The World Health Organization says the global target of 15 million people taking life-saving AIDS drugs by 2015 is just a first step.

With 8 million people in poor countries taking them now, WHO's Dr

The global AIDS epidemic is on the decline, but progress is worryingly slow, according a new United Nations report.

Around 2.5 million people became newly infected with HIV last year, taking the total to 34.2 million people globally living with the deadly virus, a new United Nations report has said.

With almost 1

The Meghalaya Aids Control Society on Saturday said the state was vulnerable to HIV/AIDS with the number of patients increasing among the high risk groups but prevalence of the disease was comparative

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said ministries should make various schemes more accessible to people with HIV/AIDS, from employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme to more access to women and children to Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).

Welsh scientists say their successful cloning of a human virus could lead to new treatments for life-threatening diseases.
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major infectious cause of congenital malfor