Topic: Unaids
VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the world's largest backer of programs against HIV and AIDS said at a global conference on AIDS on Sunday he feared wealthy donor countries may cut funding in the wake of global recession.Speaking at the start ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New AIDS plans released by the United Nations and the U.S. government on Tuesday stress smarter, targeted spending as a way to keep up the fight against the pandemic during a global recession.Even Bill Gates, the multi-billionaire Microsoft founder ...
Prevalence of HIV among young people is falling in some of the worst-hit countries around the world amid a change in their sexual behaviour patterns, UNAIDS said Tuesday."For the first time... reductions in HIV prevalence among young people have coincided with a ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Young people in Africa are leading a "revolution" in HIV prevention and driving down rates of the disease by having safer sex and fewer sexual partners, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday.The prevalence of the human immunodeficiency ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Ten million AIDS deaths could be averted by 2025 and a million new HIV infections prevented every year if countries took a fresh look at how to meet targets for treating the disease, the United Nations AIDS programme said ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:. FDA briefing documents posted online Tuesday acknowledge the drug's effectiveness in helping patients lose weight, but say the review panel should take into account a ...
UN: Number of young people with HIV in Africa is falling in countries hardest hit by the virusThe number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Young people in Africa are leading a "revolution" in HIV prevention and driving down rates of the disease by having safer sex and fewer sexual partners, the United Nations AIDS programme said on Tuesday.The prevalence of the human immunodeficiency ...
Elucidation of the HIV genome structure revealed information about the virus's infectious nature. In August researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported having decoded the structure of a complete HIV genome. In a more encouraging development, access to ...