Worldwide, around a third of adults (about 1,5 billion people) and four out of five adolescents are failing to do the recommended amount of physical activity, placing them at a 20 to 30 percent greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer.
An international team of researchers examined the current understanding of why some people are more physically active than others.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced new results today that show a significant increase in treatment of HIV and in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
A TB drug combination that killed 99 percent of patients' bacteria in two weeks could cure TB in record time and cut treatment costs by 90 percent.
Results of a survey released today (Tues, 24 July) at the international AIDS conference in Washington shows that media communication programmes have a positive influence on people's behaviour. The research shows that people who are exposed to such programmes are more likely to test for HIV and to use condoms, for example.
'We believe that after six months, our patients will have become strong so they can go back and do their usual work,' said Esther Oduli, a social worker in Western Kenya, who works for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH).
When the International AIDS Conference was last held in Washington, D.C. in 1987, Ronald Reagan was U.S. president, the Soviet Union stood, a wall scarred a divided Berlin and China's economy was roughly the size of Spain's. The wider world ' and the AIDS epidemic ' has changed more than anyone foresaw. By David Wilson
Sport scientist Professor Tim Noakes continued his controversial stance yesterday, stating that dietary advice fed to the public for the last few decades are part of a conspiracy to promote higher consumption of corn-based products that are harmful to human health.
A far-flung Northern Cape town has been making world headlines over the last few years. Unfortunately for the wrong reasons - a 2002-study revealed that more than one in 10 (12.2%) children in the De Aar community had foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), giving the town the highest reported rate in the world.
Remember how difficult understanding sexuality and the changes in your body was when you were growing up? Well, today's adolescents go through the same hardships and probably know no better. But help is at hand in a newly published guide that explains the changes and developments in young bodies.
Countries most affect by the HIV pandemic are struggling to place enough people on treatment and to implement the best science and prevention strategies to fight the disease, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned.
Medicine stock-outs, broken machinery and poor hospital administration are hindering access to cancer treatment that determines whether patients live or die in the public sector.
The number of children infected globally with HIV has decreased by more than a quarter (26%) between 2009 and 2011, however more than 90 percent of the 3,4-million children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Deputy-President Kgalema Motlanthe and health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi will join a high-level line-up addressing the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) starting in Washington on Sunday.
JOHANNESBURG, July, 17, 2012 ' The South African Nursing Council (SANC) and Africa Health Placements (AHP) recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to bring more nurses to South Africa.
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