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TopNews United States HIV/AIDS Day KGWN One group seeing a rise in HIV/AIDS cases are women. According to the Wyoming Health Department, 23 cases were reported in the state in 2009 and a handful ... Group Raises Awareness About AIDSMyFox Houston March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV / Aids Awareness DayExaminer.com National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Celebrated on March 10theNews Park Forest KSMU Radio -WCIA-3 News -Galesburg Register-Mail all 39 news articles » Read more>>>
Utah Air National Guard aids in Chilean earthquake recovery Deseret News For the first few days, all aid came from within Chile, but then the world's response arrived from the US, China, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and other countries ... and more » Read more>>>
Seattle Post Intelligencer Bill Clinton, Bill Gates unite in foreign aid plea Raw Story Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS and ... Clinton, Gates say US help abroad improves imageThe Associated Press Bill Clinton, Bill Gates Press US Congress for More Spending on Global HealthVoice of America Clinton: Improving foreign health is good policyCNN International Courthouse News Service -The Hill -BusinessWeek all 150 news articles » Read more>>>
AFP - Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria in the world's poorest nations. Read more>>>
Daily Monitor Dealing With HIV & AIDS KELOLAND TV SIOUX FALLS, SD - When AIDS and HIV first became a problem, many people reacted in fear and didn't want any contact with an HIV positive ... Still linking HIV to witchcraftDaily Monitor all 2 news articles » Read more>>>
Boston Globe DC Fights AIDS with Female Condom Drive MyFox Washington DC WASHINGTON, DC - DC has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the country, with 3 percent of all adults and adolescents ... British HIV/AIDS Help Welcomed by SATopNews United States A Better Female CondomNewsweek Revamped Female Condom Gets Promotional Push in USAOL News AFP -The Guardian -SYS-CON Media (press release) all 779 news articles » Read more>>>
AFP - AIDS 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna later this year, will focus on marginalised groups living with the disease, such as injecting drug users in Eastern Europe, organisers said Wednesday. Read more>>>
AFP - African trucking routes, long known as pathways for spreading HIV across borders, have been drawn in new maps that also direct drivers to clinics that treat AIDS, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. Read more>>>
Uganda is unable to offer lifetime treatment to the country’s 350,000 AIDS patients because it can’t afford the $4 billion it would cost to supply them with medication, the Uganda Aids Commission said. The high cost and the continuing increase in the number of infected adults and children makes the “target of achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment impossible to attain ... Read more>>>
London – AIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug cocktails at a time when donors are backing away from the promise of “universal access”, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The WHO recently released new treatment recommendations for people living with HIV... Read more>>>
Poverty elimination can only be achieved by addressing the disproportionate burden of poverty borne by women. Eliminating gender inequality and achieving women's empowerment are essential to achieving all the Millennium Development Goals and so gender issues are increasingly integrated into projects across DFID's research portfolio. This includes research on removing barriers to women’s participat... Read more>>>
India will have to scale up prevention of HIV to avoid having to spend an increasing share of its health budget on treatment of AIDS patients, the World Bank and other agencies said Sunday. New Delhi spends about 5 percent of its $5.4 billion healthcare budget on treating AIDS patients. India with 2.5 million patients is among the top three countries with the highest number of HIV cases, alo... Read more>>>
The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates. The move is an official acknowledgment of the futility of relying solely on the use of male condoms, which have been distributed citywide for nea... Read more>>>
Accra - Most people in the Muslim community do not appreciate the Domestic Violence Act as majority of married Muslim women suffer gender based violence, a Muslim researcher has said. "Gender based violence has become a matter of global concern especially for women since they are the hardest hit by the storm of violence and it was about time the Ghanaian Muslim community addressed it". Hajia F... Read more>>>
HARARE — Since testing positive for HIV six years ago, Cecilia Chinhamo has endured a torrent of verbal abuse from her husband. "My husband shouts at me and calls me a walking corpse," said the 30-year-old Zimbabwean vegetable vendor. "I can only cry when he says that. What else can I do?" Of the 1.6 million Zimbabweans with HIV, 55 percent of are women, according to government statistics. ... Read more>>>
A lawmaker supporting the Reproductive Health Bill seems headed for a collision with the Roman Catholic Church on the issue of condoms. Rep. Janet Garin of Iloilo on Friday accused leaders of the Catholic Church for making a blatant attempt to mislead the public. Garin, a medical doctor, was reacting to recent pronouncements made by some Catholic bishops and leaders who said that condoms can... Read more>>>
The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) applauds efforts by people living with HIV in Uganda to stand up against the proposed “Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009”, and urges HIV service providers in the country to join them by making a clear, collective public statement condemning the proposed legislation and calling for its immediate dissolution. If enacted, this legislation will have a profoundly detr... Read more>>>
The Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual (LGBT) Association (Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais or ABGLT) recently launched an “LGBT Communication Manual” aimed at communication professionals, students and teachers to reduce the use of inappropriate language that prejudices, or perpetuates misunderstandings about the millions Braz... Read more>>>
Wednesday, March 10, marks the fifth annual Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, coordinated by the Office on Women’s Health to educate women and girls about HIV/AIDS prevention and testing. A woman tests positive every 35 minutes in the United States, and 50 percent of the estimated 33.4 million people living with the virus worldwide are women. Read more>>>
The rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men is more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented at the 2010 National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta. Read more>>>
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