public funds" intended for the fight against AIDS and placed under police watch, officials said Friday.

Toure "has been charged in the affair of the Global Fund (set up by the United Nations mainly to fight A...

HIV infections down 12% among world's youth: UNICEF

2011-06-01T11:30:31Z

HIV infections among the world's youth dropped by 12 percent over the last decade, but fell short of the 25 percent target set by world leaders, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday.

"Is it progress? Yes. Is it enough? Absolutely not," said Elhadj As Sy, UNICEF director for eastern and southern Africa, at the launch of the report in Los Angeles, all previously healthy, had fallen ill with pneumonia. Two had died.

They would be the first casualties of a new virus which has now claimed more lives than a world war.

Nearly 30 million people have been killed by acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and more than 33 million others have the virus that causes it.

Early drug therapy curbs HIV transmission: study

2011-05-13T06:30:33Z

People with HIV who take antiretroviral drugs before their health declines have a 96 percent lower risk of transmitting the virus to a partner, according to a breakthrough global study.

The large study that covered mainly heterosexual couples in Africa, India and the Americas was hailed by AIDS experts as a "game-changer" that will transform how the disease is managed, 30...

After 30 years, war on AIDS at 'moment of truth'

2011-03-31T09:30:11Z

With the war on AIDS nearing its 30th anniversary, the UN on Thursday declared "a moment of truth" had come for new strategies to address the campaign's failures and brake costs that were now unsustainable.

"We have a unique opportunity to take stock of the progress and to critically and honestly assess the barriers that keep us shackled to a reality in which the epidemic continues to outpace the response,"

Complacency fuels new AIDS surge in West: UN

2010-12-01T02:30:54Z

Complacency among young people is causing a new surge of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and European nations like Britain and Germany, a top UN expert said ahead of World AIDS Day on Wednesday.

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Growth in global health funding slows

2010-11-30T15:00:28Z

Rich countries have funnelled billions of health care dollars, euros and yen into the developing world despite the worst economic downturn in decades, according to a study released Tuesday.

But the pace of giving has slowed considerably, said the report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IMHE) at the University of Washington.

After climbing 13 percent an...

AIDS awareness boosts global health funding

2010-11-30T13:31:10Z

Wealthy nations boosted funding for health programs in poor countries more than fourfold between 1990 and 2010, thanks largely to greater awareness of the need to fight HIV/AIDS, a report released Tuesday said.

Research by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) found that development assistance for health programs jumped from 5.66 bill...

UNICEF says HIV-free generation is achievable

2010-11-30T08:30:24Z

LONDON (Reuters) - A generation of babies could be born free of AIDS if the international community stepped up efforts to provide universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and social protection, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

A report by the U.N. children's fund UNICEF

Philippines reports rise in HIV-AIDS infections

2010-11-25T16:30:31Z

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 with 835 for the whole of 2009, the health ministry said.

Sex between men accounted for nearly 80 percent of all cases this year, and more than half of those infected ...

UNAIDS teams up with Vienna's Life Ball

2010-11-24T16:30:50Z

UNAIDS and the organisers of Vienna's AIDS charity Life Ball announced Wednesday they were teaming up to raise funds and awareness in the fight against the deadly disease.

"This collaboration underscores the importance of building partnerships in the AIDS response and doing so in an innovative way," the UN

UN AIDS chief: Spread of HIV in E. Europe is scary

2010-11-24T05:00:21Z

Top UN AIDS official: Spread of HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is scary

The U.N.'s top AIDS official says the spread of HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is frightening.

The U.N. estimates that 1.4 million people were living with HIV in the region in 2009 — almost tr...

UN says AIDS epidemic slows, infections dropping

2010-11-23T05:31:04Z

UN says AIDS epidemic slows, with nearly 20 percent drop in new infections in past decade

The U.N. says the global AIDS epidemic has slowed and cited a drop in new HIV infections.

UNAIDS, the United Nations' AIDS agency, says there has been a nearly 20 percent decrease in new HIV infections over the past decade.

In Reuters) - A dramatic fall in life expectancy in southern Africa caused by AIDS in the 1990s appears to have bottomed out, with new treatments bringing a slight rise in recent years, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.

But the region remains the only one in the wo...

Scientists have announced the mathematical formula for the perfect wife

2010-11-03T09:54:08Z

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The World is a Ghetto: Global Slums - Out of Sight and out of Mind: Deterioration of the Human Condition.

2010-11-02T21:36:50Z

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11.7 billion dollars pledged in global AIDS fund: UN

2010-10-05T13:15:44Z

Donor countries have pledged 11.7 billion dollars over three years to a global fund meant to combat AIDS and other deadly diseases, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

Earlier, Washington said it was contributing what it said was a record four billion dollars to the fund.

