People are seen at a hospital in Turkey in 2006. Twenty-seven newborn babies have died over the past 15 days at a state hospital in Ankara, doctors said Sunday, as a health workers' union blamed poor sanitary conditions for the deaths.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)

ANKARA (AFP) -
Twenty-seven newborn babies have died over the past 15 days at a [...]

Phumeza Matyeni, seen in 2004, prepares her pill-box with medication in Cape Town. Hitting the AIDS virus with drugs before it breaches a widely-recommended threshold of damage to the immune system can carry major benefits for patients.(AFP/File/Anna Zieminski)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
Hitting the AIDS virus with drugs before it breaches a widely-recommended threshold of damage to [...]

A Kenyan nurse, seen in 2001, gives medicines to AIDS patients with respiratory disease at the Homa Bay Hospital in western Kenya. A study published Sunday says a drug used to fight tuberculosis also hampers the effectiveness of an HIV treatment widely used in Africa, the world's worst AIDS-hit region.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)

PARIS (AFP) -
A drug used [...]

Keren Dunaway-Gonzalez, 12, shows a copy of the magazine she edits on HIV during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. The 12-year-old girl, HIV positive, who has become a prominent AIDS activist in her native Honduras, will share the stage with the Mexican president and the U.N. Secretary-General [...]

HIV carriers, new infections and AIDS deaths in 2007. One of the largest conferences in the 27-year history of AIDS was set to open in Mexico City with an expected turnout of 22,000 scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers.(AFP Graphic)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
One of the largest conferences in the 27-year history of AIDS was set to [...]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -
Drug abusers benefit just as much
from HIV drugs as people who are infected sexually or some
other way, Canadian researchers reported on Sunday.

Their finding, published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association and presented at an international AIDS
meeting in Mexico City, contradicts widespread worry that drug
abusers cannot stick to treatment.

“A large [...]

UPDATES to clarify chatter; Graphic shows a breakdown of new HIV infections for 2006; two sizes;

ATLANTA - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
The country had roughly [...]

HIV carriers, new infections and AIDS deaths in 2007. One of the largest conferences in the 27-year history of AIDS was set to open in Mexico City with an expected turnout of 22,000 scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers.(AFP Graphic)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
One of the largest conferences in the 27-year history of AIDS was set to [...]

A man creates an AIDS awareness ribbon. The head of the UN's children fund has raised concerns over the spread of HIV in Mozambique, saying it was partly fueled by immigrants from Zimbabwe who were selling their bodies to make ends meet.(AFP/File/Toru yamanaka)

MAPUTO (AFP) -
The head of the UN's children fund has raised concerns over [...]

HIV carriers, new infections and AIDS deaths in 2007. One of the largest conferences in the 27-year history of AIDS was set to open in Mexico City with an expected turnout of 22,000 scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers.(AFP Graphic)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
One of the largest conferences in the 27-year history of AIDS was set to [...]