St. Vincent & the Grenadines has recently achieved a significant milestone, joining 10 other Caribbean nations in obtaining certification from the United Nations Programme on HIV...
Press Release | Botswana has become the first high-burden country to be certified for achieving an important milestone on the path to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of...
Barbados is on track to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030, according to UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé. The Caribbean country...
Thirteen countries in the Caribbean region are on track to being certified as having eliminated HIV transmission from mother to child, while another three are getting...
UNAIDS Caribbean said Monday that 8 regional countries have finalized specific strategies aimed at strengthening their HIV programs by making them more responsive to human rights....
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a World AIDS day event. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative at the National Institutes...
The Caribbean has joined the rest of the global community in observing World AIDS Day by issuing a reminder to the region of the commitment to...
Since the implementation of a comprehensive prevention program in 2004 by health officials in St Vincent & the Grenadines have reported a decrease in the number...
(Reuters) – Seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have cut the number of new HIV infections in children by 50 percent since 2009, the United Nations AIDS...
A Kenyan researcher, Dr. Simon Barasa-Situma of the Technical University of Kenya, has modified the world’s first recorded HIV “cure” and says it has worked effectively...
(Black PR Wire) – Menlo Park, CA, March 7, 2013 – Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys has teamed up with Greater Than...
Africa is pulling out all the stops in its race to curb the AIDS pandemic by 2015, a deadline set by UN member states. From making...
Jamaica says it intends to eliminate mother to child transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and syphilis in Jamaica by 2015. The government of Jamaica...
South African scientists have discovered how some people can make potent antibodies capable of neutralizing strains of HIV, taking researchers a step closer to developing a...
In the United States, black women make up 60 percent of all new infections among women, most acquiring the disease through heterosexual contact, according to the...
Houston pastor Timothy W. Sloan has felt for years that he needed to talk about HIV and AIDS with his congregation. But he worried the 3,000...
Of the more than 1 million people in the United States infected with HIV, nearly half are African American men, women and children — even though...
The South African province of Gauteng sees Georgia as a place to begin erasing the negative stereotypes that can keep Americans from investing in their country....
The numbers make it clear: AIDS has devastated black America. Nearly half of all Americans living with HIV are black men and women; 46 percent, three...
Zambia is among 22 other Sub-Saharan African countries that have seen their Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection rates dropping by 25 percent, a 2011 UN World...
Does race matter when it comes to H.I.V.?
Earvin “Magic” Johnson isn’t the reflective type. He tends not to dwell on the past or even second-guess the decision he made 10 minutes ago. So...
MBABANE, Swaziland — Cash-strapped Swaziland’s state hospitals have only two months’ supplies of AIDS drugs, the country’s health minister has told parliament in an assessment that...
As a community, we should do our part to educate ourselves. Where we complicate things is not learning and not practicing safety. We must protect ourselves...
