ATLANTA, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Being circumcised significantly reduced the risk of HIV infection in heterosexual African-American men known to be exposed to the virus, U.S. researchers say.
LONDON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A British study suggested the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS is shifting from the most- to the least-educated people in sub-Saharan Africa.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- Sixty percent of hospital emergency room patients agreed to routine HIV screening in a study conducted in Washington.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Undiagnosed HIV infection is hanging over a generation of adolescents in Zimbabwe, causing organ damage, ill health and stunted growth, says a study.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists suggest patients who are HIV positive may be at an increased risk for developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
LONDON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- An epidemiological analysis has cast doubt on a theory that most sub-Saharan African HIV cases are transmitted by unsafe medical injections.
ATLANTA, March 31 (UPI) -- Primary health care providers should add routine HIV testing to patient care for all sexually active individuals, U.S. researchers say.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A government policy since 1997 of giving HIV patients free anti-HIV drugs has cut the national transmission rate by 53 percent, Taiwanese researchers said.
NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- Fewer and fewer child-bearing women in New York City were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus between 1988 and 2000.
NADI, Fiji, March 22 (UPI) -- HIV/AIDS must be controlled in the islands of the south Pacific before it sparks an epidemic, a U.N. official said Monday.
