AIDS
UN chief says world on way to ‘generation free of AIDS’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the world was headed for a “generation free of AIDS”, after UNAIDS reported a 35-percent drop...
Europe on edge: Paris police nab terror suspects, Germans arrest extremists
Police arrested a dozen people suspected of providing “logistical support” to the Islamist militant gunmen in last week’s Paris killings,...
Bruce Springsteen, Chris Martin stand in for Bono at Times Square AIDS show
The heads of the E Street Band and Coldplay filled in for the still-recovering Bono in a Times Square concert in New York to rally support for fighting...
World Aids Day: WHO warning as China says 500,000 living with HIV
The World Health Organization issued a call to action to China Monday over HIV/AIDS as government figures said nearly half a million people are living...
HIV infections rise in Brazil, thwarting long record of prevention efforts
While HIV infection rates have begun declining in many other places, cases have been slowly rising in Brazil — with the sharpest jump among youths 15...
AIDS circumcision campaign lifted by new evidence
A campaign to encourage circumcision among men in sub-Saharan Africa to help protect them against the AIDS virus was backed by new research on Monday showing...
AIDS epidemic could be vanquished worldwide by 2030, U.N. says
Global AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections have fallen by over a third in a decade, raising hopes of beating the killer disease by 2030, the United...
AIDS epidemic could be stopped by 2030 ‘in every region, in every country’
New HIV infections and deaths from AIDS are decreasing, the United Nations said on Wednesday, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually...
Egyptian military backtracks on AIDS and Hepatitis C cure claims
Egypt’s military said Saturday that a device it claimed it invented to cure AIDS and hepatitis C needs six more months of testing.
'Nonsensical': Uganda's proposed HIV/Aids bill comes under fire
Activists in Uganda are urging their president to reject a bill passed by parliament that will make it criminal to deliberately infect another person with...
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