The recipient of the largest amount of American birth control aid is Bangladesh, a Muslim country that languishes among the world's sickest, poorest and most populous. Despite a decision by U.S.

Stirring a furor among doctors and researchers who treat patients infected with the virus that causes AIDS, government officials in Johannesburg have been questioning the safety of the standard

Needle sharing among intravenous drug users has set off an explosive increase in HIV infections, with the number of new cases reported in Moscow so far this year more than four times greater than in

AIDS has long been considered primarily a men's disease, bu the United Nations has now reported for the first time that more more women than men are infected with the AIDS virus in Africa, the site

With big industrial nations struggling to agree on a framework for the next round of talks on liberalizing world trade, developing countries, which often balked at such efforts in the past, are

Seeking to win the active support of environmental groups that have so far failed to muster much enthusiasm for his presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore has announced that President Bill

The European food safety commissioner, David Byrne, said Tuesday that the European Commission had decided to start legal action against France over its refusal to lift a ban on British beef in

With Haiti and Jamaica bracing for a hurricane, the storm grew stronger Monday as it shifted eastward and could threaten Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin

A Japanese rocket carrying a satellite failed to reach orbit and was deliberately destroyed Monday, a spokesman for the National Space Development Agency of Japan

The quake was the most severe to strike northwestern Turkey since the major shock that tore through the region on Aug. 17, killing more than 20,000 people. This one measured a powerful 7.2 on the