Former President Bill Clinton is making a pledge to aid Kenya in the expansion of HIV/AIDS care and treatment.

Clinton says his foundation received grants worth $1.5 million to help train medical workers for rural areas in this East African nation for particular treatment of children and people in those areas who tend to receive the fewest services in poor countries

In a People Daily's report, the South African Health Department announced that between 6.29 million and 6.57 million people in the country had been infected with HIV/AIDS by last year.

The figure, attributed to the department's HIV and Syphilis Antenatal Sero-prevalence Survey, is far higher than the estimate of 4.5 million given by the official state statistics agency, Statistics SA

Italy has plans to launch a larger-scale human test of its AIDS vaccine in Africa, in the hope of having it ready for the market by 2011.

Barbara Ensoli of Italy's National Health Institute began an initial, small-scale trial involving 47 volunteers at four different clinics in Italy in 2003 and is aiming for results in 2006

Italy has plans to launch a larger-scale human test of its AIDS vaccine in Africa, in the hope of having it ready for the market by 2011.

Barbara Ensoli of Italy's National Health Institute began an initial, small-scale trial involving 47 volunteers at four different clinics in Italy in 2003 and is aiming for results in 2006

Italy has plans to launch a larger-scale human test of its AIDS vaccine in Africa, in the hope of having it ready for the market by 2011.

Barbara Ensoli of Italy's National Health Institute began an initial, small-scale trial involving 47 volunteers at four different clinics in Italy in 2003, and was aiming for results in 2006