CNN's Monita Rajpal speaks to designer Kenneth Cole who is raising awareness of AIDS.
It should be time to celebrate key milestones in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Recently, the United Nations announced that new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths fell to their lowest levels since the epidemic's peak. Today, 6.6 million people in low- and middle-income countries are on life-saving antiretroviral therapy, and people with HIV are living longer.
Eight years ago, I suffered a life-threatening complication after delivering my daughter. I was fortunate to have access to health care providers who managed the situation. The experience set me on a path to ensure that geography alone no longer determines whether or not childbirth is deadly for women and infants.
As an African man, I have always felt a sense of responsibility, not only toward my country, but to those living on the continent who face the daily challenges that poverty and disease bring.
As the global community commemorates World AIDS Day on Wednesday, international health organizations report both promising and sobering trends.
New HIV infections have decreased by almost 20 percent in the past decade, and AIDS-related deaths are down by about one-sixth in five years, according to a new United Nations report released Tuesday.
Pope Benedict XVI's possible shift on condom use is a "significant and positive step forward," the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS campaign said, welcoming the potentially historic remark.
Suksma Ratri separated from her husband after suffering ongoing domestic violence. But four years ago, the young mother from Indonesia found out her ex-husband had become extremely ill, and possibly had AIDS.
New HIV infections have fallen worldwide by 17 percent over the past eight years, a testament to prevention efforts, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.
Kanjii Mbugua storms the stage amid cheers as fans crane their necks to see the Kenyan musician.
Nigerian musician Femi Kuti has inherited his father's love of both music and political activism.
The young man's call echoed throughout the remote village in northern Nigeria -- the marriage ceremony was about to begin.
A 19-year-old prostitute working in an apartment that doubles as a brothel said she has up to eight clients a day.
The 2008 World Malaria Report finds that the global health agency overestimated rates of new malaria cases by about 100 million per year
Since she was 12 years old, Suzanne Africa Engo has been working to raise AIDS awareness.
The House voted Thursday to triple money to fight AIDS, malaria
and tuberculosis around the world, giving new life and new punch to
a program credited with saving or prolonging millions of lives in
Africa alone
She burst on the music scene as one-third of Destiny's Child, the highest-selling female group of all time.
Kelly Rowland, formerly of Destiny's Child, takes a stand on AIDS in Kenya. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
World AIDS Day is observed around the globe on December 1. Since the first World AIDS Day in 1988, governments, organizations and charities have worked to raise awareness of the global AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Use the information in this One-Sheet to provide students with an overview about HIV and AIDS.
CNN's Robyn Curnow reports on revised U.N. AIDS estimates that do little to comfort AIDS sufferers in South Africa.
The number of people around the world living with the virus that causes AIDS is actually nearly seven million fewer than previous estimates, according to the United Nations.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday told a U.N. special conference on HIV/AIDS that the global response to the disease was insufficient, saying "the epidemic continues to outrun our efforts to contain it."
Ludfine Anyango, a 34-year old woman from Kenya, was diagnosed HIV-positive eight years ago. She was married at the time. Her husband died from the disease. It was then she suspected that she too might be infected. She was.
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