With close to 20 million deaths since the early days of the epidemic, 40 million people living with HIV, 4.3 million new infections and 2.9 million deaths caused by AIDS in 2006, the world is facing the most severe health crisis in history.
I would like to reiterate a common place saying in the HIV and AIDS response: `It is not about how you contracted the virus — it is about how we will all respond to the HIV infection.` So there is no room for moralizing the epidemic or placing judgment. I will not keep you guessing- yes, I am HIV positive; I am a woman, and I am from Africa. And I am here to remind each and every one of us of the importance of keeping our promise.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls upon “every organ of society” to promote and secure the recognition and observance of human rights.
To make a significant contribution to the struggle against the spread of HIV and to assist Caritas member organisations in mobilising an effective response to the needs posed by the HIV epidemic.
Physicians who once treated mainly elderly patients for health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke are seeing increasingly younger patients who have the same ailments.
The South African government is expected to announce a newly-revised AIDS-combating strategy this week with intensified prevention and treatment measures, a long-waited boost to the country’s arduous fight against the world’s most serious AIDS epidemic.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) in cooperation with the National AIDS Fund today launched the third annual “Light to Unite” campaign in support of World AIDS Day. This year’s “Light to Unite” program shines a light on the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in underserved communities throughout the United States. Bristol-Myers Squibb and the National AIDS Fund are encouraging people across the country to visit http://www.lighttounite.org/ to show their support and to educate themselves and others on emerging HIV/AIDS issues within diverse communities across the U.S.
Global health inequalities are substantial, growing and influenced by economic, social and health-sector variables as well as geography, a study concludes in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
It sounds like the stuff of a campy ’50s horror movie (“It Came from the Ice!”), but a Bowling Green State University biologist believes it’s a very real possibility.
Sri Lanka has confirmed an epidemic of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya viral fever, a top health official said on Saturday. Doctors suspect it has infected 5,000 people in the island’s far north.