New HIV infections increasing among homosexuals

2010-03-15T22:00:09Z

<div><p>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.</p><p>Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, said "it is unacceptable" that 85 countries still have laws criminalizing same sex relations among adults, including seven that...

E.Europe in spotlight at Vienna AIDS conference

2010-03-10T10:16:19Z

<div><p>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.</p><p>"AIDS 2010 will be the conference for people without a voice," the head of U...

UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015

2010-03-08T02:15:18Z

<div><p>The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned.</p><p>Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.</p><p>Michel D. Kazatchkine, the Global Fund's ...

Anti-gay bill may cost Uganda research institution

2010-02-23T16:20:41Z

<div><p>Uganda may lose the chance of hosting a major AIDS research institution if it passes an anti-homosexual bill that seeks to significantly curtail gay rights, a UN official said Monday.</p><p>United Nations and Ugandan health officials announced that the Geneva-...

AIDS epidemics risk being generalised: UN

2010-02-23T22:46:35Z

<div><p>The AIDS epidemic in Ukraine, one of Europe's most affected countries, risk becoming generalised as heterosexual contacts become the chief transmission route for the HIV virus, UN and Ukrainian officials warned Monday.</p><p>"Heterosexual contact has become the chief transmission path ...

Yao Ming joins HIV campaign in China: UN

2010-02-24T00:01:38Z

<div><p>UNAIDS on Friday launched a campaign to address rampant discrimination against people living with HIV in China, with the help of Chinese NBA megastar Yao Ming.</p><p>The campaign, launched with China's health...

China AIDS sufferers face widespread discrimination: U.N.

2010-02-24T00:06:47Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - People in China living with HIV and AIDS face widespread discrimination and stigma, with even medical workers sometimes refusing to touch them, according to a U.N. survey released on Friday.</p><p>

UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China

2010-02-24T00:55:55Z

<div id="subtitle">UNAIDS report says heterosexual sexual contact main cause for HIV's spread in China</div><div><p>The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) speaks as he shows the agency's new report entitled UNAIDS Outlook 2010 during its launch press conference ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 in Shanghai, China. A UN said in an annual report on the crisis Tuesday that mixed hope with a warning against complacency.</p><p>Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV virus since it was first recorded but prevention programmes are having a significant impact, the UN said in an annual report on the crisis Tuesday that mixed hope with a warning against complacency.</p><p>Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV virus since it was first recorded but prevention programmes are having a significant impact, the UN said on Tuesday as it issued its annual report that mixed hope with a warning against complacency.</p><p>Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV virus since it was first recorded but prevention programmes are having a significant impact, the UNAIDS on Tuesday.</p><p>While prevention programmes have helped to cut infection rates by 17 percent over the past eight years, the total number of people living with HIV continued to rise in 2008.</p>&a...

Over 33 million infected with AIDS virus: U.N.

2010-02-24T01:25:45Z

<div><p>SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, up from 33 million in 2007, but more people are living longer due to the availability of drugs, according to a United Nations report.</p><p>However, more than half ...

New HIV infections down 17%: UNAIDS

2010-02-24T01:20:46Z

<div><p>New HIV infections have fallen by 17 percent over the past eight years, UNAIDS said Tuesday, noting that prevention programmes were having an impact.</p><p>"The good news is that we have evidence that the declines we are seeing are due, at least in part, to HIV prevention, said Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS executive director.</p&...

New HIV infections down 17 percent: UNAIDS

2010-02-24T01:22:52Z

UN urges nations to lift HIV travel ban

2010-02-24T11:38:18Z

<div><p>UN chief Ban Ki-moon hailed US President Barack Obama's removal of a decades-old travel ban on HIV-positive visitors, and urged other countries to do the same.</p><p>"I congratulate President Obama on announcing the removal of the travel restrictions for people livi...

HIV spreading faster than treatment in Africa: UNAIDS

2010-02-25T00:32:20Z

<div><p>New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are growing twice as quickly as anti-retroviral drugs are rolled out, despite a 39 percent hike in treatment access, UNAIDS said Wednesday.</p><p>The number of people receiving AIDS treatments in the region, where two-thirds of the world's HIV positive people live -- rose from 2.1 m...

Tenfold rise in HIV treatment for poor: UN

2010-02-25T00:35:46Z

<div><p>More than four million people from poor and middle-income countries received HIV/AIDS treatment in 2008, marking a tenfold increase in access to medication over five years, a UN report said Wednesday.</p><p>The biggest progress was recorded in sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of all HIV infections occur...

UN says 50 million women in Asia risk HIV

2010-02-25T21:34:36Z

<div id="subtitle">UN says estimated 50 million women in Asia are at risk of HIV infection from their partners</div><div><p>An estimated 50 million women in Asia are at risk of becoming infected with the HIV virus from their husbands or long-term partners, according to a U.N. report published Tuesday.</p><p>The rep...

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