Stories tagged "hiv"

What's the significance of the red ribbon?

Today is World AIDS Day. Read this article for information on HIV and AIDS.

Report & Photos. The people that got infected with AIDS haven't got that written on their foreheads. If you shake someones hand, take a child into your arms, you don't know if that person or that child got AIDS. #WAD08

Many of us have heard a lot and know very much about different incurable diseases but AIDS is such a disease which arises several questions in the person’s

On the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, we look at simple yet powerful ways we can all help chip away at the deadly pandemic.

HIV is a virus that causes AIDS. It attacks a person’s immune system – leaving one weaker by the day.

Although Sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of the pandemic, the west is not spared by HIV/AIDS. In North America, for instance, 1,3 million people are living with the condition. Furthermore, 2007 was good for 46 000 new infections in this part of the wo

December 1 is World AIDS Day. Here are measures you can take to show your participation and support in the campaign.

There's a marked difference in the knowledge out there about HIV from the instant fear and massive homophobia of my eighties childhood. Ours was perhaps the first generation to be raised to have safe sex not to ward off unwanted pregnancy but to protect y

Additional evidence of the exciting potential of HIV treatment as prevention increases need to front-load funding, but the time is running out for the G8's commitment to make the universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment available by 2010. With 2010