Asia-Pacific HIV cases in 2002 put at 1 million
One million people in the Asia-Pacific region became infected with the virus that causes AIDS this year while an estimated 500,000 died from the disease, the United Nations said
One million people in the Asia-Pacific region became infected with the virus that causes AIDS this year while an estimated 500,000 died from the disease, the United Nations said
Diary industry leaders in Australia are seeking government assistance to help stem a slump in milk production that threatens to shave as much as 1 billion Australian dollars from the country's annual
China, long criticised for ignoring a potential explosion of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, marked World AIDS Day on Dec 1 by announcing awareness and prevention
The U.S. Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed adding the beluga sturgeon, which now numbers in the thousands, to its list of endangered animals - a move that may curb a
About half the people now infected with the AIDS virus worldwide are women, according to epidemiologists at the United Nations. The announcement made as the organization issued its annual report on
The United Nations urged developing countries to invest in family planning to cut fertility rates and open a "demographic window" for economic
The Bush administration has proposed to give managers of the 155 national forests more discretion to approve logging and commercial activities with less evaluation of potential damage to the
Organizations which violate U.S. sanctions on Iraq cannot usually expect sympathy from the Bush administration. Nor can groups that collude with Russian mobsters or Colombian drug gangs. If the
A drug originally developed to combat breast cancer has instead proved effective against a parasitic disease that kills tens of thousands of people each year, many of them in northeastern India,
South Korea successfully launched its first liquid-fuel, three-stage rocket on Thursday in a crucial step in its bid to join the world's top aerospace nations, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute