Male circumcision may help men from contracting the HIV virus but does not protect wives and sexual partners of infected men, researchers reported in an article posted...

India is one of the 2nd largest populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that more or less 7 million...

AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a virus that is mainly transmitted by having sex with an infected partner. HIV also is spread through...

The spread from the high-risk behavior groups to the general populace is another key indicator that HIV/AIDs in India has reached epidemic proportions. The disease is...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 20 2009 Karamoja, here comes God’s messenger; but what a job she has got on her hands! Close to one million hungry, starving people,...

A parent unrivalling the intricacies in sex to a child has not been a common and easy practice. Most would rather let the child grow up, find out about sex and solely...

We need to view some so-called progressive concerns in a wider perspective. How can a failure to imbibe aberrations of human nature leads to creation of...

Bombay high court ruled against the HIV+ husband. His wife not only got divorce but also alimony. Someday ago family court in Pune told husband that you can’t leave...

Nine out of ten children with HIV do not have access to life-saving anti-retroviral drugs. Governments and donors need to be more ambitious in bringing existing...

To mark World AIDS Day, a Civil Forum on Global Health at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. will present President Bush with the first “International Medal of PEACE”...

HIV/AIDS is once again in the news and most importantly its about the prevalence rate in the Ugandan army. Over the past 21 years, the Uganda People’s Defence...

The government of Uganda is now developing a program to implement a nation-wide male circumcision exercise as part of the strategy to reduce HIV infection rates....

THE adage goes, ‘train a woman and you have trained a nation’. This is philosophy to development, right from the household. Many times it eludes society to the...

After 25 years of a generalized HIV epidemic in Uganda, a lot of progress in terms of mitigating the effects of the disease has been made. People who have contracted...

The government has started a campaign to test willing Ugandans of HIV/Aids from their homes. The Minister of Health, Dr Stephen Mallinga, told the Parliamentary...

Just to reiterate the most important point: AIDS is a surveillance tool that has been used to track and record 29 previously known illnesses when they appear in people...

First, there were character checks. Then there were bank balance and property checks. And now, there are health checks. Increasingly, detectives in the city are being...

Quiz me on things like- the most memorable experience, happiest moment of life and vice versa, one will find me speechless…I begin to wonder…Can I let out just one...

AIDSfreeAFRICA volunteer Jessica Kim writes from her experience as HIV/AIDS counselor: One day, I had the opportunity of meeting John, a college student who was being...

Chidambaram also said that the migratory labourers, lorry drivers and above all sex workers are the most vulnerable sections of the society.