by AfA | May 2, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
IT IS non-invasive and takes just 20 minutes to do at your neighbourhood GP — but the HIV rapid test kit made available from last year at more than 60 clinics has not had much impact on the rate of voluntary HIV screening.According to statistics released by the...
by AfA | May 9, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
Action for AIDS Singapore extends its multi-pronged efforts to address the challenges of the 40-year-old pandemic with a focus on ending inequalities and eradicating HIV-related stigma and discrimination The last two years have been challenging for communities across...
by AfA | Apr 30, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
More young patients as total number of new cases hits 422. NINE youth — six of them males — between the ages of 10 and 19 were diagnosed as HIV positive last year, the most ever in a single year according to records dating back to 1985. There were just two such cases...
by AfA | Apr 25, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
$1.8b in funding but teen pregnancy, STD rates unchanged WASHINGTON— Programmes teaching schoolchildren in the United States to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually-transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins. Health groups told...
by AfA | Apr 23, 2008 | Press Room, Archive
New onus on personal responsibility, power of containment for ministry TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg HIV took the top spot in the minds of MPs yesterday when Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan read the amended Infectious Diseases Bill, for the second time. Will an...
