Topic: United States

Obama to set new on goal on fighting global AIDS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will set a new goal in the worldwide fight against AIDS with an announcement on Thursday of a target to provide treatment for an additional 2 million people by the end of 2013.Obama's new global target ...

Many Americans with HIV go untreated: study

Nearly three quarters of the 1.2 million Americans with HIV do not have their infection under control, raising the risk of death from AIDS and transmission to others, said a US study on Tuesday.One in five people with human immunodeficiency virus are ...

Few in US with HIV have virus under control: CDC

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Only 28 percent of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV have the infection under control, increasing the risk that they will spread the disease to others, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.A big part of the problem is ...

Few in U.S. with HIV have virus under control: CDC

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Only 28 percent of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV have the infection under control, increasing the risk that they will spread the disease to others, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.A big part of the problem is that ...

Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion

LONDON (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday.A study by Canadian scientists found that South ...

Syphilis rates drop, but STDs still big problem

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Americans newly infected with syphilis has fallen for the first time in a decade, but sexually transmitted diseases continue to take a staggering toll on the United States, with 19 million new infections each year at ...

U.S. syphilis rates drop, but STDs still big problem

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Americans newly infected with syphilis has fallen for the first time in a decade, but sexually transmitted diseases continue to take a staggering toll on the United States, with 19 million new infections each year at ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared an AIDS-free generation a US priority Tuesday, saying such a "historic" goal can be met by combining prevention strategies worldwide."This, I admit, is an ambitious goal, and I recognize that I am not the first ...

Clinton sets new U.S. global AIDS focus on treatment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States set a new direction for its global AIDS campaign on Tuesday, emphasizing HIV-fighting drugs that can prevent new infections to bring the goal of "an AIDS-free generation" within reach, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.Clinton, outlining ...

Aurobindo uses patent pool for generic AIDS drugs

LONDON (Reuters) - India's Aurobindo Pharma has become the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to make HIV/AIDS treatments more widely available to the poor, paving the way for it to sell cheap medicines in many countries.The Medicines ...