| JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Doctors and activists say AIDS patients aren't getting treated because of a nationwide civil service strike in South Africa, the country with the most people infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
DARMSTADT, Germany (Canadian Press) -- A German singer facing accusations that she infected a man with the virus that causes AIDS acknowledged in court Monday that she had unprotected sex despite knowing she was HIV-positive.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials in Washington, D.C., have launched a citywide effort to promote the use of female condoms, in hopes making them available can help stop the spread of HIV in that city.
KAMPALA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- International programmes fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS are facing a ten-billion-dollar shortfall this year, the head of UNAIDS said Monday in the Ugandan capital Kampala.
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N.'s top investigator on torture and punishment warned Friday that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS.
VIENNA (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have pledged the support of the United States in the global fight against AIDS.
VIENNA (AP) -- Rich countries must give more for the fight against AIDS or risk jeopardizing progress in battling the disease, participants at an international conference urged Thursday.
VIENNA (AP) -- Thousands of AIDS activists rallied in downtown Vienna with singer Annie Lennox Tuesday to demand more rights for people with the disease.
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. AIDS agency has tapped some big names -- including former basketball star Magic Johnson -- to boost global efforts to prevent the spread of HIV.
VIENNA (AP) -- Experts and activists are warning that AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is on the rise even as a global conference reports progress on other fronts.
PRAGUE (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- For Pepino, a 44-year-old Czech drug addict, needle exchanges are a routine affair. He started doing it in 1986, three years before the Velvet Revolution ended Communist rule and opened his country to visitors from around the world.
(Associated Press) -- For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won't use condoms.
VIENNA (AP) -- Two heavy hitters on the world health stage -- Bill Clinton and Bill Gates -- called Monday for a more efficient fight worldwide against the AIDS virus.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind.
VIENNA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Governments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia need to reach out to street children and mothers infected with the AIDS virus if the region's epidemic -- the fastest growing in the world -- is to be reversed, a United Nations report said Monday.
VIENNA (AP) -- World leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with HIV and AIDS gets treatment, the head of a meeting dedicated to the disease said Sunday.
VANCOUVER (Canadian Press) -- Two Vancouver-based groups that do research on HIV-AIDS and drug policy say the war on drugs waged by many governments, including the government of Canada, has failed to curb illegal drug use and is actually fuelling the spread of the disease.
(Associated Press) -- Provocative new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: It cuts the risk that they will infect others.
VIENNA (AP) -- The number of people taking crucial AIDS drugs climbed by a record 1.2 million last year to 5.2 million overall, the World Health Organization said Monday -- but Bill Clinton says that's still not nearly enough.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- The White House on Tuesday announced the nation's most sweeping national strategy ever for fighting HIV/AIDS, an effort that aims to cut infection rates by 25 percent in five years by shifting money to help gay and African American men who are at highest risk of contracting the disease.
LONDON (AP) -- The number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to a new report by a U.N. agency.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- President Barack Obama is trying to bring home some of the much-lauded strategies his predecessor used to fight AIDS around the world.
(USA TODAY) -- President Obama will gather AIDS experts at the White House today to launch the first national strategy designed to cut new infections, boost the number of people who get tested and treated, and reduce disparities in access to care.
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- US scientists have discovered the most effective HIV antibodies to date which can be used to find a vaccine for the virus, Science reported Thursday.
VIENNA (AP) -- Policies that criminalize drug users fuel the spread of AIDS and should be reformed, experts preparing for an international conference said Monday.
GENEVA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- The United Nations launched a commission Thursday to investigate punitive laws that it says harm global efforts to respond to the decades-old HIV epidemic.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Canadian Press) -- Guy Jacobson says he doesn't know how to stop natural disasters, but knows how to "sabotage businesses" that make money using children for sex.
MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) -- Swaziland's death rate more than doubled in a decade, proof of the toll of AIDS, statisticians in this southern African kingdom said Wednesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- South African surgeons have transplanted kidneys between donors and patients who were both infected with the AIDS virus - a medical first that has some U.S. doctors buzzing about whether it could be tried here.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Thousands of South African protesters marched on the U.S. consulate Thursday to demand the U.S. increase its AIDS funding for Africa, weeks after U.S. officials said their biggest AIDS fund would not substantially rise.
(USA TODAY) -- The punishment is brutal -- three push-ups -- each time one of the children kicks a soccer ball into a cone.
LONDON (Canadian Press) -- Officials urged Bristol-Myers Squibb not to shut down a plant in France which makes AIDS drugs, saying the move will jeopardize the lives of thousands of babies.
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) -- Supporters of three HIV-positive women in Namibia who say they were sterilized without their consent held protests to support the women's decision to sue the government, a legal aid group said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Katitia Pitts stands before a small group of people at a health centre in Washington and waves a female condom in the air.
LONDON (AP) -- Child deaths worldwide seem to have fallen faster than officials thought, as a new study estimates far fewer children are dying every year than previously guessed by the United Nations.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Try after try to make vaginal creams that could repel the AIDS virus have failed. Now researchers are testing if a drug used to treat HIV infection finally might give women a tool to prevent it - by infusing the medicine into vaginal gels and contraceptive-style rings.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- Health experts are holding up a perhaps unlikely country as a model for fighting AIDS in drug users: Iran.
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- It took two years of secret suffering and gut-wrenching diarrhea to make Lumkile Sizila face the fact that he had HIV.
MOSCOW (AP) -- A respected online publication claims that an AIDS outbreak at two children's hospitals in the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan has killed at least 14 children and left 133 infected with HIV.
NEW YORK (Canadian Press) -- New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday.
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