HIV & AIDS

Prince Harry and Elton John speak out at AIDS summit

Britain's Prince Harry and Sir Elton John shared a stage in South Africa on Thursday, warning that complacency threatened efforts to defeat AIDS and urging young people to lead the fight.

HIV & AIDS

Global AIDS gains 'inadequate and fragile,' UN chief says

Actress Charlize Theron, singer Elton John and Prince Harry are joining researchers, activists and policy makers at a global AIDS conference in South Africa this week to debate ways to better treat and prevent the disease.

HIV & AIDS

Half a million condoms ready for Angolan carnival

Nearly 500,000 condoms will be distributed in the Angolan capital Luanda during the four-day annual carnival that starts Saturday, in a campaign to help prevent the spread of AIDS, organisers said.

HIV & AIDS

HIV diagnoses hit record low in New York

The number of new HIV diagnoses in New York has hit a record low after falling nearly 40 percent in the last decade, city authorities said Tuesday.

HIV & AIDS

Indonesia's Papua battles AIDS epidemic

Fifteen-year-old Adina curls up in bed under a sheet, her body ravaged by AIDS, one of many caught up in an epidemic sweeping Indonesia's eastern Papua region.

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