Articles related to "Hiv Transmission"

Every year nearly half a million children under the age of fifteen are infected with HIV. Of these, ninety percent result from mother-to child transmission.

The number of Australians living with HIV has risen by almost 10,000 cases in the past decade and today there are more than 28,000 registered cases of the virus.

Anti-retroviral therapy can effectively suppress the viral load until it is undetectable. However, the best way to prevent HIV transmission is still safer sex practices.

A new study finds that the HIV virus can penetrate women's healthy genital skin, something scientists did not think possible, but the research could lead to vaccines.

There were more than 56,000 new HIV infections in the United States in 2006. Researchers have broken down the statistics to show which groups are most at risk.

A recent U.S. funded study may be showing a promise of a possible HIV vaccine that may reduce the number of newly infected people with the AIDS disease worldwide.

HIV-1 and HIV-2 are two different strains of the virus that causes AIDS. While there are many similarities between the two strains, there are also important differences.

Unprotected oral sex carries risks of HIV transmission. Understand why this is so, and learn about precautions that can be taken to minimize the risks.

The World Health Organization provides valuable information about HIV/AIDS - one of the most significant public health challenges across the globe.

For almost 30 years, health officials have struggled to contain AIDS, which is now known to be the end result of HIV infection.

Although, biologically, AIDS does not discriminate the reality is that some communities have been hit harder by this pandemic.

Options for safer conception when you're HIV Positive, how to minimise risks of transmission of HIV, risks to your baby.

More than 15,000 people in the District of Columbia have HIV or AIDS, equal to 3 percent of the city's adult population. Older African American men are hardest hit.

Nearly 1200 children are infected with HIV each day, many of whom end up as orphans - along with millions of other children who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS.

Report from the World Health Organization and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS confirms that HIV infection rate has dropped significantly in past eight years.

Although breastfeeding is the ideal form of nutrition for an infant, mothers infected with HIV should avoid breastfeeding as HIV can be transmitted through breastfeeding.

A new study reveals that a topical gel could stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to women.

HIV positive mothers are the cause for the increase of the HIV/AIDS virus in children. Pregnant women owe it to their children's health and their own to get an AIDS test.

Promising research worldwide has identified a chemical entity---EGCG--in green tea that prevents sexually-transmitted HIV infection and could inhibit the spread of AIDS.

South Africa currently has the worst AIDS epidemic in the world, with more than 5.6 million cases of HIV/AIDS. Every day, 1,000 South Africans die of AIDS related causes.

An analysis of the effectiveness of abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education based on recent studies.

Any parent knows there are significant differences between 15 year olds and 18 year olds. These small age differences can mean important stresses in peer values.

Despite extreme poverty, Haiti has made remarkable progress in combating the HIV epidemic. Infection rates stayed in the single digits, and deaths due to AIDS decreased.

Protect yourself by learning about the HIV virus and how it can and cannot be transmitted.

Part two of a multipart series on the origins and implications of recreational drugs. From the poppy fields of Asia, pain relief and addiction were born.

UNAIDS provides valuable facts on how HIV antiretroviral therapy can prevent the development of AIDS in HIV-positive people so they can live longer, healthier lives.