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But that night it was an issue that was in the spotlight, an issue that touches every sector and piles taboo upon taboo:  the challenges for women of HIV and gender violence.    It is an issue that desperately needs...

HELSINKI, (Xinhua) -- Finland has confirmed the country's first known human-to-pig transmission of A/H1N1 influenza, said Finnish Food Safety Authority and Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare in a statement on Monday. According to the agencies, samples taken from...

A YOUNG mother died just 24 hours after being told she had swine flu – leaving behind a five-year-old daughter. Samantha Cooper, 24, had suffered health problems all her life, battling rheumatoid arthritis and asthma. But she developed a cough...

Despite Brazil's success in curbing HIV infection rates and securing almost universal access to treatment and prevention services, the battle to end the stigma, discrimination and fear that still surrounds the virus is far from won. These pictures highlight the...

European researchers have found an association between mums who used the repellent in the earliest phase of pregnancy and an increased rate of "hypospadias" in the penises of their male children...The condition affects one to two boys in every 500...

Abbott Laboratories has settled U.S. patent litigation over its blockbuster cholesterol pill TriCor in a deal that allows generic versions of the drug in early 2011. The North Chicago -based drug giant said Monday that Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries can sell...

End the gay blood ban Any man who has had sex with a man, even once, even 50 years ago, and even if they test HIV-negative, cannot give blood Pressure is mounting on the Department of Health and the National...

A report last month suggested that up to a third of youngsters in some areas may have had swine flu without showing symptoms. GPs were last week urged to go "full throttle" to vaccinate as many vulnerable patients as possible...Overall...

A campaign had been launched in encouraging oung people to talk more openly bout sex and contraception. The contraception "worth talking about" scheme is aimed at cutting the UK's teen pregnancy rate which currently stands as the highest in Europe....

A DISTRAUGHT five-year-old girl will have to grow up alone after swine flu claimed the life of her mum at the age of just 24. Samantha Cooper died three years after her brother, whose life was also tragically cut short...