health - "national hiv"

According to Solomon, such risky behavior among 'call center Romeos,' who typically work at night to correspond with the daytime working hours of their U.S. and European clients, has become a great concern.

GENEVA (Reuters) - HIV/AIDS infection rates are growing among intravenous drug users, prostitutes and gay men around the globe but they are often viewed as outcasts and refused treatment, according to a report issued on Thursday.

Hiv/AIDS advocacy groups and health departments in Florida are planning several events aimed at increasing awareness about hiv among minorities ahead of national hiv Testing Day , which is scheduled for Friday, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - New guidelines are needed to inform people about the risks of organ transplants after four organ recipients in Chicago got hiv and hepatitis C from a single donor last year, U.S. doctors said on Wednesday.

Hiv/AIDS infection rates are growing among intravenous drug users, prostitutes and gay men around the globe but they are often viewed as outcasts and refused treatment, according to a report issued on Thursday.

New guidelines are needed to inform people about the risks of organ transplants after four organ recipients in Chicago got hiv and hepatitis C from a single donor last year, U.S. doctors said on Wednesday.

The Confederation of Business Associations in Mozambique recently launched a program called ECOSIDA to address issues related to HIV/AIDS in the workplace, SAPA/iAfrica.com reports. According to Salimo Abdula, president of the confederation, the country's business sector is experiencing the consequences of HIV/AIDS through the increased absence of employees, which has started to affect production.

While infection rates are higher in Manhattan, the Bronx has the highest death rate from AIDS among the city's boroughs. Experts say the Bronx plan would be the nation's most aggressive testing effort.

Unprotected sex with multiple partners among young staff in India's call centers has emerged as a new HIV/AIDS threat in the country, Suniti Solomon, the researcher who detected the first hiv case in India in 1986, told the International Congress on Infectious Diseases on Saturday, the

Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn writes in an opinion piece that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) 'sent a clear message' to Democrats who 'gravitated' toward Republican candidates because of their opposition to abortion rights by appointing Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) as the head of his national Catholic Advisory Council.