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Idaho State Journal - Fri Nov 27, 8:07 pm ET
Nearly 1,200 Idahoans live with HIV or AIDS, with more than 50 new cases reported in Idaho in 2009. People can show support for those affected, their families, caregivers and friends — and take advantage of HIV testing — at a number of events around the state on Tuesday, World AIDS Day.
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Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 25, 2:07 pm ET
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - 11/25/09) - In honor of World AIDS Day, The AIDS Institute (TAI), one of the nation's leading advocacy organizations for support of people with HIV/AIDS and their providers, joined Nobel Laureate Dr. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, in calling for government leaders, patient advocates and the research community to expand therapeutic HIV vaccine research. TAI believes with ...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 4:59 am ET
An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, according to a report issued on Tuesday in Shanghai by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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EARTHtimes.org - 2 hours 37 minutes ago
Manila - Congressman Ferdinand Marcos Junior, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, on Saturday filed his certificate of candidacy for senator in next year's elections. It will be the second attempt of a Marcos scion to seek a national post sinc...
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Boise Weekly - Wed Nov 25, 6:21 am ET
Looking back over the last two decades, I remember the '90s being permeated by HIV/AIDS benefits, education, research. As a teen, I was downright scared of contracting HIV. Back then, it was an epidemic. by Rachael Daigle By the time I was 17, I was too busy being an obnoxious teenager to hang out with my parents on weekend afternoons. One particularly cold Saturday afternoon in Omaha, Neb ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Sat Nov 28, 2:41 am ET
Manila - Senator Benigno Aquino III, son of Philippine democratic icon and former president Corazon Aquino, filed on Saturday his candidacy for president in next year's elections. Aquino, 49, accompanied by vice-presidential running mate Manuel Roxas...
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EARTHtimes.org - Sat Nov 28, 1:56 am ET
Jakarta - A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck a remote eastern Indonesian island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury and damage, officials said. The quake took place at a depth of 30 kilometres, locate...
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 11:05 am ET
Press Conference with Dr. Gao Yaojie, Author of China's AIDS Plague: 10,000 Letters, December 1, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
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EARTHtimes.org - Sat Nov 28, 1:41 am ET
Islamabad - Pakistan's beleaguered President Asif Ali Zardari has amended a key law to relinquish the executive control over the country's nuclear weapons to the prime minister. The change in the structure of the National Command Authority (NCA) came...
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EARTHtimes.org - Sat Nov 28, 1:11 am ET
Beijing - Ten workers have been confirmed dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in south-west China, in the third mining accident this week, state media reported Saturday. The explosion o...
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UPI - Tue Nov 24, 11:34 am ET
SHANGHAI, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- New infections of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, have been reduced worldwide 17 percent during the past eight years, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 3:13 am ET
An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, according to a statement issued by the World Health Organization and the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 11:56 pm ET
Beijing - Three people died and four others were injured after a Zimbabwean cargo plane caught fire at Shanghai Pudong international airport on Saturday morning, local media reported. The plane was preparing for takeoff when it veered off the runway ...
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Gay City News - Fri Nov 27, 9:17 pm ET
Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the Chelsea-based nonprofit that provides lifesaving services for men and women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, held its third annual Fashion Forward gala on Mon., Nov. 16, to salute the fashion industry’s commitment to the cause.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 11:11 pm ET
Manila - The horrific massacre of 57 civilians this week in the southern Philippines was a grim reminder of the influence of political families in the country and the perils of breaking from their stranglehold. The main suspect in the November 23 gru...