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South African authorities busted a pyramid investment scheme on Tuesday involving a company offering HIV/AIDS treatments in a country with one of the world’s highest infection rates.

Finance Minister Pravin…

Limited success in modelling the behaviour of the complex, unusual and unpredictable HIV virus has slowed efforts to develop an effective vaccine to prevent AIDS.

A new improved…

China has revoked a ban on people with HIV/AIDS entering the country, softening a decades-old policy that drew sharp criticism this year when an Australian writer was blocked after…

Poor living conditions and lack of proper medical care in Zambian prisons are encouraging the spread of HIV and tuberculosis among inmates, a study showed on Tuesday.

The report by…

Rationing Funds, Risking Lives: World Backtracks on HIV Treatment, the new report from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), documents early warning signs resulting from…

Research into a deadly link between salmonella and HIV shows that the AIDS virus damages the immune system in ways doctors did not previously understand, providing new clues for vaccine…

New research identifies a molecular mechanism that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appears to utilize for generating random fluctuations called “noise” in its gene expression. The study, published by…

Alabama and South Carolina are subjecting HIV-positive prisoners to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” by segregating them in violation of international law, two leading U.S. rights groups said on…

Despite national guidelines aimed at improving sexual health services for teenagers, most sexually active boys — even those who report high-risk sexual behaviors — still get too little counseling about…

An approach designed to reduce HIV/STDs previously used exclusively by academic researchers has successfully been implemented by community-based organizations (CBOs), an important component in national…

Increasing rate of HIV/STD disease is being reported among ‘men who have sex with men’ with high risk behaviors in Africa and Asia, according…

A study by the Barcelona Public Health Agency has revealed those sections of the population that are most vulnerable to tuberculosis. The research, published in the…

HIV-infected patients are at a markedly increased risk for community acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections according to a new study by researchers at…

In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that…

Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and…

The Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January - a national high - and the country’s health secretary said on Thursday she would seek more public funds to…

In response to the urgent need to reduce the number of new HIV infections globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the…

UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 — a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need — from human…

How quickly an HIV patient’s immune system deteriorates may not affect the outcome of the illness, a study has found, and this could help change current guidelines for treatment of the…

The quest for a cream or gel to prevent AIDS infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market, scientists say.

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An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects starting to wane after a year or…

A team of scientists, led by a virologist from the University of California, San Diego’s Center for AID Research (CFAR), has discovered the origin of strains of human…

The results of an innovative study to understand what factors may influence who contracts tuberculosis (TB)/HIV co-infection in San Diego show a significant shift in the ethnic makeup of the…

Global attention is turning away from the AIDS epidemic at just the wrong time and means a fresh wave of the disease could infect millions of people in…

A new study of children in Ukraine has found that for the growing number of HIV-infected children, the quality of care and the relationship between children and their…