Full Coverage: AIDS

14.12.2006

04.12.2006 Coinciding with World AIDS Day, the USAID-Nepal has pledged $25 million for two new health programmes for the next three years. Most of the estimated 70,000 people living with HIV/AIDS do not know they are infected, and HIV/AIDS related stigma and discrimination prevent them and others from seeking HIV counselling and testing, prevention, care and treatment services.

01.12.2006 NEW YORK, Nov 30 (IPS) - Smallpox, polio and a host of other contagious, often fatal diseases have been stopped in their tracks by simple vaccines. More than two decades into the quest to untangle the secrets of the notoriously changeable HIV virus, is there still reason for hope?

01.12.2006 We need to work together: governments, civil society, the private sector, religious organisations, and others — including those suffering from the disease and their loved ones- David C. Muldord reflects in the Hindu.

01.12.2006 Advance of HIV/AIDS is markedly reducing economic and employment growth in countries hit hardest by the epidemic, jeopardising their efforts to reduce poverty, create new jobs — especially for youth — and fight child labour, according to a report by the International Labour Office (of the International Labour Organisation) on the eve of World AIDS Day.