United Press International - Wednesday, 27 December 2000
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Abbott Laboratories halted production of its HIV test kits following a letter from the Food and Drug Administration citing inadequate quality control guidelines. The tests were manufactured at Abbott s Murex Diagnostics plant in Norcross, Ga. The F
United Press International - Tuesday, 26 December 2000
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert for an experimental HIV/AIDS drug allegedly stolen from a Raleigh, N.C., researcher s storage facility. The drug, a goat antiserum, is the subject of a clinical hold prohibiting its use until safety questions are resolved. The
United Press International - Sunday, 24 December 2000
Gargi Talukder, UPI Science News
Hard as it may be to see good in the AIDS virus, some researchers assert HIV and other pernicious viruses may provide a much-needed boost to gene therapy research. The aim of gene therapy is to correct genetic disorders by inserting new, functional versions of genes that compensate for the inherited defects. Because it
United Press International - Monday, 11 December, 2000
Eli J. Lake
GABORONE, Botswana , Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright helped unveil 200 counseling caravans for Botswana Monday, part of an initiative to increase the rate of HIV testing in the AIDS-stricken land. Last year, my government, through the Centers for Disease Control, contributed almost $5 million to
PRETORIA, South Africa , Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright highlighted U.S. support for AIDS treatment and awareness Friday in a visit to one of South Africa s largest maternity hospitals dealing with the disease. Over the next five years, the United States has pledged $40 million
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia , Dec. 7 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced a complete social mobilization against AIDS in AIDS-devastated Africa Thursday -- an international partnership of governments, donors, non-governmental organizations and the United Nations. Speaking at the U.N. Economic Commission for A
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (UPI) - Thousands of peasants in Shangcai County in southeast China are dying of AIDS-related illnesses which they caught because of government negligence, The London Telegraph reported Thursday. The newspaper said officials have tried to cover up Shangcai s soaring AIDS rate with lies and secrecy, trig
United Press International - Saturday, 2 December 2000
Joyce Frieden, UPI Science News
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Leaders in the world health community today called on men to change their attitudes and behaviors in response to the continuing spread of AIDS, even as more women are contracting the disease. Young women aged 15 to 24 are now often more than twice as likely to be living with HIV as young men
United Press International - Friday, 1 December 2000
C. M. Wade, UPI Science News
SHANGHAI, China , Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The first time Qiao Yiming, a 32-year-old investment banker, heard about the threat of AIDS, it was in an editorial that appeared in a communist party newspaper, claiming that the disease was the scourge of decadent lifestyles, found only in Western countries. That was more than a
United Press International - Friday, December 1, 2000
Aamir Shah
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan has at least 80,000 aids patients, more than 50 times the 1,700 officially confirmed cases, says a report published in the Pakistani newspapers Saturday. Researchers said 80,000 patients in a population of 140 million was not out of hand, but urged the government to encour
United Press International - Friday, 1 December 2000
Calum Macleod
BEIJING, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- As countries from Laos to Latvia marked World AIDS Day Friday, there is growing concern that the epidemic in Asia is set to reach African proportions. Barring miracles, experts suggest the number of HIV carriers in Chin
United Press International - Friday, 1 December 2000
Leke Meeus
BRUSSELS, Belgium , Dec. 1 (UPI) -- If there are three words to describe World AIDS Day in Belgium Friday they would be lack of interest -- a global trend that can be observed in many industrial countries according to the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) and
United Press International - Friday, 1 December 2000
SANTIAGO, Chile , Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Free condoms could disappear like hotcakes on the streets outside Santiago s nightclubs thanks to a recently approved program of the National Youth Institute (Injuv) designed to help young people protect themselves from AIDS. The program is one of two major HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
ATLANTA, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Almost one in five Americans believes that people who contracted AIDS because of sex or drug use have gotten what they deserve, the federal government said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said a nationally representative opinion survey found that 18.3 percen
HONG KONG, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A study about AIDS awareness turned up surprising results for researchers in Hong Kong : Many in this affluent and sophisticated city still believe that HIV can be contracted through casual contact.
