HIV/AIDS
HIV and AIDS Facts
FAQ and fast facts about HIV/AIDS:
FAQ and fast facts about HIV/AIDS:
- What does AIDS stand for?
AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. - What does HIV stand for?
HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. - What is the immune system?
The immune system is a collection of mechanisms within the human body that protects against disease, detecting and fighting off a wide variety of agents from viruses to bacteria. - What is the Difference Between HIV and AIDS?
A person is said to be HIV positive if that person is infected with HIV virus. A person is said to have AIDS if the person has HIV infection and also certain signs and symptoms of AIDS disease. In short, HIV is the virus, and AIDS is the disease that it causes. Testing positive for HIV virus does not become AIDS until immune system is compromised which usually takes ten years. There are phases of HIV infection and AIDS is the final stage. Learn more on HIV infection and early symptoms of HIV/AIDS, what is HIV, what is AIDS, ways that the HIV virus is transmitted, and how does AIDS affect the body. - What is STD?
A Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) is a disease that is passed from one person to another due to sexual activity. - Causes of HIV infection, HIV/AIDS Symptoms, Treatment for HIV and AIDS
- See Early symptoms of HIV and AIDS article for information on first and early stage HIV/AIDS symptoms.
- See HIV and AIDS Facts article for information on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and how is HIV/AIDS treated.
- More articles listed below on this page with information on signs and symptoms of HIV infection, what causes AIDS, HIV virus transmission, AIDS prevention, HIV testing, treatment for HIV, medications and cure for AIDS.
- See HIV/AIDS Vaccine topic.
- History of AIDS
- HIV/AIDS Statistics - How many people in the world have AIDS?
According to the current AIDS statistics published in July 2008, UNAIDS/WHO estimated that 32.9 million people were living with HIV/AIDS worldwide as of end of 2007. This is up from 29.5 million in 2001. HIV/AIDS has been a global epidemic for more than 25 years.
AIDS Treatment and Eradication Scaling New Heights
AIDS treatment and eradication is one of the few goals that has the entire world working on it, boundaries and armies forgotten. Let's find out the latest on it.
HIV Case Hits California Porn Industry Hard
California pornography industry, despite best efforts to stem the cases of serious sexually transmitted infections, has seen a new HIV case recently, sending concern throughout the industry.
Famous People Who Died of AIDS
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a disease of the human immune system, caused by the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). Read on to know about some famous people who died of AIDS.
History of World AIDS Day
December 1, 2008 marked the twentieth anniversary of World AIDS Day. Read the history of World AIDS Day.
Walking the Rainbow: An Arc to Triumph
New book by René Silvin shares with readers Silvin's battles, both won and lost, on the pathway to understanding and struggling with the war against AIDS.
HIV Facts - Facts About AIDS
HIV is a virus that gradually weakens the body’s immune system, till the body can no longer fight off infections.
Man Gets Life in Prison for Exposing Women to HIV
A Kansas City man who previously spent time in jail for knowingly exposing his partners to the HIV virus was given a life sentence Tuesday for doing it again.
HIV/AIDS – Early Symptoms of HIV Infection
AIDS, one of the deadliest pathological condition, human race has ever seen can be hard to diagnose by mere recognizing Early Symptoms of HIV Infection. However, immediate diagnostic tastes can be taken and should be monitored regularly if you witness such symptoms…
Government Wants Routine HIV Testing for Americans
The Centers for Disease Control says that all Americans should be checked routinely for HIV as often as any other blood test.
NC Restaurant Settles Suit with HIV-Positive Cook
A former cook at a locally owned restaurant in Wrightsville Beach was fired when the owners learned he was HIV-positive, and the restaurant was forced to settle with the cook in order to avoid a costly court battle.
AIDS - How HIV Infects T-helper Cells?
AIDS epidemic has survived for past two decades and it is still finding new hosts in the form of those who practice unsafe sex, those who use syringe used by an infected patient or those who receive blood from an infected person. Although most of us know how AIDS spreads, it is still very much important to make those remaining people aware of the danger who does not know facts of AIDS.
AIDS - Where Did AIDS Come From?
AIDS is an acronym for the disease called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. More than 24 million people have lost their lives after falling prey to AIDS over last two decades (Please note that the number of deaths caused due to the disease might change). The disease has become most notorious of all the diseases and is spreading very fast among the people all over the world.
The Challenge That is AIDS
Fighting AIDS is one of the causes anybody who is somebody wants to be associated with… it means sharing the platform with the Rich and the Famous. But how much has actually been done where AIDS is a real threat?
The Naked Truth About Porn
A lot has been written about the porn industry but most of them fall into the genre of true-lies. The recent HIV infections to some of the top performers in the industry has ironically brought out a bit of the truth.
Beyond AIDS Testing
HIV and AIDS testing as a part of one’s healthcare regimen is a critical aspect of both personal and public safety. In 2006 an estimated 56,300 people were infected with HIV.
Protect Yourself from HIV: How?
HIV is transmitted through sexual contact with someone who is already infected. In addition, one may also get infected by using medical equipments used by an infected person such as syringes.
It Bag Returns - This Time With a Conscience
To mark World Aids Day, limited edition of Mulberry Bayswater, goes on sale in Gap stores
World Losing Aids Battle, Minister Warns As £220m Fund Launched
HIV set to spiral out of control unless we act now, says development minister
Fall of the Doctor Who Said His Vitamins Would Cure Aids
Denouncer of conventional medicines drops libel action against Guardian and is ordered to pay costs
Spread of Hiv/aids Slows As Awareness and Drugs Take Hold
Drop in infection due to cautious sexual behavior and improved treatment, says UN study
HIV/AIDS: Common Gene Makes Africans More Vulnerable to Hiv
A gene that once protected people of African descent from malaria is now making them more susceptible to HIV infection
Stigma Leading to Rise in Hiv Rates, Says Red Cross
Many governments around the world do not want to help high risk groups such as drug users, prostitutes and gay men, the International Red Cross said today
Herbal Supplement for HIV/AIDS is Successful in Clinical Trial
A recently concluded double-blind placebo controlled trial of a herbal supplement Sutherlandia OPC has that it is 100% effective in reversing HIV/AIDS symptoms.
Sarah Boseley
The attempt to reveal the identity of an NHS health worker who is HIV positive is ill-informed and misjudged.
Vitamin Promoter in Hiv Row Drops Libel Suit
Matthias Rath, a German-born vitamin promoter in South Africa, has dropped his libel action against Eric Goemare, the head of Médecins sans Frontières in the country, the Treatment Action Campaign, and an Aids scientist, Jerry Coovadia, who had all accused him of endangering HIV patients' lives.
Discredited Doctor's 'cure' for Aids Ignites Life-and-death Struggle in South Africa
Uncertainty and confusion about the safety of Aids drugs has started to take hold in South Africa as people well placed to get treatment instead turn to lemon and garlic for cure.
Don't Be Too Hard on Harry
A new documentary shows Prince Harry in Aids-torn Africa. A case of cynical rebranding? That's missing the point, says Stephen Moss.
