The Red Cross in Canada has pleaded guilty to distributing contaminated blood supplies which infected thousands of Canadians with HIV and Hepatitis C *.

More than 3,000 people…

India’s top drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. on Tuesday became the first Indian drug maker to have regulatory approval for a generic AIDS drug to be…

GlaxoSmithKline Plc has settled a long-running legal dispute over the diversion of AIDS drugs destined for Africa, Europe’s biggest drugmaker said on Friday.

The world’s largest supplier…

Thousands of women staged a silent protest in Calcutta on Friday to press New Delhi to fight a U.S. law setting conditions on aid to fight HIV/AIDS.

The…

Lawyers for prominent AIDS “dissident” Matthias Rath defended his attack on South Africa’s most influential activist group on Thursday, telling a court his drive against AIDS…

The World Bank signed an agreement with Vietnam on Thursday to provide a grant worth $35 million to help the country combat the   HIV/AIDS epidemic.

India, which has the second largest number of people in the world living with HIV/AIDS, said on Wednesday it had cut the growth rate of new infections…

Rich countries must do more to protect African children from   HIV/AIDS, the new head of the United Nations children’s agency said on Tuesday.

Ann Veneman said she…

Britain urged the European Union on Monday to boost the fight against AIDS by improving the availability of condoms to prevent the spread of the disease.

“I…

Three England international footballers met more than 3,000 Malawian youths on Monday urging them to step up the fight against HIV/AIDS, a pandemic that kills 10 people every…

South Africa’s most influential activist group took prominent AIDS “dissident” Matthias Rath to court on Friday to stop a campaign to vilify the group and discredit…

President Olusegun Obasanjo opened Nigeria’s first blood transfusion centre on Thursday to help stem the spread of the AIDS virus by preventing the use of contaminated blood…

United Nations aid agencies on Thursday slammed prominent AIDS “dissident” Matthias Rath for what they called his wrong and dangerous campaign against life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs.

The…

With his mother long dead and his father off with a new family, nobody comes to visit Carlos, 27, as he sits blinded by AIDS and awaiting death…

Health officials in North Carolina have found a cost-effective way to identify people whose infection with the AIDS virus is so recent that the standard screening test would…

South Africa’s health minister on Thursday criticised the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) goals on AIDS treatment and accused it of using the country as a scapegoat for…

White, wealthy and proudly gay, Judge Edwin Cameron is hardly a typical face of the AIDS pandemic ravaging southern Africa.

But Cameron, a member of South Africa’s Supreme Court…