As spread of disease slows, stigma remains Selah Hennessy | London 01 December 2009 Winnie Sseruma, one of nearly 80,000 people in Britain who are HIV positive, raises awareness about HIV and AIDS through her work at the UK-based Christian Aid charit...
South Africa's president says his government will expand testing and treatment for the HIV/AIDS virus that afflicts an estimated 5.7 million people in his country. Scott Bobb | Johannesburg 01 December 2009 South African President Jacob Zuma, second...
Kenyan government says the percentage of people contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been cut almost in half from 14 percent of the population in 2000 to 7.1 percent in 2007 Alisha Ryu | Nairobi 01 December 2009 A Kenyan Turkana woman in...
Advances in HIV/AIDS research unprecedented, but vaccine remains elusive. Art Chimes | Washington, D.C. 01 December 2009 We need to move out of the emergency mode, the hand-to-mouth approach to AIDS, which has characterized the last decade. Robert He...
Prostitutes demanding clients wear condoms Linda Blake | Bangalore 01 December 2009 An estimated 15 percent of female prostitutes in Southern India are HIV-infected No condoms. No sex has become a mantra for around 4,500 sex workers operating near In...
The government-owned company, Dubai World, has reassured investors abroad by revealing details of its restructuring plans, nearly a week after hinting it may not have enough money to repay its debts. Phillip Wellman | Dubai 01 December 2009 Watch: Re...
Environmental activists, climate experts say burning of fossil fuels may account for 20 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions Brian Padden | Sumatra, Indonesia 01 December 2009 A 2008 file photo shows Fire near Bukit Tiga Puluh natural fore...
Faiza Elmasry | Washington 01 December 2009 British scholar Karen Armstrong says the Charter for Compassion is a grassroots movement Two decades of studying the world's major religions and writing more than 20 books about them led British scholar Kar...
Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 01 December 2009 This book connects many stories and sayings that we use in everyday life with their biblical antecedents The Hebrew and Christian bibles are quoted thousands of times a day across America. Not just by m...
Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 01 December 2009 Author Alia Malek says she wrote A Country Called Amreeka to put a human face on the Arab-American community, and to counter the public fear and misunderstanding fueled by the 9/11 terrorist attack...
