HIV-infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to adhere closely to their treatment regimen than are patients in North America, a multinational team of researchers reports in the Journal…

Local leaders from across rural India are to draw up an action plan to help stem the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in villages, where the majority of…

Stopping antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients from time to time could reduce the side effects and costs of the treatment, according to a study in this week’s issue…

A decade after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for HIV infection in Europe and North America, the risk of AIDS and death remains low for those…

A Cambodian court has jailed an HIV-positive man for 10 years for raping his wife without using a condom, the first conviction under landmark AIDS laws introduced in 2003,…

Ten years after they were introduced in Europe and North America, HIV/AIDS drugs are still effective but many patients are not being put on them soon enough, scientists said on…

More than 15,000 Canadians have HIV-AIDS but don’t know it, says a new report by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The study says about 58,000 people in…

Practical advice and individualized attention can help people with HIV stick to a consistent drug regimen, according to a new review of studies.

The studies were too different…

Thousands of HIV-positive children face discrimination in Romania, where vast, filthy orphanages were a breeding ground for AIDS before the 1989 fall of communism, a human rights group said…

Canada said on Monday it needed to do more to fight the spread of the HIV virus and AIDS after new data showed the number of victims infected…

A researcher at Purdue University is leading an effort to manufacture low-cost devices that would make it possible to perform affordable, widespread medical testing for millions of AIDS victims…

The AIDS virus hides out inside people’s intestines, researchers said on Saturday in a report that offers new understanding of the incurable infection.

The virus replicates in the…

A first shipment of a new HIV drug that has critical advantages for patients in poor countries arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday in what a humanitarian organization described…

An HIV/AIDS epidemic in India will cut nearly one percentage point a year from economic growth over the next decade as higher health spending eats into investment and workers fall…

Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies, there has been a substantial reduction of opportunistic infections and other infections in HIV-infected children, such as pneumonia…

A six-year-old boy in eastern India was forced to leave school because of fears that he was HIV positive after his father was discovered to have been infected, newspapers…

The Clinton Foundation, an AIDS charity set up by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, has signed a deal with Nigeria to make cheap AIDS drugs available to fight the…

A Chinese court on Monday ordered compensation and an apology for a girl orphaned by AIDS after a newspaper reported her story without permission, stirring a dispute over the boundary…

HIV-1 indirectly affects the uptake of Leishmania parasites inside monocyte-derived macrophages.

“Concurrent uncontrolled development of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and Leishmania spp. is regarded as an…

Madagascar is cutting funding to 200 local charities fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, accusing them of mismanaging aid money, the government said on Tuesday.

Executive Secretary of the…

Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.

They analyzed data from trials that showed men…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. has granted approval for a three-ingredient fixed dose tablet for use as an antiretroviral treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection in…

A home-based training program improves the physical fitness of HIV-positive women, according to a new study.

“HIV-infected women demonstrate extremely low levels of aerobic fitness,” Dr. Steven K. Grinspoon told…

A 15-year-old Indian boy has died after setting himself ablaze on hearing his parents were infected with HIV, police said on Monday.

“The boy said in his dying…

Washington DC has the the highest rate of new HIV and AIDS cases in the U.S.

As many as 2 per cent of all DC residents suffer from…