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When his uncle and cousin lost their lives to AIDS-related illnesses, William Rogers remembers how his father told the family about their deaths-that they had succumbed to cancer. For Rogers, [...]

Abstract Objective - To assess the trend in HIV-1 seroprevalence in an adult population in Uganda. Design - an observational cohort study with four year follow up. Setting - a [...]

Abstract Objective - To determine prevalence of HIV infection and drug injecting behaviour among inmates of Glenochil Prison on a specified date a year after an outbreak of hepatitis B [...]

Objective--To trace, follow up, and interview a group of patients known to be injecting drug users in order to establish current drug taking and other features related to drug use [...]

THEY told us that the biggest health problems for people between the ages of 15 and 30 were pimples, puberty and PMS. They were wrong! For a series of startling [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jul-16 -- (CongressDaily) Dismayed by HIV/AIDS infection rates in Miami-Dade that are among the highest in the nation, Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Fla., backed by local health officials and [...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 24. 1999 'In a report released in advance of World AIDS Day on December 1, the United Nations said that of the 22.3 million adults [...]

Twenty-two million to 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV. About 14 million have already died. Millions more will die in this decade. In some African countries, [...]

Africans in Britain are the country's second biggest group, after homosexual men, to be infected with HIV, a conference in London heard last week. Yet research into the specific factors [...]

Medical experts have grown increasingly concerned by the rise in the number of women who are contracting HIV/AIDS. Apparently the concern stems from the fact that these women aren't engaging [...]

Photo: Edwards, Conley: food and advice; Photo: Downtown Eastside: sharing needles, 40 per cent of 8,000 cocaine and heroin users are HIV-positive Blood Alley is a laneway in the gentrified [...]

Discussions about HIV and AIDS in prisons have been hampered by the lack of data on the prevalence of HIV among prisoners and on their risk behaviour. [1] We present [...]

HIV Incidence in Nevada? To THE EDITOR: In their recent article summarizing the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Nevada, Jarvis and Semiatin state [...]

Questions addressed include the need for HIV testing following a single, unprotected episode with a known HIV-seropositive partner; risks of pregnancy when the father is HIV seropositive; and men's vs women's chances for seroconversion in a heterosexual relationship when one partner is HIV seropositive. Also discussed is the question of whether HIV-seropositive persons should be prohibited from donating blood for autologous transfusion because of the resultant risk to health care personnel., Although homosexual behavior and intravenous drug use remain the predominant risk factors for HIV infection in this country, heterosexual spread of the virus is increasing. Female partners of men who [...]

AMERICA COULD FOLLOW THE LEAD OF OTHER COUNTRIES when it comes to dealing with our domestic AIDS crisis, suggests Phill Wilson, executive director of the Black AIDS Institute. The Los [...]

ARTICLE CONSULTANTS LISA CAPALDINI, MD, is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; and Director, Castro Medical Clinic, San Francisco. PAUL E. SAX, MD, [...]

While most industrialised nations and a handful of developing countries are seeing the spread of HIV infection level off or even decline, infection rates are reaching alarming new highs in [...]

The statistics are staggering, shocking, and scary: The AIDS virus is now the leading killer of young to middle-aged Black adults. The recently released findings were contained in a new [...]

'Among sexually active people, those being infected with the AIDS virus at the fastest rate are women in their teens and early twenties, including many who have had relatively few [...]