China has more than halved its tuberculosis (TB) prevalence, with rates falling from 170 to 59 per 100,000 population, figures suggest.

After being bed-ridden for a month, Dilip Thapa, an HIV patient, died last week in Banepa. He was 43.

Thapa had contracted HIV virus through a syringe 17 years ago.

Days after eleven-year-old Ashima Sharma, a student of Moti Ram Sharma School, died of typhoid on February 3, 40 other cases have been reported so far from her housing society.

Despite all efforts, HIV/AIDS continues to be a word that generates more anxiety than awareness.

In its first global analysis for 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says that Pakistan is the only polio-endemic country which reported more polio cases last year than in 2012.

KARACHI: Eight hundred fresh cases of HIV have been registered in the current year in Sindh, said Dr Mohammad Ahmed Kazi, Provincial Manager for Sindh AIDS Control Programme (SACP) on Wednesday.

Ten out of the 1,460 people whose blood samples were collected for tests tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS .

At least 20 people in one village in Madagascar have died in an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

In 2012, the new HIV infections were 338 while the number of patients with AIDS was 103. Some 65 patients died of AIDS last year.