A British painter and decorator-turned-inventor has spoken of his pride as his one-use syringe that has been 30 years in the making has been endorsed by the World Health Organisation.

Five key groups, including gay men, prostitutes, and prisoners, have stubbornly high rates of HIV that are threatening progress in the global Aids battle, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

Thirty years into the Aids epidemic, a cure remains elusive but a growing arsenal of drugs could someday help end new infections, the World Health Organisation’s HIV/Aids chief says.

HOMOSEXUAL men and transgender people should get equal access to HIV/AIDS programmes under the World Health Organisation’s first guidelines aimed at ending the stigma that denies care to many, the UN agency said yesterday.