The announcement was made in New York as m...

Malawi adopts UN guidelines on AIDS

2010-09-29T08:45:10Z

Malawi, where 12 percent of population is HIV-positive, adopts new UN AIDS guidelines

Malawi's vice president says her AIDS-ravaged southern African country will adopt the latest U.N. health guidelines that call for putting HIV-positive people on drugs sooner.

That means some 500,000 Malawians could be on AIDS drugs by July, double the number now being tre...

World failing to meet 2010 HIV/AIDS care target: UN

2010-09-28T10:16:13Z

UN agencies warned on Friday that the world will fail to meet an end-2010 deadline for "universal" access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment, while new crisis-driven funding cuts could unravel any gains.

The World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, and the

World failing to meet HIV/AIDS care target: UN

2010-09-28T09:16:24Z

UN agencies warned on Tuesday that the world will fail to meet an end-2010 deadline for "universal" access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment, while new crisis-driven funding cuts could unravel any gains.

The World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, and the

Malawi rules out circumcision for AIDS prevention

2010-09-16T04:45:06Z

Malawi rules out circumcision as AIDS-prevention strategy, says no evidence it works

Two government officials in Malawi say the southern African nation will not officially promote male circumcision as an HIV-prevention strategy as they say there isn't enough evidence to support it.

Principal Secretary for HIV and AIDS Mary Shaba said Wednesday there is no scientific evidence that circumcision slows the spread of HI...

J&J launches aid program for women, children

2010-09-09T08:30:19Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has pledged grant money, drugs and research funding for new HIV and tuberculosis medications as part of a five-year, private sector effort to improve the health up to 120 million women and children in developing nations each year.

The announcement on Wednesday by the drug, medical device and consumer prod...

J&J launches 5-year aid program for women, children

2010-09-08T20:10:04Z

The announcement on Wednesday by the drug, medical device and consumer prod...

Scientists say vaginal gel cuts HIV-infections by half

2010-11-02T15:00:29Z

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UN warning on AIDS in prisons

2010-07-23T01:45:16Z

UN expert warns that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS

The U.N.'s top investigator on torture and punishment is warning that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS.

Manfred Nowak, who has visited detention facilities around the world, says inmates are often held in inhumane conditions in which the HIV virus is sprea...

UN taps big names for HIV prevention panel

2010-07-21T03:30:13Z

UN taps big names to promote HIV prevention _ Magic Johnson, Jacques Chirac, Chris Hughes

The U.N. AIDS agency has tapped some big names — including former basketball star Magic Johnson — to boost global efforts to prevent...

Record number of children getting HIV drugs: WHO

2010-07-20T11:16:38Z

Life-saving drugs that quell HIV reached a record 355,000 children at the end of last year, compared with 276,000 a year earlier, but more young lives could be saved if antiretroviral treatment began earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.

The figures were released at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna,...

U.N. urged to probe U.S. trade stance on generic drugs

2010-07-20T03:15:14Z

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 Gap, the Foundation for ...

Major step towards anti-HIV vaginal gel

2010-07-19T23:15:45Z

Scientists reported a major stride towards a vaginal gel that can thwart HIV, a goal that would be of huge benefit to African women bearing the brunt of the AIDS pandemic.

A prototype cream tested in South Africa curbed the risk of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by 39 percent overall, but by 54 percent among those women who used it most consistently, they said.

The study coincided with the six-day 18...

Study finds MTV AIDS project changes HIV attitudes

2010-07-19T16:45:06Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - MTV drama programs about HIV and AIDS shown to young people in some of the highest-risk countries in Africa and the Caribbean had a dramatic affect on attitudes to the disease, a study released on Tuesday showed.

A South Africa curbed the risk of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by 39 percent overall, but by 54 percent among those women who used it most consistently, they said.

The study coincided with the ...

Harsh attitudes fuel Eastern Europe HIV epidemic: UNICEF

2010-07-19T03:15:28Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - An underground HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is building at an alarming pace, fueled by drug use, risky sex and severe social stigma that stops people asking for help, the United Nations said on Monday.

In a...

Funding crisis darkens mood at AIDS forum

2010-07-18T14:15:27Z

A world forum on AIDS opened in Vienna on Sunday to warnings led by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the 29-year war against the disease was at threat from funding cuts.

Launching the six-day 18th International AIDS Conference, the UN chief said in a video message that hard-won advances could all be fo...

World economic crisis hits AIDS funding

2010-07-18T09:15:31Z

Funding by rich economies for poor countries fighting HIV/AIDS fell back slightly last year, to 7.6 billion dollars after 7.7 billion dollars in 2008, as a result of the economic recession, a report card issued at the world AIDS forum said on Sunday.