Bono and Hirst Head Art Sale to Fight Aids
Leading artists donate works for auction to raise £14m for Red campaign in Africa
Controversial Figure With a Populist Gift
Profile: Whatever else is said about Jacob Zuma - the man who thought a shower prevented HIV infection, and who said that a woman he was accused of raping asked for sex because of the way she was dressed - no one is underestimating his political prowess any more
Aids Quakery in Africa, and Nearer Home
Bed Goldacre: If you were going to be actuarial about media coverage - an eighth of a column inch for each premature death perhaps - then this paper would be filled with diarrhea and Aids. Today is World Aids Day: so come with me on a world tour of Aids quackery
Taboo is Broken, Now We Need Drugs
Testing and treatment for HIV/Aids are slow to reach much of rural Uganda
UN Lowers Estimate of Worldwide Hiv/aids Cases By 6m
Change mainly due to better data from India· Scale of pandemic remains vast and is still growing
World Hiv Infection Estimate is Cut
The UN and the World Health Organization significantly cut their estimates of the number of people with the HIV virus today, after a large downward revision of HIV cases in India
HIV-infected Condoms Sent to Kill Africans, Claims Archbishop
Mozambique's Roman Catholic archbishop has accused European condom manufacturers of deliberately infecting their products with HIV "in order to finish quickly the African people".
Campaigners Attack Uk Over Aids Funding
The British government was yesterday accused of breaking its G8 pledge to help defeat Aids when it revealed it would only marginally increase its contribution to the Global Fund for Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
The Minister and the Liver Transplant - South Africa's Aids Row Gets Personal
As South Africa's health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has been vilified as an accomplice to genocide for failing to provide treatment for the millions of people with HIV. She has been the subject of international ridicule for promoting garlic and vitamins as an alternative to Aids drugs. And she has survived it all.
Aids Activists Furious at Sacking By Mbeki
The South African president, Thabo Mbeki, has sparked outrage among Aids activists by firing the highly popular deputy health minister on what they claimed were trumped up charges.
Sarkozy Flies to Libya to Reap Rewards of Medics' Release
· Meeting with Gadafy to promote commercial ties · Families of HIV victims outraged at pardons
Gadafy Frees Bulgarian Health Workers in Hiv Case As Eu Promises Help for Libya
· Six maintained they did not infect 426 children · Ordeal ends on eve of French leader's Tripoli trip
EU to Boost Libya Ties After Bulgarian Medics Freed
Libya will enjoy closer ties with the EU after striking a deal which has seen the release of six medics convicted of infecting hundreds of children with HIV.
Gadafy Repairs Relations With the West
The release of six medics accused of infecting hundreds of children with HIV clears the way for Libya's return to the international fold, writes Ian Black
Sarkozy's Wife Flies to Libya to Help Free Hiv Medics
An ordeal of death sentences and eight years in jail for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor appeared to be approaching a happy ending last night in Libya when France's first lady and a European commissioner arrived in Tripoli hoping to secure their release.
Malawi to Test All Sexually Active Adults for Hiv
The Malawian government launched a campaign yesterday to test all sexually active adults for HIV to try to identify thousands of people infected with the virus.
India Slashes Estimate of Hiv Numbers
New figure of 2.47m is less than half previous count - Latest statistics based on more reliable survey
Medical Staff Held in Libya 'could Be Freed in Weeks'
Hope for six accused of giving children HIV - Court ruling near as £25m compensation fund grows
G8 Leaders Pledge $60bn to Fight Aids and Provide Free Schooling in Africa
On the last day of the G8 summit in Germany, the world's leaders pledge $60bn towards the fight against Aids and for free schooling in Africa, but aid groups say it is less than was promised at the summit in Gleneagles two years ago
US Doubles Funds in Fight Against Aids
George Bush announced today that the US plans to spend $30bn (£15bn) over five years in Africa and elsewhere to combat HIV/Aids.
US to Spend Extra $30bn to Fight Hiv/aids, Pledges Bush
Washington becomes campaign's biggest backer - Critics praise president's commitment to fight
The Battle for Cheap Aids Drugs
David Batty looks at the clash between pharmaceutical firms and developing countries over the right to produce affordable HIV medicines.
Gambia Accused of Aids Subterfuge
One of Africa's leading Aids specialists has accused the Gambian government of covertly obtaining blood tests from his laboratory to try to convince the world of the efficacy of the Gambian president's herbal remedy for the disease.
Portrait Of A Heroine: An Anti-Aids Leader
The article under the title "Portrait Of A Heroine: An Anti-AIDS leader" deals with the biography of Mpule Kwelagobe, one of the most important anti-AIDS activists in the world. She was born in 1979 in Botswana, an African country devastated by HIV and AIDS. There are 42 million people living with HIV and AIDS—65% of them are women, children and young people. Botswana is an example.
Better Global Hiv Treatment Fails to Reach Children
Two million people in poor countries are now being kept alive by Aids drugs, but children still lose out and more money will be needed to reach all those in need, according to a UN report.
Solely Breastfeeding Babies Cuts Hiv Toll
Doctors urge change in UN advice after study finding - Mixed feeding is shown to be the worst option
UN Calls for Mass Circumcision of Men to Tackle Aids Epidemics
Trials find procedure reduces infection by 60% - Programmes expected to focus on African nations
Children Born With Hiv Survive Into Teens
Children infected with HIV at birth are surviving into adolescence, overturning the assumption that virtually all die before the age of five, doctors working in Zimbabwe will reveal this week.
UN Agency Accused of Impeding Hiv Fight
A United Nations agency has been accused of hampering the fight against HIV/Aids by opposing measures that would reduce the soaring number of infections among injecting drug users.
Italian Organ Donor Was Hiv Positive
Three patients at a hospital in Florence were given transplants using organs from a donor who was HIV positive because of a mistake made on a laboratory form, Italian health officials said yesterday.
HIV Rates Hamper World Cup Preparations
Soccer: The Aids crisis in South Africa is reportedly damaging the £21bn stadium and infrastructure building project ahead of the country hosting the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
Fashion Factor Fuels Iran's Aids Fears
Deals between prostitutes and boutique owners are raising fears over the spread of HIV in Iran, writes Robert Tait.
Study Shows Circumcision Can Halve Hiv Risk
Trial outcome could mean huge cut in infection rates - Aids campaign group says results are a milestone
Breakthrough Hailed As Study Shows Circumcision Can Halve Hiv Risk
Trial outcome could mean huge cut in infection rates - Aids campaign group says results are a milestone
Aids Plan Seeks to Halve Infection Rate in Five Years
South Africa used World Aids Day yesterday to launch a five-year plan to combat the disease that will focus on cutting the number of new infections by half and getting drugs to 80% of those in need by 2011.
South Africa Ends Long Denial Over Aids Crisis
New policy dumps diet as alternative to treatment - Ministers to pledge drugs for all in need by 2010
Flight Tax Funds Children's Hiv Drugs
At least 100,000 HIV-positive children are to receive low-cost drugs for life, using money raised by a tax on flying.
Ad Agencies Join Forces World Aids Day
Advertising giants have joined forces for a HIV awareness campaign. By Meg Carter.
Reported Hiv/aids Cases Up 30% in China
China reported a 30% increase in cases of HIV/Aids this year as the disease spreads more rapidly from high-risk groups to the general population.
