New Delhi, Aug 17 : It is difficult to maintain a registry on sex workers as they move from one place to another but the government has been able to reach out to them and HIV infection among them has gone down, the Rajya Sabha was told Wednesday.

In a written reply to the upper house, Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi said despite not maintaining a registry, they have been able to reach out to the community.

Harare, July 22 : An unprecedented circumcision campaign covering 13 countries in East and Southern Africa is being unfolded in a bid to break the epidemic of AIDS that is wreaking havoc with the people and economies in the region.

From Kenya to South Africa, hospitals and tented clinics in the bush offering free circumcision are almost in danger of being overwhelmed by men, bringing with them boys and infants.

London, Feb 16: In the biggest clinical trial to date, a group of scientists have found gene therapy to be a safe and beneficial option for HIV patients.

Ronald Mitsuyasu, of the University of California, Los Angeles, headed the trial for testing gene therapy against HIV.

"To our knowledge, our study was the first randomised, controlled study performed with gene therapy in HIV," New Scientist magazine quoted him as saying.

Washington, Feb 10: In the first human clinical trial of its kind, a vaginal gel intended to prevent HIV infection in women has shown promise in fighting against the infection.

Called PRO 2000 (Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Lexington, Mass.), the microbicide gel was found to be safe and approximately 30 percent effective.

Washington, Jan 23 : Taking a major step in the research on HIV/AIDS, scientists have uncovered why prior infection by other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) make individuals more susceptible to HIV infection.

Researchers have shown that HIV faces a genetic "bottleneck" when the virus is transmitted heterosexually from one person to another, by way of the genital mucosa.

Washington, Jan 13: An international team of researchers has identified a potentially new weapon in battle against HIV infection "C blood types.

Researchers from Canadian Blood Services, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Lund University in Sweden have discovered that certain blood types are more predisposed to contracting HIV, while others are more effective at fending it off.

Kuala Lumpur - Couples in Malaysia will be required to undergo mandatory screening for HIV infection before they can get married, a news report said Thursday.

"Next year, we will make it mandatory for all states to impose the HIV screening as part of the pre-marital course," Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak told a press conference after chairing a meeting of the cabinet's AIDS committee on Thursday.

Washington, Dec 18: Circumcision significantly reduces the risk of HIV infection in heterosexual men, says a new U. S. study.

The findings complement those of recently reported clinical trials in Africa, where interventional use of adult male circumcision similarly reduced the risk of HIV infection in heterosexual men.

Washington, December 6 : With German doctors curing an AIDS patient using bone marrow transplant, American researchers have been encouraged to explore stem cell approaches to treat the disease.

"The case in Germany was a natural gene-therapy experiment," said Gerhard Bauer, a UC Davis stem cell researcher.

Patna, Dec. 1:Students in Bihar capital Patna city on Monday took out rally to mark World AIDS Day, and called for generating more awareness to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.

Holding banners and placards on AIDS awareness, college students said they were doing their bit to check the spread of the disease in the country.