A program designed to help parents and educators talk to teens about abstinence will be presented Thursday night at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington.
A humanitarian advocate took advantage of Wednesday's designation as World AIDS Orphans Day to ask donor nations to set aside at least 10 percent of their AIDS funding to address the needs of orphans and vulnerable children.
"A few months ago, hepatitis B and C and HIV became a real threat for nearly 40,000 people who received medical care at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.
The researchers studied the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) immunization and infection among men ages 23 to 29 who have sex with men by analyzing data on 2,834 such men in six US metropolitan areas.
In Ottawa Monday, a researcher commissioned by the federal government to study the public impact of Vancouver's supervised injection site said there is a good case for expanding the approach to other cities plagued by drugs.
A potential HIV/AIDS vaccine that has shown "significant promise" among non-human primates is expected to undergo Phase II safety testing this summer, according to GeoVax Inc., an Atlanta biotechnology firm associated with Emory University.
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