Topic: UNAIDS
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-01 03:00:20
<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 living with HIV from entering the United ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-09-30 17:00:59
<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 ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-09-30 16:00:51
<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, said ...
AP News | 2009-08-12 15:56:14
<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 ...