TEHRAN, Iran , Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Iran said Sunday that about 2,207 people have tested HIV positive in the Islamic republic in the past 14 years, most of them having contacted the virus from injecting drugs. The official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted the secretary of the National Committee to Combat AIDS, Bahram Ye
GENEVA, Switzerland , Nov. 24 (UPI) -- An estimated 5.3 million people worldwide, including 600,000 children, were expected to become newly infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, by the end of 2000. The increase would bring the total living with the virus to 36.1 million, according to projections published Fri
BOSTON, Nov 8 (UPI) -- A herpes virus that often silently infects humans is being blamed for complications of kidney transplants in two patients and failure of bone marrow transplant in another patient. The finding suggests that patients, whose immune systems are suppressed either to prevent rejection of donor organs o
SEATTLE, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Human herpes virus-8, a viral strain discovered by AIDS researchers, is probably spread by oral-to-oral contact, thus infectious disease experts say safe sex practices will not reduce transmission. Researchers say the virus, called HHV-8, appears to promote Kaposi s sarcoma, the skin cancer tha
BEIJING, Nov. 27 (UPI) - Officials from China s Quarantine Bureau found 46 HIV carriers at border checkpoints in the first 10 months of the year, deporting foreign nationals and placing Chinese nationals with the disease in custody, state run media reported. The report in the English language China Daily sited statisti
PARIS, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A Paris appeals court opens a hearing Monday on whether to send 30 defendants to civil or to criminal court, in the latest chapter of a complex and years-long scandal surrounding AIDS-tainted blood. The two-day hearing focuses on a lawsuit filed by 55 parties, including hemophiliacs and victims
United Press International - Tuesday, 31 October 2000
Janet Filips
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The authors of the largest randomized trial of HIV-positive patients of the 1990s are clear about the findings of their study: a compound intended to sharpen the immune system s battle axe against HIV proteins performed no better than a dummy therapy in altering the course of the disease
United Press International - Friday, 27 October 2000
Peggy Peck in Cleveland, Ohio
LONDON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Persons with HIV-1 infection have an increased risk for either relapse or re-infection with tuberculosis after successful treatment for TB, but the risk can be reduced by continuing preventive TB treatment for a year. That s the finding from a new study, published in the current issue of the Br
KAMPALA, Uganda , Oct 24 (UPI) -- The South African government Tuesday finally bowed to pressure and launched a new campaign to halt the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The new educational guidelines were carried in newspaper, radio and television advertisements, as part of the government s national health p
United Press International - Thursday October 19, 2000
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- HIV and AIDS cases are exploding at an alarming rate among Blacks and Hispanics in the United States at the same time the disease is on the decline nationwide, Surgeon General David Satcher reported Thursday. Even though Africans-Americans and Latinos represent only 23 percent of the popul
United Press International - Friday, 6 October 2000
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (UPI) -- South Africa s President Thabo Mbeki has accused the Central Intelligence Agency of being part of a conspiracy to promote the view that HIV causes AIDS, The Mail & Guardian reported Friday. Mbeki also thinks that the CIA is working covertly alongside the big U.S. pharmaceutical manufact
United Press International - Thursday, 5 October 2000
BOSTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Infectious disease experts report that a shorter antiviral treatment can lower the rate at which HIV-positive mothers infect their fetuses to about 5 percent and at only one-fifth the cost. If mothers are treated with AZT the last weeks of pregnancy, their newborns need treatment for only three
United Press International - Tuesday, 3 October 2000
Ed Susman
ATLANTA, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Frustrated by a lack of progress in reducing the rate of new AIDS virus infections, particularly among minority youth, the U.S. surgeon general called Tuesday for programs to attack AIDS in crisis cities where the number of AIDS cases among minority populations was particularly high. Dr. David
United Press International - Monday, 2 October 2000
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Despite advances in treatment and extensive messages about risky behavior, officials reported little progress Monday in preventing HIV/AIDS infections among US youth. According to a new White House report, about 20,000 people age 13 to 24 are still being infected each year. It is deeply distres
ATLANTA, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Many people have misconceptions about how sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, chlamydia and gonorrhea are spread, federal health researchers said Thursday. Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a survey of 3,500 patients at sexually transmitted disease clini
United Press International - Thursday, 21 September 2000
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Scientists studying monkeys and the simian version of AIDS report they have opened a new door to what they hope will prove to be an effective target for an HIV vaccine. In their research using rhesus macaque monkeys, the investigators for the first time observed how the virus avoids the
