http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study on Monday showed increased HIV infection rates among pregnant women living in areas with high migrant labour in South Africa, the country with one of the world's highest caseloads. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-safrican-pregnant-women-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:20:34 EST news274368024 South Africa, home to the world's largest population of people living with HIV, said Thursday it had secured a deal to buy a key anti-retroviral (ARV) drug at the lowest price ever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-safrica-low-cost-arvs-minister.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:59:23 EST news273434324 (AP)—Officials in the nation's capital are asking senior citizens to think about HIV and AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-washington-tailors-hiv-aids-seniors.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:58:47 EST news269701121 The public health community has long struggled with how best to reduce HIV infection rates among black Americans, which is seven times that of whites. In a new paper in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of physicians and public health researchers report that African-American clergy say they are ready to join the fight against the disease by focusing on HIV testing, treatment, and social justice, a strategy that is compatible with religious teaching. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-clergy-hiv-faith-friendly-terms.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:17 EST news256405835 Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global health investigators and cancer specialists in New York, Qatar and Haiti suggests that aspirin should be evaluated for its ability to prevent development of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-aspirin-merits-cervical-cancer-hiv-infected.html Cancer Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:22:49 EST news246115362 Since HIV infection rates began to rise again around 2000, researchers have been grasping for answers on what could be causing this change, especially in the homosexual community. The rising numbers are a stark contrast to the 1990's, when infection rates dropped due to increased awareness of the virus. A new study in Israel reveals that the number of new HIV cases diagnosed each year in the last decade saw a startling increase of almost 500% compared to the previous decade, and similar trends have been reported in a number of other developed nations, including the U.S. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-hiv-infection.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:04:03 EST news233463820