Topic: United States
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People infected with hepatitis B virus are around twice as likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, researchers reported on Tuesday. Hepatitis B was already known to cause liver cancer and some scientists had suspected it might cause lymphoma, too. The ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - South Africa is considering rolling out use of a vaginal gel which can protect women against HIV during sex before it is officially licensed by drug regulators, the country's health minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at an international AIDS ...
A breakthrough test of a vaginal gel to protect women against HIV unleashed a wave of optimism at the world AIDS conference on Tuesday after two days of rows over funding. Hearty applause broke out in the main hall of the Vienna ...
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 ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - MTV drama programs about HIV and AIDS shown to young people in some of the highest-risk countries in Africa and the Caribbean had a dramatic affect on attitudes to the disease, a study released on Tuesday showed. A U.N.-backed ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gel made using Gilead Sciences Inc's HIV drug tenofovir reduced HIV infections in women by 39 percent over two and a half years -- the first time such an approach has protected against the virus, South African researchers ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Many low-income urban areas across the United States have epidemics of HIV, with 2.1 percent of heterosexuals in poverty-stricken urban areas infected with the incurable AIDS virus, U.S. scientists said on Monday. In a study of rates of HIV ...
Bill Clinton and Bill Gates sounded an austere note at the world AIDS conference on Monday, rebuffing activists clamouring for leaders to throw open the funding spigot despite recession. Wading into a mounting controversy, the former US president stoutly defended Barack Obama, ...
At the age of 63, former US president Bill Clinton says he has one more mountain to climb before he dies -- and that's Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Clinton revealed the secret goal -- along with his dream of running ...
Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind. The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods. And, more ...
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