United Press International - Monday, 18 September 2000
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
TORONTO, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Patients suffering from symptoms of early infection with the virus that causes AIDS sometimes are misdiagnosed as suffering a variety of spotted fevers, doctors reported Monday. The earliest signs of infection with human immunodeficiency virus sometimes looks like Mediterranean or Rocky Mount
United Press International - Friday, 15 September 2000
David Shapshak
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15 (UPI) -- After a series of blunders by President Thabo Mbeki over his controversial stance on HIV and AIDS, the South African government has taken the unprecedented step of publishing ads in the country s newspapers to quell the growing scandal. The half-page ads published Friday follow further em
United Press International -Friday, 15 September 2000
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- In what amounts to a theological U-turn, the Vatican s official newspaper has said that condom use may be permissible for containing the spread of the AIDS virus, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Friday. The Vatican article does not endorse condoms but tolerates their use as part of a
United Press International - Friday, 15 September 2000
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Federal and state governments are not making full, effective use of existing information technology for their Web sites, according to a Brown University study released Friday. In what was described as the first nationwide content analysis of state and federal government Web sites, Br
United Press International - Friday, 15 September 2000
David Shapshak
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15 (UPI) -- After a series of blunders by President Thabo Mbeki over his controversial stance on HIV and AIDS, the South African government has taken the unprecedented step of publishing ads in the country s newspapers to quell the growing scandal. The half-page ads published Friday follow further em
United Press International - Tuesday, 5 September 2000
Timothy Kalyegira
KAMPALA, Uganda , Sept. 5 (UPI) --- With the AIDS epidemic rapidly spreading in South Africa , a newspaper Tuesday reported that about 35,000 nurses, or about 20 percent, of the country s registered nurses are infected with HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS. The Johannesburg Star quoted the statistics from data pr
GABARONE, Botswana , Aug. 11 (UPI) - Botswana, which has the worst AIDS statistics in the world, said Friday it is introducing legislation that will make it mandatory for HIV carriers to disclose their status to sexual partners, media reports said. The country s health minister, Joy Phumaphi, told U.N. officials that t
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Patients who deny to themselves that they are infected with HIV get sicker quicker than those who use other coping strategies, a team of North Carolina researchers reports. The researchers studied 82 HIV-infected gay men for 7½ years and found that those who made statements such as I
United Press International - Wednesday, 26 July 2000
Motoko Naito
TOKYO, July 26 (UPI) -- A leading expert on hemophilia has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court that said he had failed to detect HIV contamination of a hemophiliac in 1985 despite knowing that continual injection of unheated blood products can cause death. The expert, 84-year-old Takeshi Abe, who is also
United Press International - Tuesday, 25 July 2000
Mike Santangelo, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, July 25 (UPI) -- Your chances of getting a date and a sexually transmitted disease are better on the Internet than in a singles bar, a study published today reveals. A survey of 856 clients of the Denver Public Health HIV Counsel and Testing Site found those surfing the net to find mister or miss right were mo
DURBAN, South Africa , July 14 (UPI) -- As the 13th International AIDS Conference closed here Friday, a leading researcher lashed out at scientists who didn t show up. I m very angry with many of my colleagues, said Stefano Vella of Rome, the new president of the International AIDS Society (IAS), which runs the biennia
DURBAN, South Africa , July 14 (UPI) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela called Friday for end of debate on what causes AIDS, and pleaded with scientists, governments and communities to concentrate their efforts on beating the worldwide scourge. Let us not equivocate, Mandela said at the closing address a
United Press International - Thursday, 13 July 2000
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 13 (UPI) -- More than a year after receiving a short-course of inexpensive anti-AIDS drugs during delivery, babies born to HIV-infected mothers are still protected against infection. The results of the study conducted in Uganda , as well as other studies that were reported Thursday at the
United Press International - Thursday, 13 July 2000
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 13 (UPI) -- By 2010, about 40 million children in sub-Saharan Africa will have lost either their mother or father or both parents -- and most of those deaths will be caused by AIDS. Officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development said the vast numbers of children who will have lim
United Press International - Thursday, 13 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 13 (UPI) -- A new drug that blocks HIV from entering blood cells may help people who are resistant to other drugs, a researcher said Thursday at the 13th International AIDS Conference. Cal Cohen of Harvard Medical School said a new study shows T-20, a so-called fusion inhibitor, has few side
