President Obama has lifted a 22-year-old ban prohibiting HIV positive foreigners from entering the U.S.

Pope Benedict says condoms are not the answer to Africa's AIDS problem: "It (AIDS) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem." At least 25 million Africans have died from AIDS in the last 30 years.

Chilean health officials are being criticized for failing to notify 2,000 patients that they are HIV positive.

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The number of New York City residents who contracted the HIV virus in 2006 is three times higher than the national average, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Illegal Immigrants have a higher risk of being infected with AIDS, according to a report by the California HIV/AIDS Research Program at the University of California. The report concludes that undocumented Mexican men are more likely to take drugs, sell their bodies for sex and engage in unprotected sex with prostitutes.

The number of Americans infected with AIDS is 40 percent higher than originally reported by the U.S. government, according to the most recent estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The rate of Latino immigrants infected with HIV and AIDS is on the rise. According to federal officials, Latinos represented 22 percent of new HIV and AIDS cases in the U.S, despite making up only 14 percent of the U.S. population. Frank Galvan of the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science: "You combine the economic pressures, loneliness and immigration worries, and it pushes these individuals to be a hidden population."

The Latino Commission on AIDS announced that Kat DeLuna will take over for actor Gael Garcia Bernál as the organization's international ambassador.

Saturday, December 1 is World AIDS Day. There are an estimated 33 million people infected with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Check out "After the Party," a webisode from The National Institute on Drug Abuse about the link between drug use and HIV.