Battling Aids

In a significant move which would bolster the fight against AIDS, New Jersey has introduced a new bill which would make it compulsory for pregnant women and newborns to be tested for HIV. Senate President Richard J Codey introduced the legislation...

When it comes to HIV risk, marital sex seems to be the biggest source of it especially for the women, unveils a new study that is based on six months of anthropological research, including participant observation, 20 marital case studies, 37 key...

A new U.S research has found that -- a generation of female teens born with HIV who are now reaching sexual maturity have a higher number of cervical abnormalities. Researchers monitored the rate of first-time pregnancies, genital health and Pap...

A judge has sentenced a man to 2 years in prison for concealing that he was HIV-positive when he gave blood to a Hammond plasma center. Michael Ivy, 46, of East Chicago pleaded guilty to selling blood contaminated with HIV in September last year to...

Herbal remedy of Gambian president is nothing, but a sham that HIV-infected patients are being provided with. Proving this further, AIDS experts accused Gambian president Yahya Jammeh of publicizing false data, proving his herbal remedy very effective...

Doctors are normally looked upon as the saviors of ailing people but how would you define them if they push you into the gorge of death. Similar incident happened, in England as nearly 2,000 haemophilia sufferers were exposed to HIV and/or hepatitis...

A natural component of human blood has been found to block the HIV virus from infecting cells. It may lead to the development of another class of antiretroviral drugs to fight HIV/AIDS. The newly identified compound prevents the virus from...

The health department of Cameroon has pledged free treatment to all patients suffering from AIDS. The drugs will be funded by the government and other NGOs like Clinton Foundation and Global Fund. The program is expected to cost about $11.9 million to.

May be there has been noted a significant growth in access to HIV treatment in the year of 2006. However, most of the Asian countries still have a long way to go before cheering up as a report by World health organization reveals that only 19 per cent..

After countries like United States, Brunei, China, Iraq, South Korea, Moldavia, Russia and Saudi Arabia, perhaps it is turn of Australia to embrace discriminating policy against HIV immigrants, as Australian Prime Minister John Howard has also called for.