Topic: Unaids
Heterosexuals who take daily AIDS drugs reduce the risk of being infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by nearly two-thirds, ground-breaking studies said on Wednesday.Campaigners hailed what they described as a powerful new weapon in the three-decade war against AIDS."This is ...
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 ...
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 ...
More money, less waste and smarter programmes are urgently needed to consolidate precious gains in the war on AIDS and HIV, UNAIDS said on ahead of the disease's 30th anniversary."The number of people becoming infected and dying is decreasing, but the international ...
CHICAGO/GENEVA (Reuters) - After 30 years of AIDS prevention efforts, global leaders may now need to shift their focus to spending more on drugs used to treat the disease as new data show this is also the best way to prevent the ...
On June 5 1981, American epidemiologists reported a baffling event: five young gay men 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 ...
Janet Jackson, Bill Clinton and Brooke Shields will be the stars at this year's Life Ball, Vienna's colourful AIDS charity event, on May 21, organisers said Monday.Former US President Clinton, a regular guest, will return for the ball's 19th edition, which will ...
Former UNAIDS epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani's 'The Wisdom of Whores' is available free for a limited time, starting on World AIDS DayFormer UNAIDS epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani's The Wisdom of Whores is available free for a limited time, starting on World AIDS Day. “A ...
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.The worrying sexual behavior of young adults, ...
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 ...
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