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An HIV test that can be used at home and promises results in 20 minutes could help more people get treated sooner, but raises concerns about how well…

Research with female monkeys at the Tulane National Primate Research Center has for the first time shown that three different anti-viral agents in a…

A vaginal gel containing compounds that block HIV from fusing with host cells may offer protection against HIV transmission, studies in lab monkeys suggest.

Dr. John P.…

For the first time ever the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched an outdoor advertising campaign highlighting the plight of children with HIV/AIDS.

The…

The peer-reviewed results of the first trial of the effect of male circumcision on HIV infection, which some experts call “a landmark…

Zimbabwe’s HIV infection rate has fallen to around 20 percent of the population from 25 percent five years ago, apparently due to more condom use and…

Attempts to develop an AIDS vaccine need greater coordination to avoid duplication and increase the chances of success, Health Ministry officials said on Tuesday.

“There is that danger…

U.S. health officials on Thursday granted tentative approval for a generic liquid version of the AIDS drug AZT, allowing it to be used overseas under a U.S.…

Southern Sudan is in the midst of an HIV/AIDS epidemic and most of its people are without clean water, sanitation or education services, a United Nations body said in a…

A Malawian woman hacked her 9-year-old son to death with an axe on Friday after discovering they were both infected with HIV, police said.

Mother and son both…

An international firm of auditors will temporarily take over management of AIDS funding in Uganda from a local firm accused of mismanaging aid money, a senior Ugandan official…

South Africa, struggling to treat the world’s highest number of HIV/AIDS patients, plans to train more nurses and try to coax back those who have moved abroad, the…

Most adults in the U.S. believe that a vaccine against HIV infection offers the best chance of controlling the global AIDS epidemic and are confident…

AIDS campaigners in Namibia said on Wednesday a government decision to withdraw disability grants from people with HIV who were still capable of working could accelerate the onset…

According to information presented by D.T. Fleming and J.N. Wasserheit in 1999, significant biological evidence exists that links STDs and HIV. According to their research, the presence of STDs…

An international AIDS conference ended here on Tuesday with warnings that a window of opportunity to reverse the epidemic in Asia, where an explosion of the…

AIDS and a growing urban population are forcing South African officials to find new cemeteries and encourage families to bury several members in the same grave, Johannesburg city authorities…

The World Health Organization will fail to meet its target of having three million people on free HIV/AIDS treatment by the end of this year but will…

The longstanding observation that circumcision protects against HIV infection to some degree has been confirmed in a randomized trial.

Circumcision in adult heterosexual men is as effective in preventing new…