One third of pregnant women in South Africa have HIV by Annie Lennox, The Sun, UK -
AIDS has claimed more than 25 million lives worldwide and an estimated 33.2 million people now live with the HIV virus. ...World AIDS Day: Address Needs of Drug Users - Ensure Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment Human Rights Watch -
Governments around the world should adopt and expand needle and syringe exchange programs and effective drug dependency treatment as part of their efforts to address HIV among people who use drugs, Human Rights Watch said today, ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1...
Living With HIV The Silhouette, Canada -
So you’ve made the decision to get tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). You’ve got your result, but where do you go from here? ...
AIDS patients dying in China due to ‘tragic stigma’ Speaking Out for a Group Once Unheard-Of: Aging With AIDS New York Times -
Today, because of antiretroviral therapy and an array of drugs to treat both symptoms and side effects, AIDS has become a chronic condition to be managed, at least in the developed world... Botswana and America celebrate life on World AIDS Day Sunday Standard -
After the introduction of life-saving antiretroviral treatment, this hospice chose instead to mark World AIDS Day with a celebration of life, because the people who were once dying in their care are now living and thriving members of society. In this spirit, on World AIDS Day 2008, we join the people of Botswana in celebrating life.
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Africa’s AIDS fight: Fresh focus on issue of multiple partners Christian Science Monitor, MA -
Johannesburg, South Africa - In the latest season of the popular South African television ... Rick Warren takes on World AIDS Day -- again USA Today -
major religious leaders across the nation are issuing statements today. They're calling on everyone to pay attention to the epidemic and make their own contributions of time, money or political support to combating the causes, expanding the treatments and caring for the victims of HIV/AIDS...Britain is criticised for deporting HIV patients guardian.co.uk, UK -
The government is today, on World Aids Day, accused of double standards for permitting the deportation of people diagnosed in the UK with HIV to countries ... UK funds for S Africa Aids fight BBC News, UK -
The UK is to give South Africa's new health minister Barbara Hogan £15m to help combat Aids in the country. Ms Hogan was appointed health ... Study Cites Toll of AIDS Policy in South AfricaNew York Times -
A Johannesburg AIDS hospice in 2002. From 2000 to 2005, few South Africans got the AIDS drugs they needed, a study found. World AIDS Day Dec 1st BainbridgeGa.com -
World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, shines a light on a disease that continues to spread at home and abroad despite advances in education, treatment and survivability, ... Model Predicts Halt to Africa's AIDS EpidemicWashington Post -
A strategy of testing adults every year for HIV and immediately treating every person found to be infected could virtually end the AIDS ... World AIDS Day a time to renew fight against the disease Tucson Citizen, AZ -
The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day for Dec. 1 to demonstrate the importance of AIDS and show solidarity for the cause. ... 
The kindest cut: How circumcision is the secret weapon in the battle against HIV/AIDS, Independent, UK -
In Zambia, an experiment in the battle with HIV/Aids is producing staggering results. If this were a vaccine trial, the medical world would be hailing it as ... HIV Tests, Treatment for All in Africa May Halt Most New Cases Bloomberg News [John Lauerman] -
Testing everyone for the AIDS virus in hard-hit African countries and treating all infections immediately may ... HIV protection: Could pills work wonders against HIV? Monsters and Critics.com By Gisela Ostwald -
Anti-HIV medicines have rescued tens of thousands or perhaps even millions of people ... Study says HIV could be eliminated in a decade The Associated Press -
LONDON (AP) — The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates are ... An end to the AIDS epidemic? Study provides new reason for hope. New York Daily News, NY -
A shelter in the Congo that cares for children with AIDS. A new study predicts that the disease could be eradicated in 10 years with ... World AIDS Day - A Reminder That HIV Has Not Gone AwayeFluxMedia -
Just days before the World AIDS Day on December 1st, the World Health Organization released a study trying to answer a question that has been ...Universal Testing, Prompt Treatment Could Slash HIV Washington Post -
A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral treatment (ART) following diagnosis of ... WHO suggests universal HIV tests BBC News, UK -
Universal testing for HIV, followed by immediate treatment could cut the number of people developing full-blown Aids by up to 95% ... NGO Warns Economic Crisis Could Re-Ignite AIDS Epidemic Voice of America -
The anti-poverty agency ActionAid is warning that the current economic crisis could re-ignite the global AIDS epidemic. ... South Africa's hidden epidemic Aljazeera.net -
When the Themba Lethu HIV/Aids Clinic opened at Johannesburg's Helen Joseph Hospital in 2005, the focus was on saving lives ... S Africa's AIDS programme carries legacy of denialism AFP -
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — Every morning at 8:00 am, after his mobile phone alarm goes off, Thabo Moloi reaches for his pill box and swallows two small ... US Leaders Celebrate Life on World AIDS Day NewsBlaze, By Daniel Gorelick -
Washington - For World AIDS Day, December 1, United States leaders are calling on Americans to celebrate life and commemorate those who ... A New Treatment Could Prevent HIV, eFluxMedia by Christian Coley -
A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral treatment ... New network will improve HIV/AIDS treatment Insciences Organisation, Switzerland -
Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Robert Hogg, who is internationally known for his understanding of infectious diseases, will head Canada’s ... Early detection cuts Aids risk Straits Times, Singapore -
PARIS - Universal and voluntary testing for HIV and early access to antiretroviral drugs could slash infections of the Aids virus by 95 per cent within a ... Faulty AIDS policies caused 365000 early deaths in SAfrica: study AFP -
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The failure to provide anti-retrovirals to AIDS patients in South Africa led to the premature deaths of 365000 people between 2000-2005 ... Complacency about AIDS heightens risks, experts say (News Feature) Monsters and Critics.com -
Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the developed world are ...Hope finds a ravaged land The Age, Australia -
Bokomuso, 3, gets a scrub from his new sister, Nomhle, who came to live with the family in Soweto after her mother died of AIDS. ... Maybe AIDS Treatment Is Also AIDS Prevention Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY -
Two of the great hopes for AIDS prevention — vaccines and microbicides — have yet to pan out. So researchers are looking more closely at the hiding-in-plain ...Wyoming HIV/AIDS Program Adds Increasing Number of ClientsKaiser network.org, DC -
The number of new clients enrolled in an HIV/AIDS program in Wyoming is increasing, with some experts attributing the rise to a greater number of people ...Money Delayed is ARVs Denied AllAfrica.com, Washington -
South Africa's newly sworn-in Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, came head-to-head with her first real crisis when antiretroviral (ARV) treatment was withheld ...Lancet Publishes Opinion Pieces on HIV Prevention, Epidemic in China Kaiser network.org, DC -
The Lancet on Saturday published two editorials about HIV prevention and China's HIV/AIDS epidemic. Summaries appear below. ...Radio Head: an Aids anniversary Times Online, UK -
Can you remember where you were when you first heard of acquired immune deficiency syndrome? For me it was 1982. I was working on a men’s magazine in South ...
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