Rich Countries 'blocking Cheap Drugs for Developing World'
· US and EU have broken Doha pledges, says Oxfam · Stop Aids claims 75% of HIV patients not treated
Zimbabwe's Hairdressers Join Hiv Fight
Zimbabwean hairdressers will offer counselling and condoms to their clients as part of an innovative programme to reduce HIV infection, backed by a £20m grant from the British government.
Mbeki Urged to Sack Ally Over Hiv Views
· Health minister advocates vegetables to manage Aids · Letter from 81 experts to South African president
HIV-positive South Africans Seek Asylum in Canada
· 130 women stay on after UN Aids conference · Mbeki government under fire for its drug policy
G8 Accused of Failing Africa Over Aids Funds
UN special envoy Stephen Lewis yesterday accused the G8 countries of betraying Africa by their failure to find the money to fulfil their Gleneagles promise on the treatment, care and prevention of Aids.
HIV Treatment on Rise But Still Falls Short
· 10-fold increase in number of Africans receiving drugs · But total treated in world is well below WHO target
Aids Orphans More Likely to Contract Hiv, Says Un Report
More than 15 million children in sub-Saharan Africa will have lost one or both parents to Aids by 2010, according to a UN report which says the world has failed youngsters affected by the pandemic.
Time Has Come for New Phase in Fight Against Aids, Conference Told
Twenty-five years after the Aids pandemic began, the world has to move from crisis management to a sustained response that could mean keeping millions of impoverished people on costly drugs for 30 or 40 years.
HIV Risk to Indian Economic Boom
The HIV virus could cause huge damage to the fast-growing Indian economy, opening a 11,000bn rupee (£140bn) hole in the nation's balance sheet, says a UN report released today.
Washington Plans Hiv Tests for All Residents Aged 14 to 84
The city of Washington will this week launch an unprecedented campaign to test every resident aged between 14 and 84 for the HIV virus.
Court Orders Jail to Give Inmates Aids Drugs
A group of prisoners with HIV/Aids in South Africa obtained a court ruling this week ordering their jail to supply anti-retroviral drugs.
SA Aids Prisoners to Get Anti-retrovirals
A group of prisoners with HIV/Aids in South Africa obtained a court ruling this week ordering their jail to supply anti-retroviral drugs.
40% of Public Servants Believe Aids Can Be Cured
Nearly 40% of South Africa's public sector workers believe HIV/Aids can be cured, a survey revealed this week.
South Africa Aids Muddle Highlighted
Nearly 40% of South Africa's public sector workers believe HIV/Aids can be cured, a survey revealed this week, underlining what critics say is the ignorance and disarray in the country's fight against the pandemic.
Aids Pandemic Spreading to Every Corner of Globe, Says Un
· 65 million people have been infected worldwide · Countries' response is 'nowhere near adequate'
UN: Aids Pandemic Spreading
· 65 million people have been infected worldwide · Countries' response is 'nowhere near adequate'
Hunt for Origin of Hiv Pandemic Ends at Chimpanzee Colony in Cameroon
· Animals found with virus strikingly similar to HIV · Butchered chimps' blood may have infected hunters
New Hiv Row As South African Who Shunned Drugs Dies
South Africa was embroiled in a fresh HIV/Aids row yesterday after the disease killed a politician's daughter who shunned anti-retroviral drugs in favour of a diet of garlic, olive oil and lemons.
Libyan Hiv Trial Refuses Defendants Bail
Libyan judges retrying five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus today rejected their request to be released on bail.
Drug Firms Seek to Stop Generic Hiv Treatment
Multinational drug firms have begun to seek patents for Aids drugs in India, a main source of cheap treatments, provoking protests from campaigners and patients who say this will stifle supplies of affordable therapies.
A Case That Exposed the Cracks Beneath the Post-apartheid Glow
In 26 days of testimony, the world learned about fractious rulers, overt chauvinism and shocking disarray in the fight against Aids, problems left unchanged by yesterday's acquittal.
Jacob Zuma Cleared of Rape
The former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma was today cleared of raping an HIV-positive female friend in a case that has alarmed Aids campaigners and jeopardised his political future.
Outpost of Hope in the War on Aids in Africa
In a town struggling to cope with HIV, a project founded by a local doctor is offering people new hope.
HIV Infections Fall By a Third in Southern India
HIV infections in southern India have fallen by a third over a four-year period, raising hopes that the tide of the disease could be reversed in one of the country's worst-hit regions.
Legal Rights for Aids Patients
Chinese patients with HIV-Aids will be legally protected from discrimination under a law unveiled yesterday.
Dramatic Fall in Zimbabwe Hiv Infections
· About 49% fewer young women test positive · Reduction attributed to sex education programs
Open Door
The readers' editor on ... an appeal to help people with HIV/Aids in Africa. By Ian Mayes
HIV/Aids Epidemic Less Severe Than Feared
China's HIV/Aids epidemic is less severe than previously thought, according to official figures yesterday endorsed by the UN.
Clinton Strikes Deal for Cheaper Aids Drugs and Fast Hiv Tests
President Clinton's Foundation has struck a deal to bring down the price of second-line Aids drugs, needed to keep people alive once resistance to the medicines now being rolled out in Africa has developed, and rapid HIV tests.
Aids in Africa: the Lake Where Locals Say It's Easier to Catch Hiv Than Fish
Poverty and war divide families and create the perfect conditions for disease to flourish.
Doctors Who Put Lives Before Profits
Rapid test kits for HIV and chlamydia could help transform the health of the poorest communities.
Zambia Struggles With Power of Witchdoctors
MSF is educating southern Africans about the cause of Aids and effective treatment.
Where the Stigma of Aids Became the Killer
A new frankness has replaced darkly ironic euphemisms as Khayelitsha battles to overcome epidemic.
Christmas Appeal: How an Aids Widow is Filling the Care Gap
In African villages ravaged by HIV, volunteers are taking the pressure off MSF doctors by giving advice.
South Africa's Townships Battle Double Trouble
MSF clinics are pioneering new treatments to tackle the deadly link between HIV and TB.
War is Over But Ivorians Are Still Paying the Price: Poverty, Desperation and Infection
The latest of our reports looks at Ivory Coast where, amid a fragile peace, Medècins sans Frontières is vital in tackling a growing HIV/Aids epidemic.
Healthy Basics That Keep Killer at Bay
The Guardian visits a clinic in Malawi where MSF is fighting malnutrition, a major factor in the onset of Aids Human toll
Lifeline for Victims of Sexual Aggression
The latest of our reports looks at Burundi, where a clinic is helping to counter the HIV threat posed by rape.
This Hiv-positive Girl is Lucky. 99% of Mozambican Children Get No Treatment
Today we begin a series of reports from Africa, where your money can help those with the Aids virus.
Fight Against Aids or See Africa Destroyed
The west must commit unprecedented levels of resources or risk a nightmare scenario: the destruction of Africa
Aids Virus Spreads to 40 Million People, But Still Governments Understate the Pandemic
· Five million more people infected last year, says UN · Asia singled out as being particularly at risk
'More Than 40 Million' Living With Hiv
The number of people worldwide living with HIV has topped 40 million for the first time, according to a UN report released today.
