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THE number of Australians newly diagnosed with HIV is about 40 per cent higher than it was four years ago. This is because young people in particular are not aware of the risks of unprotected sex, an expert says. Just...

Should the decision be made to open up the vaccination program to everyone, Kieckhefer said, the vaccine probably would be offered before next year. He noted that administrators with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not changed...

Posing as patients, three undercover observers got themselves admitted as patients to a locked psychiatric ward to investigate conditions on the inside. Each undercover patient had rehearsed an extensive back story, and the supposed family members who visited them were...

Just take the instance of Assam where you have 3,752 HIV-positive people, and of this just 2,205 are registered with the Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centres. This gives one an idea that more than 1,500 people carrying the virus are not...