Battling Aids

It seems New York city is hell bent on finding the HIV status of all the residents. The recent proposal to test the HIV status of every individual turning up at a clinic or hospital is ample testimony of the trend. However, a lot of practical issues...

HIV/AIDS situation continues to worsen in China with 18,543 new cases of this disease looming out just in the first half of this year. Shockingly, if this goes on spiraling like this then none can stop the prediction, claiming China to have 10 million...

Already struggling with HIV for decades, trying to snatch life from the deadly ailment, the sub-Saharan Africans now have yet another monster to fight away -- tuberculosis. The region being undoubtedly the most affected by the virus, inhabited by.

Do you know, among all US cities, Washington D.C has the highest rate of AIDS?! It has been reported by city health officials, released on Monday. People living in Washington are not being tested for HIV and come up with the infection at advanced...

The extensive research projects undergoing on AIDS worldwide have though yet not established any charming hopes for the AIDS patients, but, such efforts do obviously have not gone wasted. Scientists have found that protease inhibitors (PIs), a common...

AIDS, the killer disease that has orphaned millions of kids and widowed thousands of women may not be a global epidemic as once predicted, according to a WHO expert. Kevin De Cock, the WHO expert is of the opinion that the threat may be confined to..

A quarter- century wisdom that the progression of HIV to AIDS is driven chiefly by the 'viral load', that is the amount of HIV in the blood has been challenged by a new finding, published last Sunday in the journal Nature Immunology. According to.

An overall decrease in the number of HIV infections in year 2006 has not brought a sigh of relief for Thailand's health ministry. The fact that has sparked panic in the health department is that married people are accounting for 40 per cent of new...

After speaking to many Americans, I got the impression that according to them, AIDS virus originated in Africa. Specifically, the virus was carried to the U.S. by an Haitian immigrant. This is what Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist based.

It was only at the beginning of 1986, when the world was burdened with over 20,000 reported AIDS cases; India amazingly was a virgin of the disease. But, scanning across the years, it let uncontrolled increase of the disease with a present astounding.