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HIV Is the Top Killer of Women Worldwide
According to the World Health Organization, HIV is the number one killer of women age 15-49. Heart disease kills older women, especially in rich countries, but of the 30.8 million HIV-positive adults in 2007, 15.5 million were women.
A staggering 26.1 percent of the population in Swaziland are infected with HIV — and half of women age 25-29 there are HIV positive.
US Lifts HIV/AIDS Travel Ban
For the last 22 years, foreign citizens living with HIV or AIDS have been forbidden to legally enter the US. As of Monday, that ban will be a thing of the past. On Friday, President Obama announced the decision to overturn the policy he called "rooted in fear rather than fact."
South Africa Weighs Legalizing Prostitution For World Cup
Fans heading to South Africa for the World Cup 2010 are interested in more than soccer. Anticipating that sport tourists will frequent prostitutes while they're in town, health experts are calling on the South African government to legalize prostitution for the tournament. The hope is that testing and registering legal sex workers will reduce HIV infections among visiting fans and South Africans alike.
Experimental HIV Vaccine Works!
Every day 7,500 new people worldwide are infected with HIV, and right now 33 million people have the virus. In the year 2007 alone, two million died from from AIDS related disease. These grim statistics are why the news that experimental HIV vaccine has worked in preventing the risk of infection is just amazing.
Obama Still Bans Needle Exchange Funding
Why were 26 anti-AIDS activists arrested yesterday at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington DC? Because the protesters chained themselves together at the landmark in protest of President Obama's ban on funding needle exchange programs as a part of federal HIV/AIDS prevention.
Despite promises made on the campaign trail that AIDS prevention funds should go to needle-exchange programs that help reduce infection among drug users (and the people who have sex with them), the Obama administration kept a previous ban on such programs in this year's budget.
Progress Made Against South Africa's Still Dire HIV Crisis
I could hardly believe it when I read that 33 percent of women between the ages of 20 and 34 are infected with HIV in South Africa. Thankfully, in the country with a total of 5.5 million people living with HIV, some progress is being made.
According to a new report, the overall infection rate has leveled off to 10.9 percent for those aged two or older, in part thanks to increased condom use.
Should Young Kids Be Taught About the Risk of HIV/AIDS?
Elton John's AIDS Foundation spreads the message of AIDS prevention with the hope of stopping the spread of the disease. In a new interview with CNN, Elton says that the US has something to learn from Africa when it comes to preventative education. If schools systematically taught American kids about the risk of HIV at a young age, a majority of citizens would know how to protect themselves by the time they became sexually active.
Early Testing Could Halt the Spread of HIV
It's estimated that about 250,000 Americans have HIV, but don't know it. Recently infected people could be the source of 10 to 50 percent of all new HIV transmissions.
A change in testing procedure might be needed to address the problem.
German Girl Band Star Faces Jail For Infecting a Man With HIV
Nadja Benaissa, pictured here on the far right, may find herself off of center stage and in jail. The German pop star has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm by infecting a man with HIV. This does not sound like something you want to go through in the media spotlight.
HIV/AIDS Crisis in US Capital — Three Percent Infected
Three percent of residents in Washington, DC, are infected with HIV or AIDS, a number that officially makes the illness a "severe epidemic." The rate, highest in the US, mirrors infection rates in Uganda and parts of Kenya, and it's higher than West Africa's.
The District's mayor and health officials are discussing a marketing campaign to push prevention and testing.
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