Keeping up the tradition

AIDS came to US from Haiti say researchers from University of Arizona

Bank's world

AIDS bill put on fast track

Non profits object to provisions in the changed draft

Focus on nutrition of children with HIV: child rights commission

National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach

Bihar faces shortage of HIV drug

Activists blame it on poor coordination between NACO and state; say 20,000 patients at risk

Thirst for profits rises as disease spreads

Even as AIDS spreads throughout the world, Australians are determined to get their share of the profits from the use of a shrub that halts …

AFRICA

The road ahead

AIDS threatens students

The virus within

It may never be possible to eliminate HIV from infected people

Punished for good

Tropical pill

Medicines are for the rich, not for fighting tropical diseases afflicting millions in developing nations. Pharmaceutical companies seem to have …

SOUTH AFRICA

Legal salve

As palliative for AIDS

Blow to anti-AIDS campaign as condom turns taboo subject

The paanwallah-doubling-up-as-a-condom-vendor ad has been taken off the air. Instead, Doordarshan will show a village council member warning …

AIDS transmitted through artificial insemination

Subha (not her real name), 35, had been married for over 10 years, but was still childless. Doctors attributed this condition to her husband's …

If the earthquake wasn't enough

Survivors in Pakistan now risk unsafe blood transfusion

AIDS vaccine under trial

Billions of dollars, 50 years later

Small pox vaccine might have countered HIV  

Dosage of HIV drug may be too low for African-Americans: study

Half of African-Americans have high levels of a protein that helps remove HIV drug maraviroc from the body

‘Dual contraception is a must to avert HIV infection’

Hormonal contraceptives, promoted in developed nations, put health at risk, says a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Sonal …

SOUTH AFRICA

Revising rules

Kenya