The male condom is still the most effective intervention to prevent HIV transmission. Evidence from studies to suggest that male circumcision decreases the risk even further is still inconclusive, a South African scientist has told delegates at the Bangkok AIDS Conference.
The Bush Administration's approach to the global fight against HIV/AIDS is increasingly taking on the domineering, "go-it-alone" trademarks of US foreign policy.
Entering the arrivals hall at Bangkok Airport in Thailand, one is greeted by energetic young men and women dressed in cream-white shirts sporting the XV International AIDS Conference's red emblem depicting three elephants to the left of the chest, symbolising unity in the global fight against AIDS.
Entering the arrivals hall at Bangkok Airport in Thailand, one is greeted by energetic young men and women dressed in cream-white shirts sporting the XV International AIDS Conference's red emblem depicting three elephants to the left of the chest, symbolising unity in the global fight against AIDS.
It was a process of turning down the heat as South African scientists, health workers, government officials and activists met to clarify recent statements by the Medicines Control Council and the Minister of Health.
It was a process of turning down the heat as South African scientists, health workers, government officials and activists met to clarify recent statements by the Medicines Control Council and the Minister of Health.
It was a process of turning down the heat as South African scientists, health workers, government officials and activists met to clarify recent statements by the Medicines Control Council and the Minister of Health at lunchtime.
A little corner of the Impact Conference Centre in Bangkok felt like home but for all the wrong reasons.
In a world of numbers and science, the human dimension of HIV/AIDS is less easily quantifiable but critically important. Human rights and language featured strongly in the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture at the Bangkok AIDS conference.
In a world of numbers and science, the human dimension of HIV/AIDS is less easily quantifiable but critically important. Human rights and language featured strongly in the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture at the Bangkok AIDS conference.
Incensed by their President's morally-laced speech at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Ugandan AIDS activists have responded sharply.
Across Africa and in over 100 impoverished nations worldwide, the most vulnerable children - AIDS orphans, girls and the poor - are denied access to education.
The Medicines Control Council has recommended that nevirapine no longer be the only antiretroviral drug being offered to pregnant HIV positive mothers to prevent them passing the virus on to their newborn babies.
HIV/AIDS is a problem that is mainly 'moral, social and economic' rather than a health issue,Ugandan President Yuweri Museveni told delegates at the International AIDS conference in Bangkok.
A poster held high by a Thai activist before the opening of the International AIDS conference in Bangkok summed up the urgency of the situation: 'You talk, we die, AIDS treatment, access now.'
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