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Digital weapon in the fight to reduce HIV infection
Indonesian health activists have developed the region's first mobile application, providing comprehensive information on HIV/AIDS to the public.
The app makes it easier for people to access medication and treatment in a confidential...
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SAfrica to launch large-scale HIV vaccine study
Researchers in South Africa will soon start conducting trials on a vaccine for HIV, following promising results in a previous trial held in Thailand.Dr Linda-Gail Bekker, the Deputy Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, said the...
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Harry warns against complacency in AIDS fight
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYDurban - 21 July 20161. Wide of the International Convention Centre in Durban where the International Aids Conference 2016 is taking place2. Various of Britain's...
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Senate Advances $1.1 Billion in Zika Funding
The Senate voted decisively on Tuesday in favor of a bipartisan $1.1 billion measure to combat the Zika virus this year and next, cutting back President Barack Obama's request but offering significantly more money to fight Zika than...
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Senate Advances $1.1 Billion in Zika Funding
The US Senate voted decisively on Tuesday in favour of a bipartisan 1.1 billion US dollar measure to combat the Zika virus this year and next, cutting back President Barack Obama's request but offering significantly more money to fight...
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Clinton: On Opioid Epidemic,'This is Personal'
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton participated in an opioid drug abuse discussion, where she shared a story of how a former intern died from an opioid overdose. Clinton was part of a substance abuse and addiction...
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Heroin addiction spirals in Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN DRUG ADDICTS SOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 4.47SHOTLIST:AP Television Kabul 31, December 20161. Drug addict...
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Overcoming opioids - special schools help teens stay clean
LEADINThe United States is experiencing an epidemic level of fatal overdoses among users of opioid painkillers and heroin. These overdoses killed more than 500 U.S. teenagers in 2015.With lives on the line, researchers say teens fighting...
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UN: more than half of people with HIV are on drugs
For the first time in the global AIDS epidemic that has spanned four decades and killed 35 million people, more than half of all those infected with HIV are on drugs to treat the virus, the United Nations said in a report released on...
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Trump Declares Opioid Health Emergency
President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency - a step that won't bring new dollars to fight a scourge that kills nearly 100 Americans a day but will expand access to medical services...
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Yemen Scales Up Fight Against Cholera
Collapsing on sidewalks and constantly vomiting, some Yemeni villagers barely make it to the tiny health center where doctors spread carton sheets in the backyard and use trees to hang bags of IV fluids for patients.
They...
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Victim's Parents Skeptical of Trump Opioid Plans
A New Hampshire couple who lost their daughter to an opioid overdose say they didn't see enough concrete plans presented during President Donald Trump's speech on how he will combat the epidemic.
Jim and Anne Marie...
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Trump signs legislation to battle opioid crisis
President Donald Trump is signing bipartisan legislation to confront the opioid crisis, the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history.
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First lady: Opioids 'taken hold of our country'
First lady Melania Trump described the scale of the opioid epidemic in the U.S. and says she is struck by how it has touched the lives of so many people.
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AIDS group wary of Trump pledge to end HIV by 2030
President Donald Trump is launching a campaign to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030, targeting areas where new infections happen and getting highly effective drugs to people at risk.
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AIDS group wary of Trump pledge to end HIV by 2030
President Donald Trump is launching a campaign to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030, targeting areas where new infections happen and getting highly effective drugs to people at risk.
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Trump signs legislation to battle opioid crisis
President Donald Trump has signed bipartisan legislation to confront the opioid crisis - the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history.
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US First Lady: Opioids 'taken hold of our country'
First lady Melania Trump has described the scale of the opioid epidemic in the U.S. and says she is struck by how it has touched the lives of so many people.
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Suicides and overdoses continue to lower U.S. life expectancy
Suicides and drug overdoses pushed up U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live.
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Top US doctor compares vaping to Russian roulette
One of America's most foremost experts in smoking-related diseases has joined calls for vaping products to be banned until they're fully tested by the government.
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Doctor explains vaping illness, potential cause
A Massachusetts doctor who has treated victims of the mystery vaping illness is describing the frustration and horrors of trying to help patients suffering from an unknown disease.
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COVID-19 vaccine testing in people gets underway
U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday -- leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.
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Pelosi outlines relief bill amid virus pandemic
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held a news conference Friday to outline the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.