India is home to the third-largest number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the world and, as in the U.S. and many African nations, the rate of infection among women continues to rise faster than that among men.

Poverty and the movement of people displaced by war have contributed to an increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Sudan, United Nations and Sudanese health officials said.

Medical circumcision of adult men continues to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV through heterosexual intercourse for at least 3.5 years.

Today President George W. Bush is expected to sign into law the Tom Lantos & Henry J. Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008, a presidential initiative to combat the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including a provision ending the ban on HIV-positive travelers and immigrants.

Kenya’s HIV and Aids prevalence rate has increased to nearly eight per cent, according to a new study to be released Tuesday

Faced with a "steady increase" in injection drug use that is cited as the leading cause of the spread of HIV/AIDS in Russia, a meeting of physicians and specialists was held in the country in February to discuss the use of methadone in treating injection drug users, which number between three million and six million in Russia.

The flourishing tourism industry in Zanzibar is not contributing to the spread of HIV on the archipelago.

Researchers found that sexual behavior counseling during drug addiction treatment should be considered an important component among Russian substance-dependent individuals, in order to decrease risky sexual behavior in the HIV at-risk population.