HIV/Aids

Anti-HIV drug effort boosts life expectancy in South Africa

24 Feb 2013

An intensive campaign to combat HIV/Aids with costly antiretroviral drugs in rural South Africa has increased life expectancy by more than 11 years and significantly reduced the risk of infection...

A measurement of success in helping the world's poor

7 Feb 2013

The lives of the world's poorest people have improved more rapidly in the past 15 years than ever before, and I am optimistic that we will do even better in the next 15 years. After all, human...

Short Science, January 6, 2013

6 Jan 2013

The frequency and volatility of El Nino, a weather pattern that hammers the tropical Pacific Ocean every five years or so, does not seem linked to climate change, US research shows.

Three medical leaps that could transform disease treatments

6 Jan 2013

More than once last year, researchers described leaps in medical science that were so breathtaking, and held so much potential for patients, that they immediately joined the list of fields to...

Xi's wife Peng Liyuan supports HIV kids

4 Dec 2012

A day after Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping visited a community clinic treating HIV/Aids patients in Beijing, his wife, Peng Liyuan, held hands with children infected with the virus...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Letters to the Editor, December 4, 2012

A full-page advert from the manufacturers of formula milk states we should "Help Mothers Make the Right Choice" (November 23) by allowing formula companies to continue promoting their products in...

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Li Keqiang's meeting with NGOs injects new life into HIV/Aids fight

In the week leading up to yesterday's World Aids Day, the mainland's NGO community was abuzz over a meeting that premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang called with representatives from grass-roots HIV/Aids...

Volunteer doctors give hope to mainland HIV/Aids patients

A group of doctors in Nanjing has volunteered to provide medical care to HIV/Aids patients who are shunned by mainland hospitals when awaiting surgery.

Li Keqiang reaches out to help Aids victims

Premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang's overtures to non-governmental organisations working in the field of HIV/Aids prevention and treatment resonate with the theme for World Aids Day today: "Working...

World AIDS Day comes early this year for hardened Henan activists

With World AIDS Day 2012 falling on a Saturday, a second protest is set to take place today say activists who see it as the last chance to gain attention until this same time next year.

HEALTH

Aids patients march through Beijing

More than 100 HIV/Aids patients from Henan, where future premier Li Keqiang held senior government or Communist Party posts for six years, took to the streets of Beijing yesterday, calling on the...