10 facts about HIV/AIDS: World AIDS Day
Despite major advances, HIV/AIDS remains one of the world's most significant public health challenges, particularly in low and middle income countries, with new diagnoses every year and young women in...
View ArticleUNAIDS urges countries across Africa to Fast-Track their response to HIV...
(Source: UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) UNAIDS urges countries across Africa to Fast-Track their response to HIV GENEVA/HARARE, 29 November 2015-At the opening of the 18th...
View ArticleAdolescent deaths from AIDS have tripled since 2000, UNICEF study finds
(CNN)The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled in the past 15 years despite efforts to curb infections, with the majority of cases reported in sub-Sahara Africa, the United Nations...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day 2015 (CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
(Source: CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The Time to Act Is Now December 1 is World AIDS Day, an opportunity for people to work actively and collaboratively with partners around the...
View ArticleUN health agency urges expanding antiretroviral therapy to all people living...
(Source: UN - United Nations) 30 November 2015 - Expanding antiretroviral therapy to all people living with HIV is the key to ending the AIDS epidemic within a generation, the World Health Organization...
View ArticleSwaziland Likely To Be First To Eliminate Malaria In Southern Africa (UCSF -...
(Source: UCSF - University of California, San Francisco) The Malaria Elimination Group, an independent international advisory group on malaria elimination convened by the Global Health Group at the...
View ArticleUN health agency urges expanding antiretroviral therapy to all people living...
Print 30 November 2015 Expanding antiretroviral therapy to all people living with HIV is the key to ending the AIDS epidemic within a generation, the World Health Organization announced today on the...
View ArticleGetting to Zero AIDS Infections
Carol Pearson WASHINGTON— An HIV prevention specialist tells a young man in New York: "The test is very simple... there is no blood involved." She hands him a testing swab that he slides along his...
View Article£8bn shortfall in tackling Aids threatens 'millions of lives', report says
In a report to mark World Aids Day, the One group warns that lack of funds jeopardises global efforts to bring the HIV and Aids epidemic under control...
View ArticleOn World AIDS Day, Mylan Announces Plans to be the First to Market...
HERTFORDSHIRE, England, BANGALORE, India and PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mylan N.V. (NASDAQ, TASE: MYL) today announced that it expects to be the first to launch, upon regulatory approval...
View ArticleA fast-track to end the AIDS epidemic
Home to the third-largest number of people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific, Indonesia is a country critical to ending the AIDS epidemic in the region and on this World AIDS Day we are at a...
View ArticleQ&A: Can the AIDS epidemic be eradicated by 2030?
In a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the eve of World AIDS Day on December 1, the global health body claimed the world was poised to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. According...
View ArticleWHO Urges Antiretroviral Treatment for All With HIV
VOA News The World Health Organization is marking World AIDS Day on Tuesday by emphasizing the need to expand antiretroviral therapy to all those living with HIV. The U.N. health agency says about 16...
View ArticleUSC experts talk treatment on World AIDS Day (USC - University of Southern...
(Source: USC - University of Southern California) World AIDS Day is commemorated Dec. 1. (Photo/Jayel Aheram) Today marks World AIDS Day — a commemoration that the World Health Organization began 27...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day 'Test For Ticket' Concert In Zambia Tests Over 10,000 For...
LUSAKA, Zambia, Dec. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Muchimba Music Foundations' Zed Me Free Concert was a resounding success, playing deep into the night last Saturday at Lusaka Zambia's...
View ArticleAccelerate Expansion Of Antiretroviral Therapy To People Living With HIV
Ahead of the World AIDS Day on Tuesday,December 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasized the need to expand antiretroviral therapy to all people living with HIV, saying it is key to ending...
View Article$12 Billion Annual Gap Threatens Fight against HIV/AIDS
Ramon Taylor NEW YORK— For global health advocates, December 1 is an opportunity to focus the world's attention on the fight against AIDS. The international health day was established to support the...
View ArticleMeia Release:World AIDS day 2015 (Department of Agriculture, Forestry and...
(Source: Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Republic of South Africa) 1 December World AIDS Day is commemorated each year on the 1st of December and is an opportunity for every...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day 2015: Bringing Hope of an AIDS-Free Future (Elizabeth Glaser...
(Source: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation) By Florence Ngobeni-Allen, EGPAF Ambassador | December 1, 2015 Florence with her sons, Alex and Kulani Eric Bond In my home country of South Africa,...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Marks World AIDS Day with Major New Global Commitments to...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on its 25-year legacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) today announced four new public-private partnerships...
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