Global Campaign to Help Child Aids Victims
Unicef today said it was a "disgrace" that more than 95% of children with Aids around the world were not receiving any treatment.
US Approves Home Tests for Hiv Despite Suicide Fears
· Check on saliva gives diagnosis in 20 minutes · Kits would need change of law to allow sale in UK
Cash Plea to Fight Africa's Forgotten Diseases That Kill 500,000 a Year
· Cheap cocktail of drugs 'would help millions'
· Small fraction of malaria, HIV and TB funds needed
African Governments 'neglect Schooling of Aids Orphans'
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa are failing to remove the barriers to education faced by children affected by HIV and Aids, a new report claims.
Sex, Lies and Celluloid: Doctors Hit Out at Hollywood
Films failing to show dangers of sex and drugs as the HIV/Aids are pandemic ignored in top 200 movies.
Mother Who Denied Aids Link Faces Police Investigation After Death of Daughter
The leader of an American movement challenging conventional science on Aids is being investigated for child endangerment after her three-year-old daughter died of the disease.
Rich Countries Row Over Cash to Fight Disease
Representatives of the world's richest countries meet today in London to decide how much each will put into the global fund to fight Aids, TB and malaria but while some look prepared to be generous, there are signs that the United States may not want to pay its full share
King Comes Courting 20,000 Virgin Dancers
Swaziland's spectacular Reed Dance sets ritual against rampant HIV and the subjugation of women.
Bush Accused of Aids Damage to Africa
A senior United Nations official has accused President George Bush of "doing damage to Africa" by cutting funding for condoms, a move which may jeopardise the successful fight against HIV/Aids in Uganda.
Aids Grants to Uganda on Hold After Mismanagement Claims
Uganda, a country regarded as a pioneer in the fight against HIV/Aids, was yesterday accused of "serious mismanagement" of funds intended for the campaign.
Gay Mexican Man Granted Asylum in Us
A gay Mexican man with Aids has been granted asylum in the US after a judge ruled he would be in danger of persecution in his home country.
Tackling the Aids Epidemic
More than 14 per cent of the adult population, 810,000 people, in Malawi have HIV or Aids. The disease has swept across the continent where an estimated 25 million adults and children are living with HIV.
Pakistan's Sexual Outcasts at Risk From Hiv, Says Report
Enigmatic Hijra could trigger disease explosion.
Doubt Over India's Hiv Claims
Health campaigners yesterday dismissed claims by the Indian government that the country had shrunk the growth rate of new HIV infections by 95%.
West Side Story: a Tale of Unprotected Sex Which Could Be Link to New Hiv Superbug
New fears for gay men after doctor breaks silence.
Cheap Aids Drugs Under Threat
Body blow to developing states' fight against disease as Indian MPs ban copying of patented products.
African Bishop Spurns Aids Cash From Pro-gay Diocese
An African bishop has announced that he will not accept more than $350,000 of funding to help Aids victims in his area because it comes from an American diocese that supported the election of a gay bishop two years ago.
Aids Could Kill 90 Million Africans, Says Un
Nearly 90 million Africans could die from Aids by 2025 without huge international investment, the UN said today, but 67 million people in Africa would still probably die of the disease.
Deaths Spiral Out of Control in Aids Crisis
South Africa suffers 59pc mortality jump in six years.
Scientists Urge Calm Over Fears of New Hiv Strain
HIV and Aids scientists and advisers on both sides of the Atlantic urged caution yesterday over suggestions that a new fast-acting strain of the HIV virus resistant to most anti-retroviral drugs had emerged in New York.
New Aids Nightmare Shocks Us
A strain of HIV that is highly resistant to almost all anti-retroviral drugs has been detected in New York.
Black Americans Suspect Hiv Plot
Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA, according to a study.
Aids Vaccine Possible By 2012, Brown Tells Africa
An effective Aids vaccine could be found as early as 2012, saving 6 million lives if the world is willing to put £10bn a year into a new programme, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, said in a speech last night in Tanzania.
Mandela's Eldest Son Dies of Aids
Nelson Mandela today revealed that his eldest son, Makgatho, has died of Aids. Mr Mandela's announcement challenged the widespread prejudice against sufferers of the disease in South Africa, which has undermined efforts to tackle the pandemic.
Call for Aids Drugs to Be Free
Aids medicines must be free for everyone who needs them in the developing world, or there will be no hope of reaching the UN target of three million being treated by 2005, doctors, economists and institutions say today.
Aids Worst Disaster in History, Says Un Chief
The HIV/Aids pandemic is the worst catastrophe in history and is blighting childhood across the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations said yesterday.
Battling a Disease of Poverty and Ignorance
In Ethiopia the fight to educate people against the scourge of Aids starts with helping farmers to increase their incomes.
HIV Now a Bigger Threat to Women Than Men
UN calls for social change as infections soar among females.
Reggae Stars 'fuel Spread of Hiv'
Homophobic lyrics prevent people from coming forward for tests, says minister.
Antibiotic Hope for Children With Aids
Deaths among children infected with HIV in Africa could be almost halved if all those with symptoms were put on a simple, cheap and readily available antibiotic, new research has established.
Sex Pioneer Kinsey's Biopic Stirs Up the Right
In the late forties and early fifties, during the height of McCarthyism, Alfred Kinsey's investigations into America's sexual behaviour was so unsettling to the authorities that they branded him a communist, cut his funding and impounded his study aids. Half a century later, as a film...
Tests Lead to Recall of Cheap Aids Drugs
Indian manufacturer's decision is a blow to Africa's anti-HIV battle.
UN Fears Rising Child Sex Trade
The sexual exploitation of children is becoming increasingly widespread because of the greater reach of the internet, the involvement of organised crime, economic pressures and the impact of HIV/AIDS, a UN-organised conference on the issue in Bangkok heard yesterday. Experts warned that...
Mbeki Turns Aids Row Into Race Issue
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has caused a race row by making a scathing attack on white people who link HIV/Aids to the alleged promiscuous and predatory behaviour of black Africans. Mr Mbeki turned a parliamentary debate on HIV and rape into a broadside against "bigots" who he...
Africa: Children Left Orphans By Aids
The UN estimates that 11 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost at least one parent to Aids, by the end of the decade there will be 20 million.
Uganda's Aids Success Story Challenged
Uganda's dramatic progress in combating HIV/Aids has been undermined by a new survey which challenges the country's reputation as a beacon for a continent that is being ravaged by the disease. The non-governmental National Guidance and Empowerment Network, which surveyed 53 of the...
Chinese Walls Come Down
China will have the world's worst Aids epidemic by 2020. But the spread of the disease could also hasten political reform. Jonathan Watts reports.
US Officials Defend Terror Alert
Old surveillance information still aids al-Qaida, say officials.
Botswana: a Beacon of Hope in Africa
With 37% of its adult population HIV-positive, one country has been forced to rewrite the rulebook on tackling the virus.
Aids Conference Told of Lack of Resources to Halt Pandemic
The global response to HIV/Aids is falling far short of what is needed to turn around the pandemic, with only a tiny minority of those affected receiving treatment and prevention programmes patchy, UNAids warned yesterday. Two reports from UNAids at the Bangkok International Aids...
