HIV rates among American blacks are higher than those in impoverished nations that are part of a $15 billion AIDs programs from the United States, and nearly equal to those of African nations, a new report said on Tuesday.

"More Black Americans are infected with HIV than the total populations of people living with HIV in seven of the 15 countries served by PEPFAR [President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief]," Black AIDS Institute chief executive Phill Wilson said in a statement

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed two cases of cattle deaths from anthrax this week in separate farms in Saskatchewan province. The disease poses no risk to humans.

Seven bison in a herd in Paddockwood north of Prince Albert and a cow near Saskatoon tested positive of the disease. The CFIA has quarantined the affected areas to prevent the spread of the disease

A human trial of a large-scale experimental AIDS vaccine has been cancelled following advice by a top scientist that it was unlikely to give useful results, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said Thursday.

The vaccine trial, similar to a failed Merck and Co. product, was developed by the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. In a study called PAVE 100, the agency planned to include 2,400 men in the United States

A 23-year-old man from New Delhi who was admitted to an Indian hospital after a five-feet-long iron rod went through his chest has survived the accident.

Calling it the "rarest of the rare surgeries," doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) saved the life of a young executive, Supratim Dutta, whose chest, lungs, stomach and liver were pierced by an iron bar

A gene which apparently evolved to protect people of African descent from malaria increases their chances of getting HIV infection by 40 percent, a new study finds.

The discovery not only marks the first genetic risk factor for HIV found only in people of African descent but also debunks the myth that people in sub-Saharan Africa were more likely to get HIV because of differences in their sexual behaviour, researchers added