Topic: United States
More money, less waste and smarter programmes are urgently needed to consolidate precious gains in the war on AIDS and HIV, UNAIDS said on ahead of the disease's 30th anniversary."The number of people becoming infected and dying is decreasing, but the international ...
Thirty years after the AIDS epidemic first surfaced, more people than ever before in the United States -- more than 1.1 million -- are living with HIV, the Centers for Disease Control said Thursday.The longevity of AIDS patients is widely attributed to ...
The US government said Tuesday it is taking steps to remove from the market a host of online products that promise to cure HIV, herpes, chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases.The products, mainly sold on the Internet but also available in some ...
The US government on Monday ordered US states and territories to ensure occupational trade schools and licensing agencies don't discriminate against applicants who have HIV or AIDS.The Department of Justice (DOJ) sent letters to the states after learning that applicants were being ...
Seven Guatemalans filed a class action lawsuit in Washington over a 1940s US study in which hundreds of people in the Central American nation were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea without their consent.The suit by the Guatemalans, filed against the US ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. teenagers and young adults who say they are abstaining from sex is on the rise, even as more young women report having sexual contact with each other, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.The U.S. Centers ...
The head of a bioethics commission convened by President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that a 1940s study of STDs using patients in Guatemala was wrong and that a US probe was continuing."What happened was clearly wrong," said Amy Gutmann, who chairs ...
A gel that has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in women during vaginal sex has also shown promise toward preventing transmission during anal sex, US researchers said on Monday."HIV was significantly inhibited in tissue samples from participants who ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Australia's early and widespread use of clean-needle programs seems to have kept HIV rates among injection-drug users in check over the long term, according to a study.In 1986, several years after HIV and AIDS came to widespread ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People infected with the AIDS virus may be three times more likely to suffer a stroke than people not infected, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.While stroke rates in the United States fell 7.2 percent in 2006 compared to 1997, ...
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