Tag - AIDS
On 13th December, 2007 (Thursday), some researchers at the University Clinic of Ulm, Germany, revealed that an enzyme named prostatic acidic phosphatase (PAP), found in human semen, have the potential to spread the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)..
Today 1st December 1, 2007 is the 'World AIDS Day'. Through out the world in nearly every country this day will be celebrated to spread awareness about the disease, which is killing nearly 6000 people every day. Even the Miss World pageant that is...
With the record of 33.2 million patients infected with AIDS globally this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations AIDS agency said this number is better compared to last year's 39.5 million.
A decline of 6 million in recorded...
Doctors all over the globe are under immense pressure to get fast cures to diseases ranging from a boil on the face to fevers with shivers and stomach-flu with dehydration. Though medical textbooks advise a slow and patient route to curing most diseases..
According to the data provided by UNICEF, AIDS is a very common disease among the young, particularly the girls. About one-third of the people suffering from AIDS are below the age of 25, and almost two-thirds of them are women.
Unawareness among the...
Obesity epidemic is a bundle of diseases in itself. While briefings from the speech of Dr Colditz at the American Association for Cancer Research's international conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, points out at rising levels of...
The first international seminar on sexually transmitted diseases has set its goals to curb HIV/AIDS from China by 2010. China will be taking initiatives to control the spread of HIV/AIDS, which it suspects might cross 10bn, by 2010.
China has already...
Father's death gave a mission to Kerril McKay, President of the Portland AIDS Committee Adult Group. McKay's father died five years ago from AIDS. Since then, she promised to herself to help the people suffering from this deadly disease.
At present,...
The concern of CARE in Bangladesh is clearly visible as AIDS is knocking at its doorstep. It has started off by promoting awareness at the grassroots level. The rickshaw pullers and truck drivers are at the core of this deadly virus.
CARE has started...
New evidence suggests that the fight to battle AIDS was lost in evolutionary history.
While the homo sapiens specie was branching out from the common ape ancestors, old world viruses needed to be overcome so that the new specie evolved and matured....
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