Aids Defeating World's Best Efforts As Record Numbers Are Infected
The lethal spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic across the globe is speeding up, in spite of intensifying efforts of UN agencies, the US, Britain and Europe.
Armed Forces Hit By Hiv
HIV/Aids is devastating Africa's armed forces in a wave of HIV infections driven largely by foreign peacekeeping missions, according to new research. The disease has overtaken combat and malaria as the leading cause of death among soldiers and sailors. Western diplomats and...
Aids Has Hit My Family, Says Mugabe
The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, admitted for the first time yesterday that members of his family had been affected by HIV/Aids. Mr Mugabe told a conference on Aids that unnamed members of his family had become ill from the disease. Describing HIV/Aids as "one of the greatest...
Activists Furious at Limits on Gay Sperm Donors
Gay men will not be able to make anonymous sperm donations because of concerns over the transmission of HIV, the US food and drug administration said yesterday. Its ruling that no men who acknowledged having had homosexual sex within the past five years should be able to become anonymous...
Activists Furious at Us Ban on Gay Sperm Donors
Gay men will not be able to make anonymous sperm donations because of concerns over the transmission of HIV, the US food and drug administration said yesterday. Its ruling that no men who acknowledged having had homosexual sex within the previous five years should be able to become...
US Applauded for U-turn on Cheap Aids Drugs
The US government appeared to have performed a u-turn yesterday by opening the way for American approval and purchase of cheap "pirated" copies of Aids drugs to save the lives of the poor in the regions of the world hardest hit by the pandemic. George Bush has promised $15bn (£8.5bn)...
700,000 South African Children Are Infected With Hiv
More than 700,000 South African children aged 14 years and younger are HIV-positive, according to figures reported yesterday. A survey by the Human Sciences Research Council found that the Aids epidemic was as widespread among the country's young as in the population at large. An...
Bid to Stem Aids Deaths
The world is at a crucial moment in the course of the HIV/Aids epidemic, according to a report from the World Health Organisation.
Medics Face Libyan Firing Squad for 'giving Hiv to Children'
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV were sentenced to death by a Libyan court yesterday. Shouts of approval from spectators in the courtroom greeted the verdicts, but there was also swift condemnation from abroad...
Death Sentence for Medics in Libyan Hiv Case
A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death today for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV. The verdict came at the end of more than five years of investigations and legal proceedings that have come under sharp criticism from...
Zulu Leader Speaks Out on Aids Crisis After Son's Death
The leading South African opposition politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi announced at the weekend that his son had died of Aids. The leader of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom party (IFP) spoke at the funeral of his son, Prince Nelisuzulu Benedict Buthelezi, 53, who died last Wednesday. After a...
Punjab Pays Tartan Homage to Caledonia
Tartan plaids adorn shop windows strewn with sporrans, spats and Glengarry hats. It is a vision of Highland heaven, a homage to Caledonia in the heart of the Pakistani Punjab.
Gifts Used to Lure Aids Business
Pharmacies in New York are offering hairdryers, fax machines, travel cards and bleepers in order to lure Aids patients away from big chains and bring their lucrative prescriptions with them.
China Offers Aids Tests for All
After more than a decade of covering up its HIV problem, the Chinese government announced yesterday that it was offering all of the country's 1.3 billion people free Aids tests. Concerned that the disease may be surging out of control and threatening the growth of the economy, the health...
Black Women in Us 23 Times As Likely to Get Aids Virus
African-American women are 23 times as likely to be infected with the Aids virus as white women and account for 71.8% of new HIV cases among women in 29 US states, government research shows. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit health organisation, has found that in 2001 roughly 67%...
US Firms Try to Block Cheap Aids Drugs
The US, under pressure from its giant pharmaceutical companies, is trying to undermine the use in poor countries of cheap, copycat Aids drugs, made by "pirate", generic companies but validated by the World Health Organisation, campaigners claim. US drug companies want the money promised...
Experts Express Doubts on Anti-aids Birth Drug
Aids experts warned yesterday that Africa should stop using a drug which has been hailed as one of the continent's best tools in fighting the HIV pandemic.
Free Aids Drugs at Last for Children of South Africa
Thousands of children with HIV in South Africa's Western Cape province will receive free anti-Aids drugs, it was announced yesterday, in a move which will provide hope to the rest of the country. Children with the virus who would normally die before adolescence can now expect to stay...
Aids Trial Tests Libya's Commitment to Reform
The trial in Libya of seven foreign medical workers accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV entered its final stage today, as the prosecution and defence presented their final submissions. Six Bulgarians and one Palestinian are charged with knowingly spreading HIV...
Miracle Brings Hope to Thousands Threatened By Aids
Doctor's act of kindness gives HIV-positive Grace a lifeline in stricken Malawi.
Aids Orphan Killed By Grandfather
A Kenyan villager has been arrested for killing his grandson, an Aids orphan, in what he told police was "an act of kindness". Joseph Gitari, 53, said he killed the seven-year-old boy because he suspected the child had HIV. The boy's mother had died of Aids-related complications...
Anti-Aids Measures 'fail Women'
Efforts to fight the HIV/Aids epidemic are failing because they are not reaching women and girls, who are most affected in the poorest countries, according to Peter Piot, executive director of the United Nations Aids programme. "Half of all people affected by HIV are women. In Africa, it...
Matters of Race and Respect
Ian Mayes, the readers' editor, on ... pictures of the dead, and the legitimacy of 'mules'. I have been looking at two complaints dealing, broadly, with the reporting of race. One concerned the publication of the photograph of a Kenyan man who had died as a result of Aids.
Bigamist Passed Hiv Recklessly
A bigamist from South Africa who admitted infecting a woman with HIV was jailed for six years yesterday for recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm on his victim. Kouassi Michel Adaye, 40, who pleaded guilty on Friday, came to Britain five years ago, claiming asylum. He was described...
Aids Activist Murdered in Gang Rape
An Aids activist in South Africa was gang raped and then beaten to death after telling her attackers she was infected with the HIV virus, it has emerged.
Rory Carroll on Two Emissaries to Africa's Hiv Victims
Larry Mims and Carlos Cordero are strong, healthy - and have both had HIV for more than a decade. Now they are in Africa showing sufferers there that they too can survive the disease. Rory Carroll reports.
11m Lose Parents to Aids
More than 11 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have now lost one or both parents to Aids, and the fast-rising death toll suggests that within seven years the number will have climbed to 20 million, says Unicef, the UN children's organisation. This is only the start of a major crisis,...
Mbeki Ups Aids Spending
South Africa will nearly quadruple its spending on HIV/Aids, a big step by President Thabo Mbeki's government to deal with the pandemic. South Africa has the highest number of people with HIV/Aids in the world, with an estimated 5.3 million - more than 12% of the population - infected. An...
China Refuses to Face Growing Hiv Crisis
Jonathan Watts in Xiongqiao village, Henan province, the ground zero of an epidemic threatening millions. Chang Sun's wife is HIV positive. So is his mother. So is his aunt. So is his cousin and his cousin's wife. So is the woman next door and, probably, so is her husband. In fact, it is quite possible that almost every adult and many of the children in his small, remote village are infected.
