health - "national hiv"

A BAHRAINI play that highlights the suffering of breast cancer patients will be staged at the Bahrain national Museum's Cultural Hall this month.

Hiv is being spread because doctors overlook symptoms which could reveal the infection, a charity claims.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday it will soon release long-awaited revised estimates of how many Americans become infected with the AIDS virus every year.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday it will soon release long-awaited revised estimates of how many Americans become infected with the AIDS virus every year.

Though heroin abuse is widely linked to Russia's H.I.V. epidemic and the spread of criminality, the issue of methadone treatment is all but taboo.

Social taboos that indirectly encourage homosexuality in Pakistan are also compounding the problem of controlling a raging hiv epidemic in the country, says a new report.

People infected with parasitic worms may be much more susceptible to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Tuesday that may help explain why hiv has hit sub-Saharan Africa particularly hard.

When individuals infected with hiv become infected with a second strain of the virus, the two viral strains can exchange genetic information, creating a third, recombinant strain of the virus.

Programs that provide access to no-cost antiretroviral drugs have had a significant impact on people living with HIV/AIDS, but they also should take into account the effects of poverty and hunger, according to a report recently released by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, PlusNews reports. According to CAFOD, the 'long-term sustainability' of people living with HIV/AIDS who need treatment is 'threatened by the continuing lack of food and economic independence.'read more

If the popular television series 'Sex and the City' 'chronicled the sexually liberated adventures of four black women' instead of white women, 'one of the lead characters could credibly have tested positive for' hiv, Johnathon Briggs, director of communications at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, writes in a Chicago Tribune opinion piece. According to federal health data, black women are nearly 23 times more likely to be diagnosed with AIDS than white women, Briggs writes.read more