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UN Outlines 'Treatment 2.0' to Prevent AIDS Deaths

UNITED NATIONS (July 13) -- The United Nations' AIDS agency today pushed for a simplified HIV treatment plan, called Treatment 2.0, which it says could prevent 10 million AIDS-related deaths by 2025. A report released in Geneva by UNAIDS revealed that HIV prevalence among young people has declined by more than 25 percent...

Circumcision Gains Ground as Anti-AIDS Measure

(Dec. 14) -- In the past year, 60,000 men have been circumcised in a single province in Kenya, raising hopes that an effective and still underutilized tool for fighting AIDS could gain acceptance across sub-Saharan Africa, where 22.4 million people are HIV-positive. Michael Stalker, deputy director of the Male...

World AIDS Day Provides a Reminder: A Lot of Work Remains

Americans found many ways to commemorate World AIDS Day on Tuesday. Prayer vigils in Las Vegas. Free rapid-result testing in Iowa. Even a carnival ring toss in New Mexico. But the atmosphere was hardly festive. The disease may have evolved from a quick death sentence to an illness that can be managed. Yet AIDS experts...