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China AIDS

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Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) speaks as he shows the agency's new report entitled UNAIDS Outlook 2010 during its launch press conference ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 in Shanghai, ...

Fertility drugs may pose some uterine cancer risk

Reuters US Online Report Health News 2 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Though the use of fertility drugs does not seem to generally increase uterine cancer risk, a Danish study identified small increases in risk from certain fertility drugs used for longer duration. Dr. Allan Jensen, with the Danish ...

AIDS deaths top 25 mln but infections slow

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but new infections are slowing sharply, the UN said in an annual report on the crisis Tuesday that mixed hope with a warning against complacency. Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV ...

AIDS deaths top 25 million but infections slow

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but new infections are slowing sharply, the UN said in an annual report on the crisis Tuesday that mixed hope with a warning against complacency. Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV ...

Sub-Saharan Africa leads global HIV infections: UNAIDS

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Sub-Saharan Africa still has the world's highest number of HIV cases, accounting for 67 percent of global infections, a United Nations reports said on Tuesday. "An estimated 1.9 million people were newly infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2008, bringing to ...

AIDS death toll passes 25 mln: UNAIDS

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but new infections are slowing sharply, the UN said on Tuesday as it issued its annual report that mixed hope with a warning against complacency. Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV ...

UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996

AP News 2 days ago

UN: HIV epidemic peaked in 1996, number of infected almost unchanged since 2007 The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS — about 33 million — has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts ...

HIV kills 25 million, infects 60 million: UNAIDS

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Almost 60 million people have been infected by HIV and 25 million people killed by causes related to the virus since the epidemic started, according to new data published by UNAIDS on Tuesday. While prevention programmes have helped to cut infection rates ...

Over 33 million infected with AIDS virus: U.N.

Reuters US Online Report World News 2 days ago

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, up from 33 million in 2007, but more people are living longer due to the availability of drugs, according to a United Nations report. However, more than ...

New HIV infections down 17%: UNAIDS

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

New HIV infections have fallen by 17 percent over the past eight years, UNAIDS said Tuesday, noting that prevention programmes were having an impact. "The good news is that we have evidence that the declines we are seeing are due, at least ...

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