Twenty-five years ago this month, researchers uncovered the virus that causes AIDS. Since then, more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV and last year, 2.1 million people died of AIDS. Although progress has been made in delivering lifesaving treatments and identifying effective prevention strategies, finding new methods of HIV prevention, including a vaccine, remain extremely important.
Recent testing of students and staff at Galena Park High School found about 30 people who tested positive for TB but no one who was symptomatic or contagious, according to health officials.
The Ottawa Council on Wednesday asked the provincial government for a matching $100,000 (US $100,391) contribution to help the city collect discarded needles.
A new study observed significant differences in specific adverse events according to sex and race among HIV patients starting antiretroviral therapy (ART).
May is Hepatitis Awareness Month. Hepatitis B affects 2 million Americans, and as many as one in 10 Asian/Pacific Islanders in America, especially those from
"Angels at My Door" is a new children's book that compiles the stories of eight young people affected by HIV/AIDS. The idea for the book grew from a three-day creativity camp at Samaritan House, a community-based group that provides low- cost housing, meals, and counseling to HIV/AIDS patients and their families.
Asia's 140 percent increase in TB cases during the past five years can largely be blamed on the HIV epidemic, researchers were told Wednesday at the annual congress of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Adelaide,
Canadian health officials and Tibotec, a division of drug maker Janssen-Ortho, are advising patients taking Prezista (darunavir) that serious liver side effects have been linked to the drug.
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