But he went on to underscore the decision to be tested for HIV remained a voluntary and confidential, individual choice.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

"Now the HIV counseling and testing campaign that the president launched on the 25th of April, is designed to do multiple things."

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

The rest may not even know they are infected. Hind Khatib is a regional director of the U.N.Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS or UNAIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Clinical trial results for CAPRISA 004, which contains HIV fighting drugs, will be released on July 20.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

The paper on early HIV treatment is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

A combination vaccine, using strains of HIV common in Thailand,was tested on Thai men and women aged 18 to 30 years old, who were HIV-negative.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

For years,the lack of reliable data on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa led regional governments to believe they had somehow managed to escape the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

But a new United Nations report shows that numbers are on the rise: more than 400,000 people are currently living with HIV across the Middle East and North Africa region,or MENA.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"I think the realistic aspect is that particularly for people who are HIV infected, you cannot right now, with resources that are available, get everyone who needs to be on therapy in the developing world,on therapy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.17

Many of them are emerging from conflicts. And,sub-Saharan Africa in particular, especially in Eastern and Southern Africa are facing major problems of HIV, which has had a huge impact on especially child mortality, life expectancy in general.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"Just imagine,a severe pandemic coming at such a fragile time in a world where there are many people suffering from chronic diseases like heart disease, lung disease,including asthma, cancers,with many more people suffering from HIV, obesity and the list goes on,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

So we thought that it's timely, especially that this year, there was a great effort by UNAIDS invested in the region to ensure that all the countries will actually report and live up to their commitments made to the 2001 Declaration in the U.N.General Assembly Special Session on HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

A recent progress report on HIV/AIDS says Botswana is one of the nine Southern African countries that continue to bear the global burden of HIV/AIDS, with each country having an adult prevalence of more than 10 percent. The government's national AIDS control program has boosted testing,prevention and treatment efforts.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10