AIDS Speaker Charged With Feigning Illness

A woman who traveled the lecture circuit with her account of being raped and infected with AIDS as a child has been charged with defrauding the state of Pennsylvania of $66,000 by falsely claiming to have the disease.

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Gateses Take on AIDS Prevention in India

The numbers in India are frightening: In a country of more than 1 billion people, some 5.7 million are infected with HIV/AIDS. That makes India home to more victims of the disease than any other country in the world.

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Judge Speeds Up Nurses' Trial in Libya

A judge Tuesday sped up the retrial of Bulgarian nurses charged with infecting children with the AIDS virus, ruling that the court would convene every week until a verdict was reached.

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Pneumonia Cases Led to AIDS Discovery

The first report of AIDS was published in the June 5, 1981, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Laura Bush Pushes AIDS Education

First lady Laura Bush told a major AIDS conference Friday that more people must understand how the deadly virus is transmitted, and she called on countries to improve literacy so their citizens can make better choices.

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World Leaders Resist AIDS Money Targets

World leaders resisted setting exact financial targets Friday for the fight against AIDS, drawing criticism from activists who said rich nations are too worried about having to pay the bill.

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Officials, Providers at Odds on HIV Test

More than 100,000 New York City residents have HIV, and 20 percent don't know it. Many sicken and die without learning their status.

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Gilead Faces Criticism Over Drug Access

The 25-year fight against AIDS has been good to Gilead Sciences Inc., a Bay Area biotechnology company that makes the world's hottest-selling HIV treatment.

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U.S. Makes Strides in Fight Against AIDS

In those days, a diagnosis was a death sentence. No one knew how you got it, this mysterious ailment that savaged the human body with almost medieval cruelty.

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AIDS Retains Stigma in Eastern Europe

Adrian Calea found out he was HIV positive when he accidentally saw a doctor's note in his mother's purse when he was 10.

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AIDS No Longer Taboo in Latin America

Standing beneath a towering crucifix, the Rev. Andre Pierre thundered at the faithful crowded elbow-to-elbow in the Sacred Heart Church to show mercy for the poor and the elderly.

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Asia Now Second to Africa in HIV Cases

When HIV first escalated in Africa and the Caribbean, Asia remained virtually untouched and unaware. But the world's most populous continent is catching up.

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AIDS Toll May Reach 100 Million in Africa

It began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history. Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair.

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U.N. Asks Nations to Back AIDS Plan

Warning that the battle against AIDS was at risk, the United Nations asked delegations at a major conference Thursday to stop opposing the mention of condoms, safe drug use and funding goals in a document that will help guide efforts to fight the virus over the next 10 years.

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AIDS Activists Protest at U.N. Building

Police used bolt cutters to separate AIDS activists who had chained themselves to each other Wednesday in the lobby of the building that houses the U.S. Mission of the United Nations.

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U.N. Says Promises Broken in AIDS Fight

The world has fallen far short of its promises five years ago to fight HIV/AIDS, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned leaders meeting Wednesday to find new ways to tackle the virus.

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U.N. Says India Now Has Most AIDS Cases

India now has the largest number of AIDS infections as the spread of the disease shows no sign of letting up a quarter-century into an epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives, the U.N. reported Tuesday.

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UNAIDS Head: World Is Losing HIV Fight

The world continues to lose an ugly battle to HIV/AIDS that shows no sign of letting up after 25 million people have died a quarter-century into the epidemic, the head of the U.N.'s HIV/AIDS joint program said.

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Report: More Than 2 Million Kids Have HIV

More than 2 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV, almost all in sub-Saharan Africa where there is no access to treatment and death almost certain, seven leading child advocacy organizations said.

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Filmfest AIDS Benefit Nets More Than $4M

A glitzy benefit dinner on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival brought in more than $4 million for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or amfAR, organizers said Friday.

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Bush to Meet With Rwandan President

President Bush will meet with President Paul Kagame of Rwanda at the White House on May 31 to discuss AIDS and economic issues as well as efforts to stabilize parts of east Africa.

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U.N. Releases Report on AIDS Treatment

Denial, food shortages and squandered resources were among the problems preventing thousands of AIDS patients from getting treatment in countries hardest hit by the disease, according to a report by treatment activists.

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Russia at Risk to Lose AIDS Funding

Although it faces an escalating epidemic, Russia stands to lose tens of millions of dollars in international AIDS funding because the World Bank has reclassified it as an upper middle-income country, officials said Friday.

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Government Condition Barred on AIDS Funds

A federal judge on Thursday barred the Bush administration from requiring nonprofit AIDS groups to sign a pledge opposing prostitution and sex trafficking in exchange for federal dollars.

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Russia Said to Be on Edge of AIDS Crisis

Vitaly is the face of Russia's AIDS epidemic, epitomizing many of its most troubling characteristics.

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Toronto Star : Vacant chair at AIDS summit

It is hard to understand why Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declined an invitation to open next month's global AIDS gathering in Toronto. More than 23,000 people from 130 countries — including several heads of state — are expected.

