The announcement of the cuts prompted warnings from around the world about the potential consequences. In the Journal of ...
July 18, 2005 — -- Sub-Saharan Africa is home to just 10 percent of the world's population, but more than 60 percent of all people living with HIV. For the millions of Africans infected with HIV ...
There you have it, not just the source of Iweala's title, but also the challenge that AIDS provokes. From the start, it has come with an agenda, "understood," to borrow a phrase from Susan Sontag, "as ...
WENTWORTH, SOUTH AFRICA — -- Alicia Keys did not have to come here, to this small town outside of Durban on South Africa's eastern coast, where the infection rate from HIV/AIDS is believed to be ...
There's a different story on this World AIDS Day in South Africa, which has the world's highest number of AIDS cases. AIDS is not only the leading killer of South African adults, but also of younger ...
Nov 20 (Reuters) - More than 33 million people are infected with the AIDS virus globally, fewer than original estimates of close to 40 million, the United Nations said in its latest report. Here are ...
In response to NEWSWEEK's special report on the devastating effect of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, many readers asked how they could help. Some suggestions: UNICEF has programs throughout Africa ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston estimate that between 2000 and 2005 more than 330,000 lives were lost because a "feasible and timely" AIDS drug ...
Almost no one knows the story of how PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, came into existence, and what it managed to accomplish before Elon Musk chainsawed it as waste. It is a ...
NAROK, KENYA - Jonathan Mwanza was once a powerful man in this rural town — a county councilor and lifetime member of Kenya's former ruling party. His hefty build spoke of wealth and authority. That ...
Cuts in support for anti-AIDS efforts in Africa by wealthy countries due to the global financial crisis are crippling health-care programs, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said on Thursday, ...
As the world will be celebrating World Aids day on December 1, it is prudent to review the fight on the scourge. Since the start of 21st century, HIV and Aids have increasingly been labelled an ...