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HIV Leads to "Irreversible Poverty," UN Says People in Asia with HIV are likely to end up in “irreversible poverty ” because of the costs associated with living with the disease, a report from the United Nations said Thursday. As reported by AFP, healthcare costs, loss of employment and ...

Ban on food stamps leads to hunger, HIV risk among former drug felons : Convicted drug offenders who are denied government food benefits upon release from prison are at greater risk of engaging in dangerous, sexual risk behaviors in order to obtain food, Yale researchers have found. Their pilot study appears in the journal ...

Interview: Lack Of Data On Gay Men Impedes HIV Fight In Central Asia : It's been nearly two years since 26-year-old Tahmina Haidar found out she was infected with HIV , the virus that leads to AIDS. After losing her husband and child to AIDS-related illnesses and leaving her home for the capital, she talks to RFE/RL about ...

Without treatment, HIV can leads to AIDS - which results in a severely ... the start of LGBTQ+ History Month and National HIV Testing Week in the UK. View article...

HIV Afflicted Children Should Receive Special Dental Care, Suggest Experts HIV is a lentivirus (slowly-replicating retrovirus) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), an infectious disease in which progressive failure of the human immune system leads to life-threatening opportunistic infections and/or cancer.

A new gene was identified for preventing HIV The new gene that could prevent HIV virus was discovered for the first time by a team of researchers from King`s College London. This virus leads to AIDS.

Miami leads America's top ten cities with highest rates of HIV - Miami, according to the Centers for Disease Control, has the highest rate of HIV in America. Reported cases shot up 23 percent in 2015, and the number of people with cases of infection has surprassed 52,000. Miami’s HIV rates may be high due its reputation as a ‘party city,’ according to Get Tested.

Homa Bay leads with 19.6 per cent in HIV infection in the country. The county has also been rated the second in teenage pregnancies after Narok. View article...