Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

AIDS is caused by the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which damages the body’s defense system. People infected with HIV usually live for years without any signs of the disease. They may look and feel healthy, but they can still pass on the virus to others. HIV is a retrovirus with two primary types: HIV-1 and [...]

HIV/AIDS Discrimination in India

India is one of the 2nd largest populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that more or less 7 million Indians are currently living with HIV. HIV emerged later in India than it did in many other countries. Infection rates soared throughout the 1990s, and today the [...]

HIV/AIDS in Asia

This pandemic has now taken hold of many countries in Asia. There are more than 10 million people got infected HIV in Asia now. In 2003, 0.5 million people died due to this disease in this region and more than one million people were added as newly infected. The highest number of HIV positive now [...]