All Stories: HIV/AIDS

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause of death among Africans aged between 10 and 19, UNICEF chief Anthony Lake said Monday at the start of a major international conference on the virus.

A former girlfriend of Charlie Sheen on Thursday sued the actor for assault, negligence and emotional distress, saying they had intercourse at least five times before he revealed he was HIV-positive.

Health care is collapsing after nine months of conflict in eastern Ukraine, where a lack of medicines and vaccines puts people at growing risk from diseases such as polio, measles and tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization.

BEIJING: The World Health Organization issued a call to action to China Monday over HIV/AIDS as government figures said nearly half a million people are living with the disease or its precursor, with hundreds of thousands more thought to be undiagnosed.

LONDON: Could Pfizer acquire GlaxoSmithKline as a "plan B" after failing to land AstraZeneca? It would be a stretch but not totally impossible, according to analysts at Berenberg Bank.