Topic: United Nations
UN agencies warned on Tuesday that the world will fail to meet an end-2010 deadline for "universal" access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment, while new crisis-driven funding cuts could unravel any gains.The World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, and the UN Children's Fund UNICEF ...
Malawi rules out circumcision as AIDS-prevention strategy, says no evidence it worksTwo government officials in Malawi say the southern African nation will not officially promote male circumcision as an HIV-prevention strategy as they say there isn't enough evidence to support it.Principal Secretary ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has pledged grant money, drugs and research funding for new HIV and tuberculosis medications as part of a five-year, private sector effort to improve the health up to 120 million women and children in developing nations ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has pledged grant money, drugs and research funding for new HIV and tuberculosis medications as part of a five-year, private sector effort to improve the health up to 120 million women and children in developing nations ...
A vaginal gel has significantly cut the rate of women contracting HIV from infected partners in an experiment in South Africa, researchers said. Welcoming the results, UN agencies said they would convene an expert consultation in South Africa next month to discuss ...
UN expert warns that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDSThe U.N.'s top investigator on torture and punishment is warning that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS.Manfred Nowak, who has visited detention facilities around the world, says inmates are often held ...
UN taps big names to promote HIV prevention _ Magic Johnson, Jacques Chirac, Chris HughesThe U.N. AIDS agency has tapped some big names — including former basketball star Magic Johnson — to boost global efforts to prevent the spread of HIV.Others on ...
Life-saving drugs that quell HIV reached a record 355,000 children at the end of last year, compared with 276,000 a year earlier, but more young lives could be saved if antiretroviral treatment began earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.The ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS groups on Tuesday accused the United States of violating the health rights of millions of poor people around the world through trade policies that make it harder for them to get life-saving drugs.A coalition that includes Health Gap, ...
Scientists reported a major stride towards a vaginal gel that can thwart HIV, a goal that would be of huge benefit to African women bearing the brunt of the AIDS pandemic.A prototype cream tested in South Africa curbed the risk of infection ...
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