Topic: United Nations
Mali's former health minister Ibrahim Oumar Toure has been charged with the "crime of abuse of public funds" intended for the fight against AIDS and placed under police watch, officials said Friday.Toure "has been charged in the affair of the Global Fund ...
HIV infections among the world's youth dropped by 12 percent over the last decade, but fell short of the 25 percent target set by world leaders, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday."Is it progress? Yes. Is it enough? Absolutely not," said Elhadj ...
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 ...
People with HIV who take antiretroviral drugs before their health declines have a 96 percent lower risk of transmitting the virus to a partner, according to a breakthrough global study.The large study that covered mainly heterosexual couples in Africa, India and the ...
With the war on AIDS nearing its 30th anniversary, the UN on Thursday declared "a moment of truth" had come for new strategies to address the campaign's failures and brake costs that were now unsustainable."We have a unique opportunity to take stock ...
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, ...
Rich countries have funnelled billions of health care dollars, euros and yen into the developing world despite the worst economic downturn in decades, according to a study released Tuesday.But the pace of giving has slowed considerably, said the report by the Institute ...
Wealthy nations boosted funding for health programs in poor countries more than fourfold between 1990 and 2010, thanks largely to greater awareness of the need to fight HIV/AIDS, a report released Tuesday said.Research by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A generation of babies could be born free of AIDS if the international community stepped up efforts to provide universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and social protection, the United Nations said on Tuesday.A report by the U.N. children's ...
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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