HIV

AIDS: UN agencies convene meeting to study male circumcision as curb to infection

23 February 2007
United Nations health agencies have convened an international meeting of AIDS experts for early March to examine the latest findings that male circumcision cuts the risk of HIV infection in men in heterosexual relations by up to 60 per cent.

Faith-based organizations play major role in fighting HIV/AIDS – UN study

9 February 2007
Faith-based organizations play a major role in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa and greater collaboration between them and public health agencies is needed if progress is to be made towards the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, according to a new United Nations study.