Topic: Southeast Asia
The Philippines is struggling to deal with a worsening HIV-AIDS problem, with far too little money being spent on reversing a steady rise in infection rates, health experts warn.The government will have to prioritise its funding to concentrate on helping the most ...
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 ...
New HIV infections are falling in Asia, with India, the country with the biggest population of infected people in the region, reporting a 56 percent plunge from the epidemic's peak, the United Nations said Monday."In South and South-east Asia, the estimated 270,000 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - India's Aurobindo Pharma has become the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to make HIV/AIDS treatments more widely available to the poor, paving the way for it to sell cheap medicines in many countries.The Medicines ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Financial troubles drove Liana into prostitution almost four years ago, but the 30-year-old ex-accountant said she'd had no idea then that unprotected sex could give her HIV/AIDS, a disease she now has to live with.Liana, who holds an economics ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia wants the private sector to build more hospitals and reserve a quarter of the available beds for the poor, as it increases spending on free healthcare to tackle a rise in diseases from strokes to AIDS, the health ...
Philandering husbands who visit prostitutes across the border in Thailand are being blamed for high HIV-AIDS infection rates among women in Malaysia's most conservative state.The Malaysian AIDS Council reportedly said that women in northern Kelantan state, which is ruled by the hardline ...
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 new diseases and new technologies come new ways of preventing the spread of one of the most deadly diseases in the history of manking. If Indonesia chooses to do this method of insuring that HIV positive adults do not spread the ...
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