Increased schooling across sub-Saharan Africa may be lowering new HIV infections among younger adults, according to sociologists, suggesting a shift in a decades-long trend where formal education is ...

As many as 70% of those living with HIV are expected to be 50 or older by 2030. They often need skilled nursing earlier than ...

More than 13.2 million children, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, have lost one or both parents to AIDS. The problems they face make the orphans from a Charles Dickens novel look pampered; in ...

Fulbright scholar Allen Palmer of the Brigham Young University Department of Communications concluded during his study in Namibia this year that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a result of miscommunication ...

The stigma and fear surrounding AIDS was so great in 1987 that about half the people who signed up for the inaugural benefit walk didn’t show up. “The people who walked were the brave ones,” said Ivo ...

Teachers in Zambia nearly went on strike a few years ago because they weren’t paid on time. Neither of the two government officials responsible for the payroll had reported to work as the salaries ...

President Bush meets with former South African President and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela Monday. The two men are to discuss a range of topics, including Mandela's efforts to promote universal ...

HIV/AIDs has quite the stigma and judgement attached to the diagnosis. Many uneducated people believe it's "a gay thing" or the result of junkies sharing needles ("a druggie thing"). The diagnosis has ...

A SMALL exhibition of visual aids to education was held in the Conference Room of the Board of Education on May 25 and 26. This was organized for the Conference of Ministers of Education of Allied ...

Having spent more years in the classroom is a powerful aid to recovery following a moderate to severe brain trauma, a new study finds. Researchers have long known that cognitive reserve – a level of ...