Few unmarried parents who are HIV-positive have made legally documented arrangements for who would care for their children if the parents die, according to a survey by the RAND Corporation issued today.

The first large-scale computer screenings of Chinese herbs -- commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine -- has revealed a wide variety of compounds with potential for use in treating HIV/AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, arthritis and other diseases, according to scientists in London.

The World Food Program (WFP) warns it will be forced to slash food aid to hundreds of thousands of hungry Cambodians next month if it does not receive new donations soon. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva WFP says those who will lose out include young children and HIV/AIDS and TB patients.

A new report by the U.N. Children's Fund finds signs of progress in meeting the needs of children affected by HIV/AIDS more than a year after a global campaign was launched to focus attention on the plight of AIDS-affected children. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva.

This year, DaimlerChrysler will integrate education about the immune deficiency illness HIV/AIDS on a general basis into the vocational training of a total of 8,200 trainees in German

Even as the world commemorated World Aids Day this month, scholars are still coming to grips with the complex politics that have characterized the response of states and societies across the world to the HIV/AIDS pandemic since 1981.

Exchanges among African countries of experiences on the two-year old Treatment Acceleration Project (TAP) was at the pinnacle of the World Bank's two-week long activities in observance of HIV and AIDS, which started on November 27 and will conclude tomorrow, December 7.

HIV Positive Women Will Receive Needed Outfits from Clothing Boutique and Will Assemble AIDS Caregiver Kits for International Distribution.

More than four million extra health workers and access to vital medicines crucial to combating global crisis.

To address the worsening HIV & AIDS epidemic, Oxfam is calling on governments to pay $25 billion per year for 4.2 million extra health workers and ensure that affordable lifesaving medicines are made available to all who need them.

Findings from one of the largest HIV/AIDS therapy studies conducted to date show that a specific strategy of interrupting antiretroviral therapy more than doubles the risk of AIDS or death from any cause.