Topic: United Nations
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 ...
A 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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