Battling Aids

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...

Three men in Groningen, Netherlands were arrested by Dutch Police on suspicion of drugging, raping and later on injecting other men with their own HIV-infected blood at the time of sex parties. Two of the arrested men admitted injecting their HIV..

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...

Now, those HIV positive mothers, who have always lived worried about their breast-fed babies, have all reasons to cheer up. You can now feed your baby with your milk even being HIV positive, without effecting your child! Researchers at the Berkeley...

FDA (Food and Drug Administration) asked blood donor clinics not to accept the blood donations from gay men. Gay men remain banned for life from donating blood to reduce the spread of HIV via transfusions. According to FDA -- this policy will...

India and Nigeria find themselves in an 'AIDS league of shame,' that says by 2010, the world will fall far short of its target of providing universal access to HIV treatment. Action Aid International, in its report titled 'Tackling...