National AIDS Resource Center

18 November 2011 (AllAfrica) - The Commonwealth Secretariat will host two events at the 16th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), which takes place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 4 to 8 December 2011.Under the conference theme 'Own, Scale-Up and Sustain', the Secretariat will host a session on how health services can be integrated to deal with the dual disease burden of HIV/AIDS and non-communicable…

11 November 2011 - ADDIS ABABA – ICASA 2011 awarded 800 local and international scholarships, and more than 330 sponsorships locally. The 800 scholarships were targeted to all scholarship categories, of which some are fully funded, while others are partially funded. In a similar development, more than 330 sponsorships were awarded to local participants from different organizations to take part and share experiences in the conference. The recipients of the…

17 November 2011 (MNT) - Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and in commemoration of the occasion, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, headquartered at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, debunks the top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research. Myth No. 1: HIV vaccines can give people HIV. HIV vaccines do not contain HIV and therefore a person cannot get HIV from the HIV vaccine. Some vaccines, like those for typhoid…