The International Labor Organization (ILO) issued a report Monday stating an estimated 3,500 people, the majority being working class, are living with HIV/AIDS.

According to the report, the majority of Sri Lankans living with the virus that causes AIDS are between the ages of 30-39 and are working class citizens

Early testing has proven so successful at helping prevent the spread of AIDS in babies, that a federal panel is recommending that all pregnant women, not just those at high risk, be screened for the virus.

In 1996, the U.S. Preventine Services Task Force said there was not enough evidence to prove that screening all pregnant women was beneficial

Reuters reports one in four new infections occurs in Asia, home to more than half the world's people, and 1,500 in the region die from the disease each day.

Officials and aid workers said the risk of AIDS in areas struck by the tsunami had increased due to the breakdown in basic services and health-care systems, which left many people without access to condoms

The World Heath Organization's (WHO) plan to get three million people in the poorest parts of the world onto anti-AIDS drugs by 2005, has reportedly fallen short.

According to a WHO report, only one million people are currently receiving life saving AIDS treatments, leaving the organization almost certain that they will not be able to meet their goal

An experimental AIDS vaccine developed at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, is giving hope to scientists as it shows signs of protecting patients' weakened immune system from infections.

The vaccine was developed by Dr. Rivka Aboulafia-Lapid and colleagues at Hadassah, along with scientists at Kaplan Medical Center and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and is currently undergoing clinical trials