United Press International - Thursday, 13 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 13 (UPI) -- It s a woman s world when it comes to AIDS in Africa, while the role of men in spreading the epidemic is almost totally ignored, the head of South Africa s Medical Research Council said Thursday. William Makgoba told the 13th International AIDS conference that research on how to
United Press International - Wednesday, 12 July 2000
DURBAN, South Africa , July 12 (UPI) -- If three drugs work well to combat the virus which causes AIDS, should four potent drugs work even better? Apparently not, researchers said Wednesday at the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. I think we need more potent regimens to deal with human immunod
United Press International - Wednesday, 12 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 12 (UPI) -- The cost of anti-HIV drugs should be cut 75-fold by allowing generic versions to be made in the developing world, Doctors Without Frontiers said Wednesday at the 13th International AIDS Conference. The organization also called for immediate programs to halt mother-to-child transm
United Press International - Wednesday, 12 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , (July 12) -- White lies and sweet talk helped women in Zimbabwe persuade their partners to use condoms, a Centers for Disease Control researcher said Wednesday at the 13th International AIDS Conference. Behaviorial scientist Ann O Leary said regular condom use went from 2 percent to 70 percent in
United Press International - Wednesday, 12 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 12 (UPI) -- The drug cocktails used in the United States and other developed countries to treat HIV should be the so-called gold standard of care in poor nations as well, according to new guidelines released Wednesday by the International AIDS Society (IAS). But if the best therapy costs
United Press International - Wednesday, 12 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 12 (UPI) -- New same-day HIV tests will mean a dramatic increase in the number of Africans getting tested for the virus, which causes AIDS, the 13th International AIDS Conference was told Wednesday. With these new technologies, the numbers are really going to skyrocket, Elizabeth Marum, an
United Press International - Wednesday, 12 July 2000
DURBAN, South Africa (UPI) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working with funds donated by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, will provide nearly $100 million to fight AIDS around the world. Annemarie Hou, a spokeswoman for the Gates Foundation said Wednesday the grants include $50 million for AIDS-ravaged
DURBAN, South Africa , July 11 (UPI) -- Scientists said Tuesday that two new studies confirm that anti-AIDS drugs given to infected pregnant mothers just before delivery protects the newborns from contracting the disease. The short-course treatment, particularly used in developing countries where extended medication is
United Press International - Tuesday, 11 July 2000
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 11 (UPI) -- Researchers said Tuesday their new studies indicate women infected with the virus that causes AIDS might not be get timely treatment because therapy guidelines were developed for men. There is indeed a sex difference in viral load (the level of human immunodeficiency virus circul
United Press International - Tuesday, 11 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 11 (UPI) -- The first human trial of a vaccine designed for the African strain of the AIDS virus will begin this fall, and will include a British member of parliament among the volunteers, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) said Tuesday. This is the first vaccine designed for
United Press International - Tuesday, 11 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 11 (UPI) -- There s no hope for a cure for AIDS with current drugs, the head of the U.S. AIDS research effort said Tuesday at the 13th International AIDS Conference. Eradication is not possible, said Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
United Press International - Tuesday, 11 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 11 (UPI) -- The European Commission is planning a summit to streamline the battle against AIDS and HIV, the virus that causes it, officials said Tuesday at the 13th International AIDS Conference. The meeting will be in Brussels Sept. 28 and will also target tuberculosis and malaria, said Lie
DURBAN, South Africa , July 10 (UPI) -- The virus that causes AIDS jumped from chimpanzees into humans in about the year 1700, researchers said Monday at the 13th International AIDS Conference. Then, in about 1930, HIV began an explosive expansion, said Anne-Mieke Vandamme of the Rega Institute for Medical Research in
DURBAN, South Africa , July 10 (UPI) -- Male circumcision should be tried as a way to prevent the spread of AIDS in areas of Africa where the operation is not regularly performed, researchers suggested Monday at the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. If you had a one-time intervention that coul
DURBAN, South Africa , July 10 (UPI) -- By 2003, Zimbabwe , South Africa and Botswana will have shrinking population because of AIDS, the U.S. Agency for International Development predicted Monday. The development would mark the first time since the Black Plague that a disease has caused populations
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) - The World Bank has proposed a $500 million loan plan to help pay for AIDS programs in Africa, and will make the money available to any nation that comes up with a credible plan to tackle the epidemic that the bank has compared to the plagues that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. Speaking
DURBAN, South Africa , July 9 (UPI) -- A combination of voluntary HIV tests and counseling can dramatically reduce the risk of AIDS in the developing world, researchers said Sunday at the 13th International AIDS Conference. Such programs are cheap and work well, especially in places where AIDS is highly prevalent, said
