The advent of AIDS (acquired immunity deficiency syndrome) in early 1981 surprised the scientific community, as many researchers at that time viewed the world to be on the brink of eliminating infectious disease. AIDS, an infectious disease syndrome...

Asia contains 60 percent of the world's population and almost 20 percent of the adults with HIV infections—some 6 million of the estimated 34.4 million worldwide at the end of the twentieth century. But the epidemic is relatively new to the...

The advent of AIDS (acquired immunity deficiency syndrome) in early 1981 stunned the scientific community, as many researchers at that time viewed the world to be on the brink of eliminating infectious disease. AIDS, an infectious disease that...

The advent of AIDS (acquired immunity deficiency syndrome) in early 1981 stunned the scientific community, as many researchers at that time viewed the world to be on the brink of eliminating infectious disease. AIDS, an infectious disease syndrome that...

rect 0 0 14 14 This is a featured article. Click here for more information. desc none Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection...

AIDS, African wars discussed in Mbeki meeting with Clinton By SONYA ROSS Associated Press Tuesday, May 23, 2000 Washington -- President Clinton met Monday with South African President Thabo Mbeki to pursue ways to help South Africa end its long-running...

In our view Sometimes the urge to do good just goes a bit too far. One case in point may be a recently announced plan by a group of countries, led by France, to impose a tax on airline tickets to raise...

Senate Democrats are cutting President Bush's marquee foreign aid program to help emerging democracies and funneling more money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world.The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday reduced Bush' $3 billion request for the Millennium Challenge Corporation to $1.2 billion....

One of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson's top organizers in rural Nevada resigned Thursday after the campaign learned he had worked for a brothel and was wanted on a felony arrest warrant in California."We did not know about all of this," Richardson spokesman Josh McNeil...

In the following essay, Denneny views AIDS as a catastrophic event of central importance to both gay literature and social history.

In the following essay, Dewey examines three novels that he considers exemplary literary representations of the realities surrounding AIDS.

In the following essay, Jones discusses three novels by gay writers to illustrate how the use of plague as a metaphor for AIDS stigmatizes the victims of the disease.

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AIDS is considered one of the highest health threats in the world today. Depending on where one stands relative to the poverty line, where one lives and what one's sexual orientation is, this threat is greater or lesser. Though where AIDS came from, the exact patient zero2, and many other questions about this virus's origin are still unanswered, the risk is blatantly obvious. The only way to protect one self is to be aware of the threat and to habitually use practices which lessen the risk of infection. The

Explores the disease AIDS. Describes how it is spread and how it can be prevented. Examines current research on the disease and details the results of a survey of young people.

Describes how a disparity in funding and research, religious beliefs, and politics plays a role in the number of people affected by HIV/AIDS in developed and developing countries.