Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala State Human Rights Commission has ordered the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh and monthly allowance of Rs 5,000 to a girl, 8, hailing from Mananthav

Vijayawada: Over 40,000 HIV positive cases are there in Krishna district and 35,000 people registered their names in various government hospitals. In addition 10,000 people approached the ART centres

As the numbers infected with incurable human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) keeps falling, experts are hopeful that AIDS could be eradicated in future due to better access to drugs that can both treat a

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the newly appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS, says she does not want to be just a ‘poster girl’ for the organisation but will help break social barri

From a cafe near the go-go bars of a Bangkok red light district where she campaigns for safe sex, Gigi gives an unvarnished view of how she joined Thailand's growing ranks of transgender people with H

A growing number of sex workers in the country are stepping beyond the immures of brothels and using mobile phones and Internet to solicit clients, posing a hurdle to health workers who find it diffic

After failing to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), through medical interventions, scientists will now take psychological and

An HIV positive man, who allegedly raped his minor step daughter infecting her with the life threatening disease, has been put on trial by a Delhi court on attempt to murder charges, besides that of raping her.

Tamil Nadu assembly speaker D. Jayakumar on Thursday urged the members of public to visit the Red Ribbon express scheduled to arrive Chennai, this Sunday.

Stressing that society should ideally be fr

Ravirajan had not eaten a morsel of food for five years. A person who loved to eat, it was like a death sentence, even worse than the fact that he had AIDS, when he realized he could only swallow milk