Circumcision reduces risk of HIV Infection
Circumcision (Indonesian, khitan / sunat) Reduces incidence of H.I.V and Rates of Two S.T.D.s (herpes simplex virus Type 2 and human papilloma virus) Male circumcision, already shown to reduce the incidence of H.I.V. infection in men, also reduces transmission of [...]
AIDS Vaccine Possible Within 5 Years
Nobel medicine laureate sees progress on AIDS vaccine: STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Luc Montagnier, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Saturday stood by his view that a “therapeutic vaccine” for the AIDS pandemic could be created within four to [...]
World AIDS Day
In 1988, the General Assembly expressed deep concern at the pandemic proportions of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Noting that the World Health Organization had declared 1 December 1988 World AIDS Day, the Assembly stressed the importance of observing that [...]
Indonesia’s vast Papua in the grip of Asia’s worst AIDS crisis
Papua, a vast territory of tropical jungles and jagged mountain peaks on the western edge of New Guinea island, has seen an explosion in HIV/AIDS cases among a population that is the poorest in Indonesia. Its infection rate, estimated at [...]
