The number of people in Japan newly diagnosed with HIV and AIDS rose slightly in 2013, according to government figures.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says that in 2013, 484 individuals in Japan were newly diagnosed with AIDS.

HIV-Aids has taken its toll on Dalit settlement at Jogbudha VDC in the district.

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya state Network for Positive People (MSNP+) has revealed that there are a total number of 68 children in the State who are living with the HIV virus.

The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall.

Mortality rate is declining but not enough to meet Millennium Development Goal.

India accounts for the maximum number of maternal deaths in the world — 17 per cent or nearly 50,000 of the 2.89 lakh women who died as a result of complications due to pregnancy or childbearing in 2013. Nigeria is second with nearly 40,000, stated the UN report on maternal deaths released on Tuesday.

There are 226 HIV/AIDS infected people so far in Baglung district.
According to statistics of the District HIV/AIDS Coordination Committee, of them 99 are men and 97 are women.