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More Than One Million People in India Living With HIV/AIDS Have No Access to Treatment 0

Over one million people in India living with HIV/AIDS are without access to the much-needed anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, a new international report said today (Sunday, October 03, 2010), suggesting that India should consider issuing compulsory licensing for the increasing availability of drugs.
Indian children suffering from HIV posing for the camera
According to a joint report issued [...]

South African youngsters apparently benefit from school-based program 0

It seems that school-based programs help teens, or at least this piece of information suggests so. A recent study claims that school-based, six-session program targeting sexual risk behaviors decrease rates of unprotected sex and sex with multiple partners among South African sixth-graders. With almost 5.5 million HIV or sexually transmitted disease (STD) patients in South [...]

State funding cuts hit home for local HIV/AIDS patients 1

Jennie Yeaman was pregnant with her first child when a routine blood test revealed she was HIV-positive. “I got it from having sex with my husband,” she said. “Imagine that.”
That was 18 years ago, before anti-retroviral medications transformed AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic condition. She was overjoyed that her newborn son wasn’t [...]