TWELVE YEARS INTO THE AIDS epidemic, most of us can recite the truism that HIV spreads through sex and shared needles, not through social contact. When it comes to watching our own kids share toys, ...

WORCESTER - On a recent afternoon in AIDS Project Worcester's unassuming headquarters in the rear of a Green Street building, Martha Akstin, director of prevention and screening, said the nonprofit ...

The World Health Organization's long-held position that dirty needles cause 2.5 percent of African HIV exposures is too conservative, says a leading researcher at the U.N. agency, prompting questions ...

There's a lot of buzz at the 19th International AIDS Conference about powerful new strategies to prevent HIV infection. But a potent old strategy isn't used enough around the world, many researchers ...

Today, the African American community will gather under the banner of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day to bring attention to this modern plague and its disparate impact on the black community.

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For six years the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod has run a needle distribution program in Hyannis to put clean needles in the hands of intravenous drug users to combat the spread of disease. But two ...

If you could severely mitigate the spread of the HIV, AIDS, and hepatitis C, would you? According to the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, injecting drug use accounts for 36 percent of AIDS cases ...

As the world observes HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, attention turns to education, stigma reduction, and empowering communities to ...

Explore the controversial debate on AIDS in Africa: Is sexual transmission the main culprit behind the epidemic? Find out more. Recent research questioning whether most AIDS in Africa is spread ...

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