New Delhi's gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality -- a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.
SIRTE, Libya, July 2, 2009 (AFP) - The global economic crisis poses a "major threat" to the fight against AIDS in Africa as funding for treatment programmes dries up, a top UN official said Thursday.
South Africa urged its public service doctors Thursday to halt wildcat strikes and accept a revised wage offer after low salaries and abysmal working conditions led them to abandon patients.
A top Indian court issued a landmark ruling Thursday that decriminalised gay sex between consenting adults by declaring a colonial-era ban on homosexuality unconstitutional.
An anthology published by the Palm Beach County Health Department is helping raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the black community, one of the groups hit hardest by the disease.
Students who participated in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District's sex education program displayed more knowledge and better attitudes about safer-sex practices than non- participants, according to a new study.
The deputy chair of the South African National AIDS Council has warned that the nation could face a 1 billion rand (US $128 million) shortfall for HIV/AIDS drugs this year.
The Chicago Department of Family and Support Services has awarded the Test Positive Aware Network a $331,000 grant to expand its existing programs addressing mental health and substance abuse.
Salt Lake Valley Health Department officials are alarmed by the steady increase in HIV rates over the past three years, a trend preliminary 2009 data suggest is continuing.
The interconnections between substance use, HIV risk, and lack of adherence to HIV medications are particularly strong among homeless individuals, as has been noted in earlier research.
Because she went public with her battle against anal cancer, doctors are hopeful that Farrah Fawcett's legacy will be an increased awareness of the illness and an end to the stigma that surrounds it.
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