HONOLULU - Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.
Gov. Linda Lingle’s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) -
Women must be more involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a disease increasingly being spread through sex, and men must also be encouraged to respect women more, a senior U.N. official said Friday.

Nafis Sadik, U.N. special envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region, told a poverty alleviation conference in Beijing that lack of [...]

HONG KONG (Reuters) -
Up to a third of gay and bisexual men in Hong Kong may be infected with HIV by 2020 if prevention programs to reduce new infections and promote safe sex fail to work, experts warned.

HIV is primarily passed from person to person in Hong Kong through sex. The number of gay and [...]

File picture shows a young Russian drug addict injecting himself as his friends wait their turn. Children who try drugs or alcohol before age 15 run a greater risk of being substance-dependent as adults, contracting sexually transmitted diseases, dropping out of school or being convicted of a crime, a study showed.(AFP/File/Dima Korotayev)

WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Children who [...]

Mentally ill Afghan men in a hospital of Jalalabad. In a country destroyed by three decades of conflict, about two million people suffer mental illness, according to the World Health Organisation(AFP/Massoud Hossaini)

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) -
The mentally ill in Afghanistan, a country destroyed by three decades of conflict, have been counted at about two million, according [...]