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After sub-Saharan Africa, Asia is now the world's most HIV/AIDS-affected region, with an estimated 7.2 million cumulative HIV infections by 2000. One-fifth of Asia's infections occurred in 1999 alone, more than half of these in Asians under the age of 25.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that in spite of improved efforts to control air pollution, pollution by microscopic particles continues to be associated with adverse health effects on the public-at-large.

Researchers have discovered they can greatly reduce the numbers of parasites in mosquito salivary glands if they neutralize a protein in the salivary glands of the female Anopheles gambiae mosquito.

A new study from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health shows that cigarette smoking increases a person's risk of using illegal drugs, which will eventually lead to a slew of entirely new consequences.