18th International AIDS Conference
Health : World AIDS conference closes
The 18th International AIDS Conference closed in Vienna on Friday after six days of seminars, workshops and networking on fighting AIDS and...
AIDS / Vienna conference : Activists lobby for ‘Robin Hood’ levy to raise funds
A "Robin Hood" tax of just a fraction of a percent on financial transactions could smash the funding crisis gripping the war on...
Health : Record number of children getting HIV drugs
Life-saving drugs that quell HIV reached a record 355,000 children at the end of last year, compared with 276,000 a...
Health / AIDS : Major step seen in quest for anti-HIV vaginal gel
Scientists on Monday reported a major stride towards a vaginal gel that can thwart HIV, a goal that would be of huge benefit...
Health : Huge rise in patients on HIV drugs
Anti-HIV drugs reached 1.2 million more people last year, the UN announced Monday at the world AIDS forum, as former US president Bill Clinton...
World economic crisis hits AIDS funding, 25 billion dollars has to be mustered
Funding by rich economies for poor countries fighting HIV/AIDS fell back slightly last year, to 7.6 billion dollars after 7.7 billion dollars in 2008,...
