DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan.

LUSAKA, Zambia, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- During a visit to the George Urban Health Center in Lusaka today, President George W. Bush, Mrs.

A collection of nine new articles to be published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), highlights how scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa can help prevent HIV not only at individual but also at community and population level as well as lead to substantial cost savings for countries due to averted treatment and care costs.

According to a new report from UNAIDS, the number of AIDS-related deaths has dropped to 1.8 million a year from 2.2 million in the mid-2000s.

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Sept.