Ruling Opens the Door for Cut-price Hiv Drugs
Pharmaceutical companies charging unfair prices for essential Aids medicines, says South African commission.
Photographs From Stars Aid Charity Auction
Displaying a heretofore hidden scope to their talents, celebrities such as Hugh Grant, Justin Timberlake and Dannii Minogue have donated photos they have taken themselves to a charity auction, Fashion Acts, to raise money for HIV/Aids sufferers. More than 40 names familiar to readers of...
HIV Hitting Young at Rate of One Every 14 Seconds
The spread of Aids among adolescents may significantly slow the growth of the world's population, a United Nations report warned yesterday. About 6,000 youngsters become infected with the HIV virus every day, the equivalent of one every 14 seconds, according to the UN Population Fund...
Aids Could Slash World Population Growth, Warns Un
The spread of Aids among adolescents may significantly slow the growth of the world's population, a United Nations report warned yesterday. About 6,000 youngsters become infected with the HIV virus every day, the equivalent of one every 14 seconds, according to the UN Population Fund...
Call for 'dishonest' Mbeki to Apologise for Aids Gaffe
Five million South Africans have HIV - and one of his staff died from Aids - but the President denies knowing any victims of the disease. Andrew Meldrum in Pretoria reports on the leader's latest controversy.
Deal Reached Over Cheap Drugs for Poor Nations
A deal to provide cheap versions of life-saving drugs to the world's poor was finally agreed at Geneva this weekend after an impassioned appeal from several Aids-ravaged countries in Africa. Next month's crucial World Trade Organisation summit at Cancun, Mexico, appeared in jeopardy on...
US ends funds for African Aids programme
The US government has cut off funds to an Aids programme for refugees in Africa - six weeks after President George Bush toured the continent promising to fight the disease - because it objects to the activities of one of the aid agencies involved, Marie Stopes International.
Rage lingers after Mbeki acts on Aids
South African Aids and HIV sufferers and health workers yesterday welcomed the turn-around by President Thabo Mbeki's government to allow life-saving anti-retroviral drugs to reach the public.
Pretoria Reverses Aids Policy
The South African health minister reversed the government's long-standing Aids policy yesterday by announcing her support for the use of anti-retroviral drugs in public hospitals. The statement by Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is expected to bring cabinet approval for a phased introduction of...
Outrage at New Block on Aids Drug
South Africa's first national Aids conference opened yesterday with a withering attack on the government for its decision to restrict the use of a key drug. Medical experts and Aids activists voiced outrage at indications from the authorities that they may limit the use of nevirapine, an...
US Aids Fund Opens Door to 'pirated' Drugs
Some of the $15bn (£9.4bn) announced by President George Bush to save the lives of people with Aids in poor countries could be spent on cheap copycat generic medicines that the giant US-based drug companies brand as "pirates", his advisers revealed yesterday.
South Africa 'stalling' on Aids
Leaked report says 1.7m could be saved by 2010. South Africa's government could save up to 1.7 million people infected with HIV by 2010 if it provided Aids drugs immediately, according to an official study leaked yesterday.
Bush Vows to Join Africa's War on Aids
George Bush pledged yesterday to help Africa defeat HIV/Aids, which is laying waste parts of the continent where it has infected 30 million people and killed or orphaned around 30 million more. But on a flying visit to Botswana, one of the richest yet worst-affected countries in Africa,...
South Africans Rape Children As Cure for Aids
Almost a third of Nelspruit's 600,000 people are HIV positive. Now the city has another problem, a dramatic increase in child rape caused by the myth that sex with a virgin cures Aids, reports David Beresford.
Sense of Despair Haunts the African Renaissance
This was supposed to be the dawn of a fresh era from the Sahara to Cape Town. Instead, cycles of unstoppable violence have condemned millions to death, with famine, Aids and economic catastrophe in their wake. Peter Beaumont, Foreign Affairs Editor, reports on the end of hope.
Woman Wins Hiv Test Ruling
Two doctors have been told to pay a Sydney woman more than A$700,000 (£290,000) in damages for failing to inform her that her husband was HIV-positive. The woman, named as PD, and her husband FH had HIV tests before getting married in 1999, but FH showed his wife, now 28, a forged...
HIV Rapist Jailed in Finland
A Finnish man who had unprotected sex with 23 victims over seven years in the full knowledge that he had HIV has been jailed for 10 years. George Kwasi Okoke Mensah, 50, who was known as the HIV rapist, was found guilty of 15 aggravated attempted assaults, six rapes, the sexual abuse of a...
Chirac trebles Aids fund but Africa slips down agenda
President Jacques Chirac announced last night that France would treble its spending on fighting HIV/Aids to €150m (£110m) as he sought to fend off claims that the annual G8 summit was again turning its back on the poor.
Aids orphans'survival offers Africa hope
Residents from one of South Africa's poorest townships have destroyed the myth that Africans cannot be trusted with Aids drugs in the most dramatic way - by staying alive.
The Shaming Tragedy of Africa
While many of Africa's problems are of its own making, the West's negligence continues to exacerbate them. It is the continent with 12 per cent of the world's population but with 80 per cent of the world's Aids deaths.
Bayer 'put Asians in Danger of Hiv'
A division of pharmaceutical company Bayer knowingly sold blood-clotting agents infected with the human immunodeficiency virus to Asia and Latin America after withdrawing them from Europe and the US, a US newspaper claimed yesterday.
Africa's Aids Drugs Trapped in the Laboratory
Kenya has the pills. Now the fight is on to get them to the people.
Discovery of Immune Group in Uganda Raises Aids Vaccine Hopes
Scientists believe an effective Aids vaccine may be a step closer after studying an unexpected reponse to the HIV virus in individuals in Uganda who appear immune to infection. Just over two dozen people near Lake Victoria have been found to remain uninfected even though they have...
AsiaSars threat to Chinese HIV region
Thousands of migrant workers are fleeing Sars-hit cities to their homes in a Chinese province already badly affected by HIV-Aids, as fears grow that the virus could spread even more quickly in the vast rural areas.
Aids is God's Challenge - Sa Minister
Aids might be an opportunity provided by God for South Africa to care for its people, its health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, told religious leaders yesterday in Johannesburg. She was launching an interfaith initiative to combat the epidemic through counselling and information...
Women Bear Brunt of Aids Toll
In male-dominated South Africa, the shocking incidence of rape means the HIV epidemic is hitting women hardest.
Aids Protesters Accuse Pretoria Ministers of Manslaughter
Hundreds of Aids activists gathered illegally and marched into South African police stations yesterday to begin a campaign of civil disobedience against the government for its refusal to provide life-extending drugs to those with HIV. Chanting, singing and waving banners, they laid...
Aids Activists Resort to Civil Disobedience
Activists in South Africa are planning to launch a civil disobedience campaign this week to pressure President Thabo Mbeki into introducing anti-retroviral drugs to combat the HIV-Aids.
South Africa Appoints Consultant Who Rules Out Aids/hiv Link
The South African government was embroiled in a fresh row over its Aids policy yesterday when the health ministry confirmed hiring a controversial scientist who disputes the link between HIV and Aids.