DURBAN, South Africa , July 9 (UPI) -- Africa needs $3 billion a year to battle AIDS, about 10 times what is now being spent, the head of the United Nations AIDS program said (Sunday). We need -- at a minimum -- $3 billion a year to have an impact, said Peter Piot, executive-director of the United Nations Joint Program
DURBAN, South Africa , July 9 (UPI) -- The president of South Africa called Sunday for a study of outstanding questions on AIDS as he delivered the keynote address opening the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki, who has been criticized for seeking unorthodox opinions regar
DURBAN, South Africa , July 9 (UPI) -- About 5,000 protesters marched Sunday through the streets of Durban, South Africa -- host city of the XIII International AIDS Conference -- protesting high costs of anti-AIDS drugs. In an impassioned speech prior to the mile-long march through the generally deserted streets of Sou
DURBAN, South Africa , July 9 (UPI) -- Scientists called Sunday for clinical trials of potent anti-AIDS drugs for use in vaginal gels or creams to help women who engage in sexual intercourse to protect themselves against being infected by the deadly virus. At the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Afri
DURBAN, July 9 (UPI) -- For the first time, AIDS vaccines are real possibility, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Sunday. But Gates, speaking in a video presentation to reporters at the 13th International AIDS Conference, said an eventual AIDS vaccine must be accessible to all, not restricted by cost to people in the d
United Press International - Saturday, 8 July 2000
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
DURBAN, South Africa , July 8, 2000 (UPI) -- US Government officials said Saturday they are concerned about trends that indicate AIDS rates could rise again after years of steady decline or stability -- especially due to risky behavior among young men and women. The report from the Center for Disease Control and Preven
DURBAN, South Africa , July 7 (UPI) -- The pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has annoucned it will give an anti-AIDS medication free to pregnant AIDS-infected women in developing countries to prevent transmission of the virus to the woman s newborn child. The announcement came as an expected 10,000 delega
KAMPALA, Uganda , July 2 (UPI) - South Africa s deputy president Jacob Zuma called Sunday for an African approach to the combat of the AIDS crisis that is rapidly spreading on the continent. Addressing a conference of American and South African experts in Cape Town, Zuma said the crisis could not be effectively address
United Press International - Saturday, 1 July 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- In a dramatic declaration, 5,000 scientists from around the world said there s no longer any doubt that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS. It is unfortunate that a few vocal people continue to deny the evidence, says the so-called Durban Declaration, to be published July 6 i
United Press International - Wednesday, June 28, 2000
John Zarocostas
GENEVA, Switzerland , June 27 (UPI) -- Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS , estimated Tuesday that between $1.6 to $2.6 billion per year in Africa is required to contain the AIDS epidemic, and about $4 billion globally for all developing countries for just for prevention and education campaigns, which include
United Press International - Tuesday, 27 June 2000
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
GENEVA, June 27 (UPI) -- In the worst-hit areas of the world, the AIDS epidemic will kill between a third and half of today s 15-year-olds, causing dramatic damage to societies and economies, officials of the UN s AIDS program said Tuesday. And in some places, the death toll could be higher, said Peter Piot, executive
United Press International - Wednesday, June 07, 2000
Timothy Kalyegira
(UPI) -- A report released Wednesday by the International Labor Organization says AIDS is expected to have a major impact on the size and quality of the world labor force. The ILO said sub-Saharan Africa in particular would be the most affected. Up to 23 million people are reported to be infected with the HIV virus tha
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- President Clinton and South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday agreed to work together to fight AIDS in southern Africa, brushing aside questions about Mbeki s controversial stance on leading AIDS drugs. Mbeki himself denied that he had ever disputed the efficacy of the AIDS drug
GENEVA, Switzerland , May 11 (UPI) -- Five leading global pharmaceutical companies and United Nations agencies announced Thursday they are engaged in negotiations that could result in the cost of drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS and related care reduced by up to 90 per cent in poor nations in sub-Saharan Africa and
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- Fearing that the global spread of AIDS could destabilize the world, Clinton administration has declared the deadly disease as a threat to the U.S. national security, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The newspaper says that the United States feels that the global spread of AIDS is reach
United Press International - Monday, February 21, 2000
Rodolfo A. Windhausen
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Two U.N. agencies have launched a new initiative to promote development of a new AIDS/HIV vaccine in an effort to combat the alarming rate at which the epidemic is spreading, the United Nations reported Monday. The program initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Uni
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