PARIS: Fewer people contracted HIV last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that this decline was still far too slow.

A new Lancet study reports notable progress in combating HIV, with a 20% drop in new infections and a 40% during the 2010s.

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East Africa is experiencing an increased inflow and use of illegal harmful, mind-altering and sense-numbing deadly narcotics.

Fewer people contracted HIV last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations ...

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Titled “Take the rights path to end AIDS,” the report outlines how stigma, discrimination, and punitive laws hinder progress in the fight against HIV. Despite significant advancements in HIV treatment ...

LGBTQ, health care, and AIDS activists will be commemorating the 36th annual World AIDS Day Sunday, December 1, with events ...

In Uganda, women and girls are more affected by HIV. Out of 1.4 million people living with the disease, 860 000 are women and ...

Gaps in realising human rights could stop AIDS being ended as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS has warned in a report ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday recommended his Cabinet approve a United States-brokered ceasefire ...

People with HIV will soon be permitted to receive transplanted kidneys and livers from donors who are also infected with the ...