China has approved importing a new drug for HIV patients.

China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) on Friday announced the country's approval of importation of a new drug, which was developed by United States-based pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories to treat patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Thailand will build a pharmaceutical plant that will produce drugs to fight Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, avian influenza, and manufacture other emergency medicines.

India will help Thailand build the plant in 18 months and at a cost of more than $27 million

New York, NY (AHN)-According to researchers in the U.S. and South Africa, many women in the United States who are injection drug users and are also infected with HIV, do not routinely use condoms with their uninfected regular partners or with casual sex partners.

Lead investigator Dr. Mary H. Latka tells Reuters Health, "Forty percent of the HIV-positive women in our sample were having sex with at-risk male partners, and more than half of the time, condoms were not used consistently