Citing data from its latest survey, the South African Institute of Race Relations reports that 32 percent of all children in the nation will have lost one or both parents to AIDS by 2015.
On World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, the AIDS Activities Office at Lehigh Valley Health Network and the Allentown Health Bureau will present a conference entitled, "HIV: The Aging of a Growing Population." The keynote address will be delivered by Jane Fowler, who was diagnosed with HIV at age 55.
Using federal stimulus funds, the National Institutes of Health has awarded $1 million grants to two HIV studies that will be conducted by University of California-San Francisco researchers.
Women should have their first cervical cancer screening at age 21, and most can be rescreened less frequently than previously recommended, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) said today.
HIV/AIDS advocates in Victoria want authorities to provide clearer policies for determining when criminal charges should be lodged against HIV-positive people who risk infecting others.
A project to map HIV viral loads in San Francisco shows that while more HIV cases are in the largely gay Castro neighborhood, residents with HIV in poorer neighborhoods tend to be sicker or untreated.
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