HIV

A health worker counselling women about HIV/AIDS treatment

UN issues new guidelines for earlier start to treatment of HIV/AIDS

30 November 2009
On the eve of World AIDS Day, the United Nations today issued new recommendations for fighting the pandemic, calling for an earlier start to treatment for adults and adolescents, as well as urging HIV-positive mothers and their infants to take antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) while breastfeeding to prevent transmission.
Support group for people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa

UN reports promising trend in HIV infection rates, record numbers living with virus

24 November 2009
The trend in new HIV infections around the world has slowed markedly over the past eight years, according to a United Nations report released today, which also notes that more people than ever before are living with the virus.