Topic: Oceania
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 ...
The spread of HIV in Papua New Guinea is influenced by the social and cultural context. This study has aimed to develop knowledge about the different forms of domestic violence experienced by PNG women and their HIV status, and to give women ...
Four US health workers and doctors from Zimbabwe and New Zealand were granted bail Monday after their arrest last week on charges of illegally running a clinic that provides AIDS drugs."Each of you shall pay bail of 200 dollars and you shall ...
An HIV-positive man in New Zealand has admitted injecting his blood into his sleeping wife and infecting her with the virus which can cause AIDS, a newspaper reported Sunday.It is believed the man wanted to give her the disease so she would ...
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 ...
In Papua New Guinea, a young woman was dragged from her home, beaten, tied to a log and set on fire when a mob accused her of practicing witchcraft. She was also accused of having an extramarital affair, and of transmitting HIV ...
