That women and girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS is well established, but a new report reveals how little we know about what countries are doing, or not doing, to address their vulnerability.

New data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update shows HIV infections in the world have reduced by 17 percent over the past eight years.

South Africa has secured an additional $108 million from the Global Fund to finance its HIV prevention projects over the next five years.

FIRST Lady Thandiwe Banda has said that Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS is the surest way of saving humanity from extinction.

A group of Tanzanian Members of Parliament has commended the ongoing efforts in the fight against HIV/Aids, saying that Rwanda is a country that offers unique solutions aimed at controlling the scourge.

A HIV testing drive is on to fight Aids in which more than one million Kenyans are expected to get tested for HIV during a national campaign launched on Monday.

In the build up towards World AIDS Day, the North West Health and Social Development Department will be taking its HIV and AIDS awareness campaign to farming communities.

HIV positive mothers on antiretroviral drug can exclusively breast feed their babies for a period of six months without passing the virus to the children, the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Professor John Idoko

Members of the HIV/AIDS community group of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Taraba State have organised an HIV/AIDS sensitisation campaign for people in Kona community in Jalingo Local government of Taraba state.

To commemorate the World AIDS Day on December 1, The New Vision, in conjunction with the parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS, will award individuals who have played a remarkable role in the fight against HIV in their communities. Profiles of the

OVER 1,515 people in Pallisa district, including the Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Mallinga, have been tested for HIV. This was during a function at Butebo Health Centre IV in Butebo county on Monday.

Children yesterday appealed to the government to increase the provision and access to antiretroviral drugs in order to accelerate HIV/aids treatment.