The 7.6 billion dollars were provided by the Group of Eight (G8) nations, the European Commission and oth...

UN: HIV among young people going down in Africa

2010-07-13T04:30:18Z

UN: Number of young people with HIV in Africa is falling in countries hardest hit by the virus

The number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to a new report by a U.N. agency.

The number of young people infected with HIV dropped by at least 25 percent in a dozen countries, the...

11.5 percent HIV/AIDS prevalence in Mozambique: report

2010-07-05T10:15:58Z

Almost 12 percent of the Mozambican population is infected with HIV/AIDS, a government survey released on Monday said.

"Anything above 5 percent means the country is in a tragic situation. A prevalence rate of 11.5 percent is already twice as much," Health Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido said in the capital Maputo.

The si...

TARGETED ACTION ON HIV AND TUBERCULOSIS NEEDED TO REACH DRUG USERS

2010-11-02T15:30:28Z

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Group urges Bristol to protect HIV-drug for babies

2010-06-07T15:15:40Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Board members of an international group that helps ensure patient get access to HIV drugs has warned that Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's plans to close a factory in France could leave thousands of babies without a life-saving treatment for the virus that causes AIDS.

The ...

Hollywood Steps Up for the Gulf and More of This Week's Inspirational Pop Culture Moments

2010-10-27T09:06:32Z

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Annie Lennox named UNAIDS goodwill ambassador

2010-06-02T05:15:16Z

Former Eurythmics star Annox Lennox named goodwill ambassador for UN agency fighting HIV/AIDS

Scottish rock singer Annie Lennox has become a spokeswoman for the U.N. agency fighting HIV/AIDS.

Here appointment as UNAIDS goodwill ambassador Wednesday, ...

Before Mother's Day, African grannies meet on AIDS

2010-05-08T03:45:05Z

Days before Mother's Day, African, Canadian grandmothers gather in Swaziland to fight AIDS

Eunice Vilakati is everybody's grandmother in her neighborhood.

Not only is she caring for her own two granddaughters orphaned last year, but a changing number of neighbors' children also come to the widow in this nation devastated by the AIDS epidemic.

"When...

Cutting AIDS funds risks "death sentence": report

2010-06-12T11:30:45Z

LONDON (Reuters) - A global pullback from AIDS funding may mean HIV could again become a death sentence for people in the developing world, according to a report released on Monday.

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) found patients are being turned away from treatment prog...

Cutting AIDS funds risks "death sentence"

2010-06-12T11:30:36Z

LONDON (Reuters) - A global pullback from AIDS funding may mean HIV could again become a death sentence for people in the developing world, according to a report released on Monday.

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) found patients are being turned away from treatment prog...

Global Fund seeks $20 billion to fight AIDS, TB

2010-03-24T06:45:46Z

Global Fund seeks $20 billion to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria in poor nations

A global group funding the battle against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in impoverished countries urged wealthy nations on Wednesday to keep paying for the fight even as the economic crisis forces budget cuts.

Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Geneva-based Global Fund, said he hoped to win ple...

UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015

2010-03-08T02:15:20Z

UN says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015

The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned.

Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and m...

UN asks flyers to click $2 for MassiveGood

2010-10-22T15:49:23Z

UN asks flyers to click $2 for MassiveGood health effort in developing nations

With a simple click, U.S. travelers buying airline tickets via some travel agencies and Internet sites can now donate $2 or more to fight AIDS in developing countries.

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2010-10-25T09:29:07Z

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New UN campaign targets HIV prevention for women

2010-03-02T16:15:31Z

The United Nations launched a global campaign Tuesday to prevent girls and women from contracting HIV, now the leading cause of death and disease among women worldwide between the reproductive ages of 15 and 49.

The U.N. AIDS agency and Scottish singer and AIDS activist Annie Lennox unveiled a five-year action plan amid a two-week meeting to review a 1994 platform to ...

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2010-10-25T08:02:25Z

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U.S. AIDS chief sees new goals in global battle

2010-04-16T07:52:10Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is retooling its global multibillion-dollar fight against HIV/AIDS to transform healthcare in some of the world's poorest countries, the U.S. AIDS chief said on Tuesday.

Eric Goosby, who President Barack Obama named last year to take over the Bush administration's ...

UN lauds US and SKorea for lifting HIV travel ban

2010-06-25T16:10:26Z

UN praises US and SKorea for lifting HIV/AIDS travel ban, urges 57 countries to follow

The United Nations praised the United States and South Korea on Monday for lifting travel bans on people with HIV and urged 57 other countries with travel restrictions to end them quickly.

Uganda may lose the chance of hosting a major AIDS research institution if it passes an anti-homosexual bill that seeks to significantly curtail gay rights, a UN official said Monday.

