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MADISON (WKOW) -- A tapestry detailing the struggles of those who lived and died with HIV and AIDS will be on display later this week for the public to view.

On this World AIDS Day, there was a dramatic announcement from South Africa, which has the most HIV cases of any country -- and has spent years turning its back on the best science and drugs for the disease.

HIV and AIDS- 33 million people live with it across the world. On World AIDS day, groups in mid-Michigan did their part to call attention to the once tabooed disease.

GENEVA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) marked World AIDS Day here Tuesday with a call for universal access to medicines.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday led senior United Nations officials in marking World AIDS Day by calling for an urgent end to discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS to help combat the spread of ...

The president of South Africa, the country with the highest number of people infected with AIDS worldwide, pledged today his country will treat all HIV-positive babies and will increase overall testing and treatment for the ...

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Declining infection rates for swine flu and a greater supply of vaccine have opened a “window of opportunity” to protect people against the illness, said the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

A group of private health insurers has agreed to foot the bill for the H1N1 vaccination clinics that are going on at public health clinics around the state.

By KSPR News The health department continues its focus on vaccinating people at highest risk for developing H1N1 and its complications as thousands more doses of vaccine arrive in the county.

Beginning Tuesday, most pharmacies in Deschutes County are distributing H1N1 vaccine to people who are eligible. A local clinic is scheduled as early as Wednesday.