A woman, living near Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire, accused of having the HIV virus and possibly giving it to soldiers, has told the BBC that she has tested negative. Nineteen-year-old Lyndsey Griffiths, who was at the centre of allegations about her relationship with army personnel at the garrison said she was
More than 30 million people are infected with HIV, the virus which causes Aids, says a new United Nations report. The UN Aids programme s report finds the epidemic is far worse than previously thought, with 16,000 new infections a day. It says one in every 100 sexually active adults worldwide is infected with HIV, but
United Nations officials say that there has been a ten fold increase during the past year in the number of people in Kazakhstan who tested positive for the HIV-virus, which can lead to AIDS. A UN envoy to Kazakhstan said the virus had spread because of lack of education about safe sex and the dangers of intravenous dru
China has given a new - much higher - estimate of the number of its people infected with the HIV virus, which can lead to Aids. The Ministry of Health has told the BBC that as many as 200,000 Chinese could be infected - twice as many as previously thought. The number of registered cases has reached more than 7,000.
In Britain, the medical journal, the Lancet, has given details about a man who was infected with HIV, which can lead to AIDS, when another man head-butted him after a car accident in northern Italy . The assault caused both men to bleed heavily and doctors believe the mixing of blood resulted in the infection. The
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