A senior Zambian official said on Friday that it was possible for Africa to achieve zero new HIV infections by 2030 as well as zero AIDS death.
“It’s been trendy for a while to support HIV, but it never really became ‘brave’ in the same way as cancer, or breast cancer, or things like that,” says Yang Yang.
Thailand is hailed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday as the first country in Asia to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
To tell or not to tell. The old dilemma of whether or not doctors should disclose HIV status to spouses has been renewed after a Chinese man filed a lawsuit against a hospital for failing to inform him of his wife's illness.
Six out of every 10,000 people in China may be infected with HIV/AIDS, according to official figures revealed on Monday, the eve of World AIDS Day.
The number of adolescents aged 10- 19 officially estimated to be living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific has trended upwards over the past decade, reaching 220,000 in 2014, said a report released here on Monday.
Most now receive antiretroviral drugs, and free treatment is increasing in $940m program
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Chinese scientists have identified what they say is the most complex HIV ever discovered, in the blood of a long-distance truck driver from Myanmar.
Jiq Qoexi (not her real name) is pregnant with her third child. Her only hope is that she has "a healthy boy". Unbeknown to her at the time, her first child was born with HIV.
China's health authority has pledged to assure Kun Kun, an 8-year-old boy with HIV/AIDS, the right to medical treatment, a living allowance and a school education.
Cambodian local authorities said Tuesday that up to 90 people in a remote village in the Battambang province of northwestern Cambodia have been tested positive for HIV/AIDS.
China will introduce RNA-based HIV testing at blood banks across the country to ensure earlier detection of the virus, safer blood supplies and fewer infections through transfusions, a top HIV/AIDS specialist said.
The rapid evolution of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which has allowed the virus to develop resistance to patients' natural immunity, is at the same time slowing its ability to cause AIDS, according to new research conducted in over 2,000 African women.
As the people across the globe are commemorating World AIDS Day on December 1, the prevalence of the HIV virus is found highest among migrants and their spouses in Nepal.
Thirteen years ago, Li Guo (a pseudonym), then 33 years old, was diagnosed with HIV, a virus he contracted as a result of rampant illegal blood collection in central China's Henan Province.
China will allocate more government funds for HIV/ AIDS prevention, especially for targeted groups,Premier Li Keqiang said during a visit to HIV/AIDS sufferers in Beijing. He said government investment will continue to increase and will help the most vulnerable groups, particularly homosexuals, to prevent the disease from spreading.
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