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WHO: HIV Prevalence among the Elderly Very High
While public health campaigns remain largely focused on the young, the number of older people...
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness DAY Is Almost Here
Saturday marks the annual National Back HIV/AIDS Awareness DAY, a day meant to encourage...
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Obama Calls for Action to Defeat HIV/AIDS
President George W. Bush was honoured on
the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day for his commitment...
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Today Is Word AIDS Day: Do You Know Your HIV/AIDS Status? Get Tested!
The 1st of December is World AIDS Day. To honour the 20th
anniversary of the first World Aids Day...
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A New Treatment Could Prevent HIV
A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and...
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Can AIDS Epidemic Be Stopped?
How to manage the HIV epidemic is a question that appears to
be more frequent than ever nowadays....
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HIV Scare At The Normandy High School in St. Louis
Recently, the students at the Normandy High School in St. Louis have been confronting a situation...
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S. African Health Minister: “We Desperately Need an Effective HIV Vaccine”
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Africa is the country experiencing one of
the most severe AIDS epidemics in the world....
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Virus hunters track HIV to 100 years back
Washington - A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the...
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HIV Origins Traced around 1900, Much Earlier than Believed
AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths
among...
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AIDS Conference Ends with a Call to Fight Stigmatization
Participants at the 17th International AIDS Conference made
a call on the last day of the meeting...
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AIDS Conference In Mexico Opened For Discussions
An estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians and
activists were present on Sunday at...
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New HIV Cases Were Underestimated by 40 Percent, the CDC Announces
The Centers for Disease Control has announced that the new cases of HIV infections were...
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Gates, Bloomberg Join Forces For Anti-Smoking Campaign
Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday their decision to spend $500...
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UN: More Action Is Needed to Fight HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide
Despite global efforts to fight AIDS, the number of people
who get infected is far outpacing the...
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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Announce New HIV Drug Company
Britain’s biggest drugs company GlaxoSmithKline and US rival Pfizer announced Thursday...
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PEPFAR Program Decreased AIDS-Related Deaths in Africa
According to a study published online Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine, the...
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British medical journal urges Pope to retract condom remarks
London - A top medical research journal Friday urged Pope Benedict XVI to retract his...
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Pope Benedict’s Remarks – Misunderstood?
Pope Benedict’s statement upon arriving in Cameron that AIDS cannot be overcome by the...
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Forum Calls for Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Asia
On Friday, after three days of debate during a health forum, representatives at health...
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HIV/AIDS Still a Threat, especially among African Americans
Nowadays HIV/AIDS continues to be a threat to men, women and children to all communities as many...
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Global Efforts against HIV/AIDS Should Focus on Prevention and Testing
Prevention strategies should be improved in order to reduce transmission of HIV among those...
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HIV/AIDS Panic Among Nigerian Workers
Already a high-risk area for contracting HIV and developing AIDS, Nigeria is now facing another...
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UN Report: Early HIV Diagnosis and Treatment Essential to Save Babies’ Lives
A United Nations report has shown that
early HIV testing and treatment procedures which provide...
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More Efforts Are Needed to Combat Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Sufferers
The fact that there is a lot of inaccurate information about how HIV is transmitted also...
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China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic Continues To Be A Problem
There are currently an estimated 700,000 people living with HIV in China, including 85,000 AIDS...
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50% Of Chinese Wouldn’t Share Meal With People With HIV/AIDS
Up to now, drug users, gay men, prostitutes and the victims of irresponsible blood-buying schemes...
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UN calls for new understanding of how AIDS spreads
New York - The United Nations programme on HIV and AIDS said Friday that governments and healthcare...
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Complacency About AIDS Heightens Risks, Experts Say
Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the...
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WHO Plans HIV and AIDS Elimination
The World Health Organization has returned its attention to one of the most frightening viruses and...
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WHO: Universal Testing And Treatment Could Tackle AIDS
In an attempt to find answers on how to better tackle the
AIDS epidemic and the role of so-called...
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Indonesia’s Papua Province Considering Microchip Monitoring For HIV Patients
Lawmakers in Indonesia’s Papua province worked
to pass a bill that would require HIV/AIDS patients...
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Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua
A controversial bill that requires some HIV patients to be implanted with microchips has just...
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HIV Patients Have a Higher Risk Of Developing Cancer As Well
When you think one’s health is as bad as it can get, think again, as doctors are discovering a new...
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Hope for South Africa! “HIV Causes AIDS,” Health Minister Barbara Hogan States
This week, South Africa’s new Health Minister,
Barbara Hogan, said it was unquestionable that HIV...
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Scientists Might Have Found The Origin Of HIV
In a recent study, to be published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature, scientists reveal new...
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CDC Reports "Alarming" Rates Of HIV Infections Among Young Black Men
Young black gay men appear to be the hardest hit population when
it comes to AIDS in the United...
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CDC Urges HIV Testing among Patients Unaware of Their HIV Status
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released this week found that only 40% of people...
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Prevalence Of HIV Infection Among MSM Key Topic At The AIDS Conference
One of the things that worried public health leaders gathered at the international conference on...
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New AIDS Reports Look Discouraging
A new report of the AIDS epidemic produced by
researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Daily Doses of Growth Hormone May Aid HIV Patients
Low-dose injections with human growth
hormone can reverse some of the abnormal fat distribution...
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HIV Infection Rate Higher Than Previously Estimated
CDS’s advances in blood-testing methods of measuring newly diagnosed infections led to a revised...
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US HIV Infection Rate Higher Than Previously Thought
The rate of annual new HIV infections in the US is about 40
per cent higher than previously...
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Black AIDS Institute Says U.S. Neglects Black People At Home
A new report by the Black AIDS Institute has found that the United States spearheads the global...
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Is Your Spouse A Smoker? Then Your Stroke Risk Is Very High
It is not enough to be cigarette-free in order to keep
yourself away from strokes, according to...
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