Responsibility After the Event
Last week I wrote about Saving Grace, the Guardian's 12-page broadsheet supplement on Aids, which posed the question: why can't Grace Matnanga, one of the million people with HIV in Malawi alone, get the drugs she will need to stay alive?
Sarah Boseley: What You Can Do to Save Grace
After last week's Aids supplement, readers asked what they could do. Unquestionably, the preventable deaths from Aids of millions of young people who include the teachers, health workers and parents of sub-Saharan Africa is a tragedy.
Aids Vaccine Fails Clinical Tests
The world's first attempted Aids vaccine proved a failure yesterday when, after four years' work, the Californian biotech company VaxGen announced that trial results showed that it did not protect those at risk of HIV infection. VaxGen did its best to put an optimistic spin on the...
Race Affects Test Aids Vaccine
An experimental Aids vaccine being developed by VaxGen does not appear to protect most people from the disease but does show promise in protecting black people and Asians, the company said last night. Long-awaited results from the first-ever trial of a vaccine against HIV infection showed...
Aids Vaccine 'works Better on Blacks and Asians'
An experimental Aids vaccine being developed by VaxGen does not appear to protect most people from the disease but does show promise in protecting blacks and Asians, the company said last night. Long-awaited results from the first-ever trial of a vaccine against HIV infection showed it...
Top Sa Playwright Says He Has Hiv
One of South Africa's top playwrights was hailed as a hero yesterday after disclosing he is HIV-positive, in defiance of the national taboo surrounding Aids. Gibson Kente astounded colleagues and the public by joining the tiny band of famous people who have admitted having the virus...
Medical Practices Blamed for Spread of Hiv in Africa
HIV infection in Africa has spread more through medical practices, such as injections, than it has through unsafe sex, according to research published today by the Royal Society of Medicine. Since the 80s, it has been widely assumed that 90% of HIV cases in Africa were sexually...
Malawi minister breaches deadly wall of silence surrounding Aids
The true state of the HIV/Aids crisis in sub-Saharan Africa was laid bare yesterday by a Malawian government minister, who took the unusual step of disclosing that three of his children have died of Aids.
UN Aids Fund Runs Out of Money
The global fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria by channelling money to poor countries beset by the killer diseases has ran out of cash. The fund was set up by the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, with a target of raising $10bn (£6.6bn) a year, the figure laid down by the...
Briton faces storm over HIV 'thrill seeker' claim
The notion seems implausible: that homosexual men would actively seek to be infected with the HIV virus as part of a new craze called 'bug chasing' that supposedly helps its practitioners to get a sexual high from danger.
'Gay Plague' Conservative Quits Us Aids Panel
A Christian conservative chosen to serve on the US presidential council on HIV/Aids has withdrawn his name after he called Aids the "gay plague", sparking protests from congressional Democrats which forced the Bush administration to distance itself from him. In a letter explaining his...
Sponsor pulls plug on Aids concert at Mandela jail island
Not since Live Aid would there have been a concert like it. Dozens of rock stars performing on Robben Island before Nelson Mandela and a global television audience to raise funds to fight HIV/Aids.
Aids: China's State Secret
HIV action groups face numerous bureaucratic obstacles in China, but their positive approach may one day produce better results, writes John Gittings.
Swaziland Has World's Highest Aids Rate
The landlocked African kingdom of Swaziland is believed to have the world's highest rate of HIV, with almost four out of 10 adults infected with the virus which causes Aids. In a new year's address published yesterday, the prime minister, Sibusiso Dlamini, said the official rate of...
'Look what Bush is doing. He could invade'
South Africa cannot afford drugs to fight HIV/Aids partly because it needs submarines to deter attacks from nations such as the US, its health minister said.
Scot in Indonesian jail accuses captors of assault
A hunger strike is taking its toll on the health of an HIV-positive woman who has been held with her Scottish companion in an Indonesian jail for more than three months over visa irregularities.
HIV Wedding Rings in Change for China
A Chinese woman with HIV has married her partner in a widely reported ceremony in Beijing which illustrates changing attitudes in China towards the country's growing Aids crisis. The wedding was timed to coincide with tomorrow's World Aids day.
HIV infection - the new killing grounds
Potential scale of epidemic very alarming. Even with less than 1% infected, India recorded 3.97 million living with HIV in 2001 - the second highest in the world after South Africa. India has 1.2 million children orphaned through Aids, more than any other country.
Aids is Surging in Asia, Warns Un
There will be an "explosive" spread of Aids into new areas unless more resources are freed to fight the growing epidemic, the UN and World Heath Organisation (WHO) warned today. Launching their annual Aids epidemic update in London today, the UN and WHO said that the virus, which has...
Patients Recalled After Aids Death
A private health clinic near Paris has written to more than 900 of its past patients offering them Aids tests, after it emerged that an elderly man had died of the disease following treatment by a member of its staff who is infected with the HIV virus. The Jacques Cartier clinic in Massy,...
US Drug Makers Accused of Bullying
The US government and the giant pharmaceutical companies are continuing to bully poor countries to tighten up their patent rules, hampering efforts to obtain cheap medicines for people with diseases such as HIV/Aids, according to a new report. One year after the historic Doha declaration...
Jailed US nurse asks Indonesia for swift trial
A former nurse from the United States who is awaiting trial with a Scottish academic in the separatist province of Aceh, Indonesia, for alleged visa violation yesterday pleaded with her captors to accelerate the judicial process because she is HIV positive.
EU Proposal Tackles Drug Profiteering
The European commission has announced plans to stop low-cost drugs intended for African countries being illegally resold for big profits in the west. Under the proposal approved by the commission yesterday developing countries should be guaranteed access to cut-price HIV/Aids, TB and...
Africa's Ugly Sisters Leave Trail of Death
A summit next week will explore new ways to fight the twin evils of Aids and famine.
Mbeki visit buoys Aids activists
South Africa's government took another step away from its controversial policy on Aids at the weekend when President Thabo Mbeki publicly associated himself with the provision of the anti-retroviral drugs that keep people with HIV/Aids alive.
South Africans to Get Aids Drugs From the State
The South African government announced yesterday that it will investigate ways of providing the anti-retroviral drugs that keep people with HIV/Aids alive through its public health system: a dramatic reversal of policy. An estimated 4.7 million people are HIV positive in South Africa but...
Aids Rife in Ex-soviet States
HIV/Aids is spreading faster in the countries of the former Soviet Union than anywhere else on earth, and precious time in combatting the infection has been lost because the scale of the crisis has been underestimated, a United Nations report says today.
Epidemic of Ignorance
Indonesia faces an Aids catastrophe as a campaign to educate sex workers and their clients is blocked in the name of Islam, writes John Aglionby.
China admits 'blood stations' caused steep rise in Aids
Thousands of Chinese peasants who sold their blood to government-sponsored "blood stations" have contracted HIV-Aids, health officials have finally admitted in a secret report from the worst-affected province.
African Aids Activists Target Coke
Aids activists in Africa have targeted Coca-Cola for the launch of a campaign to demand that multinational firms supply their HIV-positive workers and families with anti-retroviral drugs. The newly formed Pan-African HIV/Aids Treatment Access Movement, headed by leading South African...