United Nations and Ugandan health officials announced that the Geneva-based African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP) will be shif...

UN chief warns of increasing HIV infections

2010-06-12T08:33:35Z

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on World AIDS Day that new infections are outpacing the gains from treating people with the HIV virus and millions of victims still experience widespread discrimination.

While the world is seeing signs of progress in reversing the AIDS epidemic, Ban said Tuesday that more must be done urgently to reach the

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2010-10-22T13:23:42Z

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New WHO guidelines urge phase-out of major HIV drug

2010-04-16T08:48:24Z

GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries should phase out the use of stavudine, the most common AIDS drug, because of "long-term, irreversible" side effects in HIV patients including wasting and a nerve disorder, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

In sweeping changes to its guidelines, the WHO also recommended that people with HIV, inclu...

UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996

2010-04-16T08:55:31Z

UN: HIV epidemic peaked in 1996, number of infected almost unchanged since 2007

The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS — about 33 million — has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

Officials say the global epidemic probably peaked in 1996 and that the disease looks stable in most regions, except for SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, up from 33 million in 2007, but more people are living longer due to the availability of drugs, according to a United Nations report.

However, more than half of the people who need life-saving drugs are not getting...

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2010-10-24T09:17:14Z

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UN urges nations to lift HIV travel ban

2010-06-25T20:03:15Z

UN chief Ban Ki-moon hailed US President Barack Obama's removal of a decades-old travel ban on HIV-positive visitors, and urged other countries to do the same.

"I congratulate President Obama on announcing the removal of the travel restrictions for people living with HIV from entering the

Less money for AIDS research, treatment?: experts

2010-04-16T09:45:38Z

PARIS (Reuters) - The global financial crisis and a loss of interest in the AIDS epidemic may translate into less money in coming years for research, treatment and prevention of the virus, HIV experts said on Monday.

They are especially concerned because a trial in Thailand has just shown it may be possible to make a vaccine to prevent AIDS - the first hint of success i...

Tenfold rise in HIV treatment for poor: UN

2010-04-16T10:04:02Z

More than four million people from poor and middle-income countries received HIV/AIDS treatment in 2008, marking a tenfold increase in access to medication over five years, a UN report said Wednesday.

The biggest progress was recorded in sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of all HIV infections occur, said the joint report by the UN: 4 million AIDS patients now on drugs, but another 5 million people still need them

About 4 million people are now getting AIDS drugs worldwide — a 10-fold jump in five years — but 5 million others are still in dire need of the medicine, U.N. health officials estimated in a report issued Wednesday.

The figures represented a major increase in rolling out drugs to patients across

AIDS vaccine protects people, shocks researchers

2010-09-15T14:21:43Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental AIDS vaccine made from two failed products has protected people for the first time, reducing the rate of infection by about 30 percent, researchers said on Thursday.

Developers said they were now debating how to test the limited amounts of vaccine they have left to find out if there are ways to make it work better.

Scientists said they were unsure how or why the vaccines w...

AIDS breakthrough as vaccine cuts infections for first time

2010-04-16T10:09:29Z

An experimental AIDS vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection in humans in what scientists Thursday called a "breakthrough" in the quarter-century fight against the epidemic.

The vaccine reduced the chance of being infected by a third, researchers announced after the world's largest trial of 16,000 volunteers, carried out by the US Army and

The vaccine reduced the chance of being infected by almost a third, they said after the world's largest vaccine trial of more than 16,000 volunteers, carried out by the US Army and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Some people yell "U.N. out!" as the Jordanian U.N. peacekeepers pass by in their armored personnel carriers, but generally these soldiers don't understand French and so miss the comments yelled at them, although one man honk...

South Sudan Vote

2010-12-28T11:31:27Z

Southern Sudanese men store recently delivered ballot papers, inside a warehouse in Juba, southern Sudan on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. More than 7.3 million ballots have arrived in Southern Sudan for an independence referendum that is likely to create the world's newest country. U.N. official

APTOPIX Ivory Coast

2010-12-24T01:31:06Z

UN forces drive past a billboard for President Laurent Gbagbo in, Ivory Coast, Abidjan Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. The United Nations said Thursday that at least 173 people have been killed and dozens of others have gone missing or been tortured following Ivory Coast's disputed ...

Richardson Koreas

2010-12-23T18:31:25Z

In this Dec. 22, 2010 photo, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson answers questions about his recent trip to North Korea during an interview in his office in Santa Fe, N.M. A former U.S. ambassador to the ...

Switzerland Human Rights Council Ivory Coast

2010-12-23T07:00:28Z

Korean Kyung-Wha Kang, United Nations deputy high Commissioner for Human Rights speaks during the 14th special session on the situation in Ivory Coast of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland