Sub-Saharan Africa only has 12.5 percent of the world's population but, last year, 70 percent of its new HIV infections (1.9 out of 2.7 million) and 67 percent of its AIDS-related deaths (1.2 out ...

AIDS activists protest in Cape Town 26 November 2001 against the government's policy on HIV/AIDS. ANNA ZIEMINSKI/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Related article South Africa's HIV failures cost more than ...

At the time, less than 50,000 people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa were on treatment, despite an estimated 2.75 million people dying from AIDS globally the previous year.

Twenty years ago, HIV\/AIDS was a death sentence in Africa. Today, the it is considered by many to be a manageable condition like diabetes, thanks in no small part to an extraordinarily successful ...

North African Countries Discuss the AIDS Challenge. 2 November 2000. Panafrican News Agency (Dakar) Tripoli, Libya — Delegates from Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Sudan and Libya are winding ...

More than 400,000 people currently living with HIV across MENA; of those, 68,000 need anti-retroviral treatment ...

The drug Kaletra goes bad if it is not kept cold, so getting it to a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Juraji Bakari in this sun-baked African village 300 miles south of the equator is no mean feat. Th… ...

Bush demanded billions for AIDS in Africa at his 2003 State of the Union. It paid off. Benjamin Ryan. Updated Wed, February 8, ... Latin America, and North Africa and the Middle East.

A network has been launched to focus research on HIV/AIDS issues in the poorly studied Middle East and North Africa region. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through news & ...