Anglo calls for help on Aids
Mining company asks South African government to join the ght. Mining company Anglo American yesterday called on the South African government to help treat the Aids pandemic that is threatening the economic future of the country.
Colin Richardson: The worst of times
Violence against gay people is still rife, but the law and police attitudes are being transformed. If the past is another country then, for people like me, 1990 is Outer Mongolia. The violent homophobia inspired by the advent of Aids in the early 80s, inflamed by the tabloids and indulged by Thatcherism, had fostered in gay Britain a siege mentality. And if we may have seemed paranoid, we had good reason: they really were out to get us.
BHP Says Aids Drugs Handout is Not the Answer
BHP Billiton, the world's largest diversified mining group, yesterday sharply criticised rival Anglo American's move to provide anti-Aids drugs to its South African workers, saying it had no plans to follow suit. Chief executive Brian Gilbertson said health issues in the area were a...
Russia's rise in addicts leads to rampant HIV
Drug abuse has grown dramatically in Russia over the past decade, prompting a massive rise in the spread of HIV, according to government figures. A Russian interior ministry official said yesterday that the number of illegal drug users might now be between 3 and 4 million, 20 times the official 1992 figure.
Emergency in Niger
Niger declared a state of emergency last week and the national taboo on talking about Aids was broken.
Liz Mcgregor: Life Chances
As the incidence of Aids increases in sub-Saharan Africa, the Home Office approach to HIV-positive asylum seekers is becoming harsher.
Row Over Hiv-positive Muppet
12.15pm: Plans to introduce an HIV-positive character to Sesame Street have provoked an outcry among Republican politicians in the US. By Julia Day.
Negative reaction to HIV-positive Muppet
Plans to introduce an HIV-positive character to Sesame Street have provoked an outcry, with Republican senators demanding an assurance that the controversial scheme would not be repeated in the US.
Muppet with HIV to be Sesame Street star
The cast of the South African edition of the Sesame Street children's television show will soon be joined by an HIV-positive muppet.
13.4m Children Are Aids Orphans, Says Report
The number of children orphaned by HIV/Aids has risen three-fold in six years to reach an all-time high of 13.4 million. Many are growing old before their years, looking after younger siblings, working to earn money and sometimes living on the streets, a major international report revealed...
Gadafy Hijacks Africa's New Union With His Federal Fantasy
The continent's leaders changed their organisation's name, but left war, Aids and drought off the agenda.
Research at Glaxo Gives Hope to Hiv Sufferers
Further hope of a breakthrough in anti-Aids drug research was raised by GlaxoSmithKline yesterday after the firm announced its alternative approach to combating the condition could be on the market in four years.
Ex-Soviet Bloc Faces Aids on African Scale
The Aids epidemic in the former Soviet Union, which is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, threatens the same sort of devastation as in sub-Saharan Africa and could soon menace the rest of Europe, the International Aids conference in Barcelona heard yesterday. Many of those...
'It's very hard: this illness is cruel'
One man who is buying time. James Locke is certain that he would be dead by now, were it not for medical science. For 18 years he has lived with HIV, and has seen it kill many friends.
No Prospect of Total Cure, Conference Told
There is no prospect of a total cure for HIV/Aids in the foreseeable future because the drugs which suppress the virus to keep people in rich countries alive and well will not clear the last vestiges of HIV from the body as scientists had hoped.
Botswana battles against 'extinction'
As delegates meet in Spain, the world's worst-hit country tries a new initiative against the epidemic. If there is anywhere in the world where a model for the treatment of HIV and Aids is needed, it is Botswana.
Aids Drugs Scandal: Toll Soars
Only 30,000 people out of almost 30 million now living with the death sentence of HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa are being given the drugs that keep infected men and women alive, well and working in the UK.
Russian Aids plague to hit Europe
One in 20 Russian adults will be infected with the HIV virus within five years, threatening a massive epidemic in Europe, according to an independent survey by British scientists.
Mbeki Accused of Smearing Aids Expert
South Africa's pre-eminent black Aids scientist has accused Thabo Mbeki's office of waging a campaign of coercion and vilification against medical researchers who challenge the president's unorthodox views on HIV. Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, president of the Medical Research Council...
UN funds fight killer diseases
The Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, set up a year ago by Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, handed out its first grants yesterday from a war chest that is still far short of its target.
S Africa drops Aids drug objections
The South African government has dropped its controversial hardline stance on Aids drugs, unveiling new plans to provide anti-retroviral medication at state hospitals.
Mbeki Fights Ruling That Aids Drug Must Be Used
Thabo Mbeki's battle against Aids orthodoxy goes to the constitutional court tomorrow as the South African government seeks to overturn a judge's order requiring it to immediately provide anti-HIV drugs to pregnant women. The legal challenge comes days after the health and justice...
Mbeki ordered to issue Aids drug
The South African government suffered the latest in a series of embarrassments over its Aids policies yesterday when a court ruled that it had to start providing anti-retroviral drugs immediately for HIV-positive pregnant women in state hospitals.
HIV Rates Will Almost Double By 2005
The number of diagnosed HIV cases rose by 17% in 2001 and public health officials expect rates to rise by 47% in the next three years.
South African government to challenge HIV drug ruling
The South African government is to appeal against last week's high court ruling that state hospitals must dispense the Aids drug nevirapine to HIV-positive women giving birth in state hospitals. But the health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, made a significant concession to the...
Alarm at spread of drug-resistant Aids
More than three-quarters of US patients with the Aids virus may be developing resistance to one or more of their drugs within three years of starting treatment, new research says. The revelation that drug-resistant HIV is spreading even faster than was feared reinforces concern about the...
The HIV crusader who asks people to put love to work
Noerine Kaleeba has been at the HIV/Aids frontline for 15 years, since the virus, as she describes it, entered her front door and - after much physical pain and emotional suffering - killed her husband Chris. Since that day, she has immersed herself in the battle against stigma and the...
Court orders Mbeki to provide Aids drug
A high court judge has ordered the South African government to begin dispensing anti-Aids drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women immediately. Activists say the judgment will save the lives of tens of thousands of babies each year. The ruling is a humiliating defeat for the government on an...
Defiant Nigeria to import cheap copies of HIV drugs
Nigeria has defied pressure from multinational pharmaceutical companies by becoming the first African country to import cheap copies of patented Aids drugs in a move watched closely by other states on the continent worst hit by the disease. The groundbreaking decision will infuriate big...
The impact of Magic Johnson's HIV revelation 10 years later
As the annual World AIDS Day approaches on December 1st, the sports world can reflect on an important date of its own regarding the disease -- Magic Johnson's 10-year anniversary announcing he had HIV. Read on to learn the impact of his revelation a decade later.
HIV Scare Hits Us Porn Industry
Stars rush to clinics for emergency check-ups. America's multibillion-dollar porn industry was in crisis last night after two of its major stars tested positive for HIV.
Rape victims denied HIV medicines
A senior South African health official has barred rape victims from receiving anti-Aids drugs after it was revealed that a nine-month-old child, raped and sodomised by six men, was given medicines to greatly reduce the likelihood of her contracting HIV. The ban on the use of...