Battling Aids

When it comes to sex, 25% of the virgins keep aside contraceptives, throwing cold water on the efforts being made to bring down the rate of STDs' spread. This claims the 2007 Durex Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey, which was conducted in 26 countries...

The word HIV -- Human Immunodeficiency Virus -- itself sends a shiver down the spine. This condition in humans, which slowly destroys the immune system of a patient leads to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Since it was first recognized.

HIV infection theory, which claims that HIV is a retrovirus that paves way for such a deformation in our physical system that our immune system begins to crumble down, is full of flaws, scientists say. According to this long lasting theory, infected...

AIDS is no longer a stranger in Tibetan community, as the number of people with HIV infection leaving behind the figure of 31, reported last year, has soared up to the mark of 41. This increase, reported within a year, points to quite a critical...

To fight as fatal a health hazard as AIDS, countries need to take lead in fighting HIV. Even global AIDS experts claim that countries that take the lead in directing domestic efforts against HIV and AIDS seem to have the greatest success in...

India is in doubt over the number of its AIDS victims. Some records place India behind South Africa as the second largest country affected with AIDS, whereas few present a grimmer scenario placing India as the largest contributor to HIV in the..

According to the latest government antenatal survey presented at the AIDS conference under way in Durban, the country has shown a remarkable decrease in HIV prevalence amongst HIV positive women. The survey shows that the national HIV prevalence...

Antiretrovirals are there to fight HIV virus, but what about the psychological virus, still lurking in our society and usually finding an outlet in the form of discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients. Stoking this debate further a similar incident...

The United Nations has issued a new guideline making it compulsory for people in countries where AIDS is widespread to be automatically offered HIV testing when they visit a clinic. The UN believes that this is meant to boost HIV treatment, care and..

Despite launching worldwide, mission against HIV/AIDS, its roots continue to spread extensively around the globe, killing around 8,000 people everyday. However, with each such death a question remains unanswered, why; why are we failing to check this...