Each day Vietnam has from 50 to 100 new HIV carriers, according to a report entitled “Considering the AIDS situation in Asia: Sketching an effective response” released by Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan and Dr. JVR Prasada Rao, Director of UNAIDS’s Asia-Pacific Regional Assistance Office, on May 20.
According to this report, AIDS is [...]
Up to 100 Vietnamese Contract HIV Daily
HIV Cases Rise in Germany
Germany experienced some 2,752 new cases of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, during 2007.
That’s an increase of about 4 percent over the previous year, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the federal institute responsible for disease control and prevention.
While the number of infections decreased among three groups: heterosexuals, drug addicts, and immigrants from [...]
Straight Men Also at Risk for Anal HPV
Prevalence and risk factors for human papillomavirus-related anal lesions were evaluated in 60 men with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Patients underwent anal cytology, anuscopy under colposcopic vision and anal biopsy for detection of the lesions. The mean age was 41.9 years and the mean time of HIV infection was 6.8 years, 88.3% of [...]
UN Urges Progress in Fighting Mother-Child Transmission
Only a quarter of HIV-positive pregnant women in poorer countries receive antiretroviral therapy to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to a UN report issued on April 3rd. Nevertheless, the report found that increasing numbers of HIV-positive children and expectant mothers are receiving anti-HIV drugs.
Jointly produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS and UNICEF, [...]
AIDS Advocates in New York Fight Racial and Economic Disparities
Somewhere in the decades since gay, white men first rallied to fight the disease that had plagued their community, African-American men and women found themselves in the midst of a sneak attack.
HIV, though eventually found in people as varied as hemophilic children to affluent sports stars, is not altogether colorblind. But it’s not a secret [...]
HIV Rising Among Baltimore’s Twentysomethings
Six years after city officials declared a “state of emergency” over Baltimore’s AIDS problem, a commission is calling for stronger prevention efforts to reverse an epidemic that remains one of the nation’s worst.
In a report released yesterday, the advisory panel said Baltimore is beset by rising infection rates among adults in their 20s. Meanwhile, African-Americans [...]
Op-Ed: Swiss Say Condoms Not Necessary…Sometimes
POZ Founder Sean Strub
The Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS released a remarkable statement a few weeks ago that opened the door to the possibility of sex without condoms for people with HIV.
Citing their review of a long string of studies measuring HIV transmission from people with HIV to HIV-negative partners, the Commission concluded that sex [...]
An Epidemic No One Wants to Talk About
A much-publicized study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month highlighted the high rates of sexually transmitted diseases among teenage Americans. But for those of us who work in public health, this “news” is already old.
A decade ago, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine published a landmark report, “The Hidden [...]
Japan’s HIV infections hit record high in 2007
The number of people newly infected with HIV in Japan hit a record high of 1,048 in 2007, exceeding the 1,000 mark for the first time in history, Japanese media reported Wednesday.
According to a report released by the health ministry’s AIDS Surveillance Committee, the number of people developed AIDS in the year reached 400.
The total [...]
Rift Over AIDS Treatment Lingers in South Africa
It has been proven that using at least two antiretroviral medications dramatically reduces the likelihood of transmitting HIV during childbirth. President Mbeki’s past sex scandal involved him having sex with an HIV-positive woman, which he denies, speaks to a government that is harming its citizens through inaction. There is a widely held belief that pharmaceutical [...]