Tracking Some Of The World’s Most Deadly Outbreaks

China’s Second Attempt at creating an HIV/AIDS vaccine

China has been interested in creating an AIDS vaccine for 16 years. The country didn’t own intellectual property rights to the vaccine until 2006. This is the second vaccine that the country has entered into phase one testing. The first phase of testing focuses on safety.
It has been given to 36 volunteers. I can’t […]

Sixty-Eight Percent of HIV/AIDS Infections Live in One Place

First of all, the United Nations program on HIV and AIDS recently released recalculated numbers on the AIDS epidemic. The new numbers are down more then 6 million then previously thought. The revised number is an estimated 33.2 million people are currently living with HIV.
The majority of these infections are in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 68% […]

World Aids Day

Aids is easy to forget about, especially living in countries were the disease isn’t exactly commonplace. However, the facts about one of the most destructive epidemics in human history are astounding.
Aids has killed an estimated 25 million people and another 40 million are currently infected. The disease infests countries that don’t have the […]

Increased Aids/HIV infections in China

During a press conference Health Minister Chen Zhu announced that China estimates nearly 700,000 will be infected with HIV or aids by the end of the year. This is an increase of 50,000 compared to the end of last year.
According to VOA News 45 percent of the infections will come from heterosexual transmission, […]