AIDS

Veteran BBC TV and radio presenter Ray Gosling was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday after confessing he killed an ex-lover suffering from AIDS.

About 4.7 million people in Thailand are thought to be living with HIV, but the country has won praise for its attempts to tackle the spread of the virus. Education and increasing access to anti-retroviral drugs are the mainstay of the Thai campaign, while initial optimism over a supposedly "breakthrough" HIV vaccine has waned. Al Jazeera's Aela Callan reports from Bangkok.

Thai health authorities are introducing an official penis measuring device with the aim of advising condom users which size to wear for comfort and protection against sexual diseases.

The first Aids vaccine to show an encouraging result in clinical trials is only modestly effective and did not protect those at highest risk of HIV, it emerged today, as US and Thai researchers revealed their full results in Paris.

A Phase III clinical trial involving more than 16,000 adult volunteers in Thailand has demonstrated that an investigational HIV vaccine regimen was safe and modestly effective in preventing HIV infection. According to final results released by the trial sponsor, the U.S. Army Surgeon General, the prime boost combination of ALVAC(R)( )HIV and AIDSVAX(R) B/E( )lowered the rate of HIV infection by 31.2% compared with placebo.