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BAYER gives Europe AIDS

Scarborough interviewee sheds light on FDA approval of Bayer's decision to sell known AIDS-infected medecine for hemophiliacs overseas. Bayer knew of the problem and were troubled by the refusal of the FDA to allow sales of the tainted substance within the US.

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MYTH: More Foreign Aid Will End Global Poverty

This myth may really rattle your brain. Lots of well-meaning people believe foreign aid will cure poverty. U2's lead singer, Bono, stops almost every concert to tell his fans that Western governments can end poverty.

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Circumcision may stop millions of HIV deaths-study

Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.

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Twelve Years On, HIV-Positive Genocide Survivors Still Suffering

From the page: -- Rwanda marked its 12th Liberation Day since the 1994 genocide on Tuesday with calls of "never again", but thousands of women who were brutally raped in the 100 days of terror have an enduring reminder of their torment - the HI[V] virus. --

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Diamonds Not Always a Girl's Best Friend

In 1999, after rebel forces ransacked the town at the height of the 10-year civil war, Esano started working the streets and clubs to meet "rich men" - the estimated 200,000 miners, whose unceasing digging and panning has turned the impoverished Kono district into a lunar landsca …

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Health experts sound alarm over new types of HIV

A new strain of HIV is a product of merging two strains, subtype E and subtype C, to form a new straing that can cause the disease to spread faster.

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T-cells Developed From Human Embryonic Stem Cells

New research from UCLA have demonstrated that human embryonic stem cells can be genetically manipulated to develop into mature T-cells.

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AIDS: A Challenge for Black Communities

In the old days, civil-rights issues were much simpler. They amounted, in essence, to holding America to its founding promise, which meant attacking Jim Crow. Today, the most pressing issues affecting minority communities have little to do with Jim Crow.

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Teen sex assault victims rarely finish HIV meds

Findings from a new study suggest that just 15 percent of adolescents who have been sexually assaulted and started anti-HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) actually complete the recommended 28-day course of treatment.

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Huge medical error deaths & hospital risk management

"Do no harm" but 100,000 Americans die annually from medical "adverse events"; "system failure" rather than "individual fault"; death probability 10,000 times greater from medical error than from air travel; truth vital.

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How a tobacco farm in Kent could provide a life-saving drug for millions

From the page: -- In the perfectly controlled atmosphere of a brick-proof, hermetically sealed greenhouse deep in the Kent countryside, a fresh crop of tobacco plants is beginning to flourish.

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Calif. court expands liability for HIV infection

From the page: -- A person who has reason to believe he or she has HIV may be sued by sexual partners if they become infected, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday, broadening the state's view of when liability arises from the disease. --

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The 90/10 divide - only 10% of funding destined to diseases that affect 90% of World's population

From the article: "Ninety per cent of the world is at risk from infectious diseases, but only 10% of the world′s research and pharmaceutical resources are spent on them. Drug development for diseases that affect poor people has come to a virtual standstill"

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Bug Chasers, Men Who Want to Be HIV+

Straight from the article:

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Infectious Diseases (part 1)

Disease has played a part in life for as long as life has existed (and maybe even before). Human history is filled with plagues and epidemics that have literally shifted the course of human events.

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'He thought sex with a virgin would cure him'

From the page: -- He said he raped me because he thought having sex with a virgin would cure him of his disease. --

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Foreign aid to Africa by Walter E. Williams

"No amount of western foreign aid can bring about the political and socioeconomic climate necessary for economic growth."

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Canadian Prime Minister Declines to Attend AIDS 2006

In August, the world’s largest AIDS conference will be held in Toronto, Canada. Some 20 thousand people are expected to attend, but Canada’s prime minister will not be one of them.

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Diabetes Epidemic...more than just being overweight?

Diabetes is a disease often associated with being obese. In fact, in the last 30 years the incidence of diabetes has doubled and is primarily found in people considered obese. Most of those afflicted are Type 2, or a type of diabetes that is attributed to insulin resistance.

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Married with HIV

BBC News has been to Zambia as part of a special series looking at how Africa is faring one year on after the promises of increased aid made at the G8 summit in Gleneagles.

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Man Accused Of Not Disclosing HIV To Fiancee

Man Accused Of Not Disclosing HIV To Fiancee A city worker in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., was arrested after being accused of failing to tell his fiance that he was infected with HIV before they had sex and she was diagnosed with the disease, according to a Local 6 News report.

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Angelina Jolie Says U.S. Should Fight AIDS, Not Wars

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Aids timeline

An up-to-date and thought-provoking timeline of the spread of AIDS.

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Woman jailed for giving lover HIV

-- A woman who recklessly infected her lover with HIV has been jailed for more than two-and-a-half years. Sarah Jane Porter, 43, of Seaton Close, Kennington, south-east London, was sentenced to 32 months after admitting inflicting GBH recklessly.

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