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| A Chinese nurse prepares an
injection at a Shanghai hospital, 2002. China is planning to relax
regulations barring HIV/AIDS carriers from entering the country. The
move came in response to improved public understanding about the way the
virus spreads, health officials said, without specifying when the new
rules would come into effect.(AFP/File/Liu Jin) |
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| A Chinese
woman checks her mobile phone while passing an anti-AIDS poster in
Beijing November 28, 2004. Some viruses being used in experimental AIDS
vaccines may damage the immune system by exhausting key cells,
researchers reported on Thursday in a finding that may further cloud the
field of HIV vaccines. REUTERS/Claro Cortes |
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| A general view
shows the Merck facility in Rahway, New Jersey November 28, 2005.
Thousands of people who volunteered to test an experimental AIDS vaccine
that may have actually raised the risk of infection will be told if they
got the actual shot, researchers said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jeff
Zelevansky |
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| A volunteer
aiming to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS displays clean syringes at Baie
du Tombeau, Mauritius, November 12, 2007. REUTERS/Ed Harris |
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| Felicitas Masaa, a 55 year old
HIV-positive mother of five children, in her makeshift house in Kibera,
Africa's largest slum in Nairobi. The Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria has approved a grant of 132.3 million dollars (90.7 million
euros) to boost Kenya's anti-HIV/AIDS drive, the health ministry
announced Tuesday. Photo:Simon Maina/AFP |