A study by a bi-national team of global health researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, examining HIV…

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have devised a laboratory test for predicting whether microbicides against HIV are safe for human use. The…

New research hints that the social and sexual networks of Black gay men, constrained by the preferences and attitudes of non-Black gay men, may explain the risk…

A Web-based game could help educate teenagers with HIV infection on how to avoid transmitting the virus, a pilot study suggests.

The game, dubbed +CLICK (Positive Click), allows users to navigate through…

Black gay men have less choice when it comes to sexual partners than other groups and, as a result, their sexual networks are closely knit. These tightly interconnected…

Using methods of reproductive technology, pregnancy can be safely achieved in HIV serodiscordant couples - couples in which one member is HIV-positive and the other is not, according to findings from…

An analysis of data from 34 states suggests that many people still do not undergo HIV testing until late into the course of infection, when treatments may have limited effectiveness.

A previously healthy teenager shows up at the doctor’s office with a sore throat, fever, aches and general malaise. Routine blood tests are normal, an HIV test comes…

Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have developed a game for HIV-positive youth, +CLICK, designed to reduce secondary transmission of the virus.

+CLICK was developed by Christine…

A discovery by a team of Canadian and American researchers could provide new ways to fight HIV-AIDS. According to a new study published in…

There have been 16 unpublicized cases of HIV among porn actors since a 2004 outbreak made headlines, Los Angeles health officials said on Friday, a disclosure that was likely…

Determinants of knowledge of HIV status in South Africa: results from a population-based HIV survey

Over 30% of women and men in the South African national HIV…

Latent HIV genes can be ‘smoked out’ of human cells. The so-called ‘shock and kill’ technique, described in a preclinical study in BioMed Central’s open access journal…

Headed up the highway on a 60-mile roundtrip from his home in a small Vermont town, Jonathan Heins is on a weekly run to pick up the multiple drugs…

New HIV therapies have prolonged lives and improved health for patients with HIV, but the treatments have also brought the longer-term effects of the disease into…

Americans are often sympathetic to people living with HIV/AIDS and would favor greater funding to address the domestic HIV/AIDS crisis, according to a report released Wednesday.

At the same time,…

As adolescents whose mothers had HIV and who were born with HIV become sexually active, researchers are calling for public health initiatives aimed at preventing them from passing on the…

People with HIV are at high risk from the new flu strain that the World Health Organization said is on the verge of a pandemic, the WHO…

The last decade has seen a sharp drop in HIV infections in the Dominican Republic, resulting largely from reductions in risky sexual behavior, according to a…

Infants who become infected with HIV from their mothers can have a normal immune response to childhood vaccines, provided they begin treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy in…

Two studies presented at the 104th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) show that adult circumcision reduces the risk of contracting the human…

Chinese children with AIDS, especially those from rural families, are going without treatment because their families are too poor to afford it, despite a government policy of free treatment, an activist…

From 1985 to 2007, the CD4+ cell counts seen at diagnosis in HIV-infected patients in the US have fallen, suggesting that the virus may be adapting to the host and becoming…

Mutations that help HIV hide from the immune system undermine the virus’s ability to replicate, show an international team of researchers in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Experimental…

- Patients should start taking drugs for the AIDS virus earlier to have the best chance of survival, researchers said Thursday.

An analysis of more than 45,000 people with HIV in…