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Hazardous alcohol use is common among HIV-positive women, for whom excessive drinking poses special health risks, according to a new study out in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS.

The Lancet in an…

A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology have for the first time captured on video…

“Who’s next for testing?” Nathalie Boittin asked on Tuesday in a crowded waiting room at the Whitman-Walker Clinic in northwest Washington.

A young black man rose and Boittin, a community…

Measuring levels of anti-HIV drugs in hair samples rather than in the blood can better predict whether they will be effective or not, U.S. investigators report in the journal AIDS.

HIV/AIDS statistics for women and girls are startling.

Nationwide, the percentage of new AIDS cases diagnosed among women more than doubled between 1990 and 2005 (the…

A group including leading academic and industry scientists has issued a challenge to researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS: find a way to effectively purge latent HIV infection and eliminate the need…

Scientists have created a strain of the human AIDS virus able to infect and multiply in monkeys, in a step toward testing future vaccines in monkeys before trying them…

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body’s defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according…

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body’s defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according to…

Cameroon is a sub-Saharan African country with high HIV rates yet many pregnant women do not know their HIV status. Research published in the open access journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth…

Treatment with two antiretroviral drugs before exposure to HIV may significantly reduce the risk of acquiring the infection. Specifically, pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) regimen of tenofovir and emtricitabine has the potential…

African-Americans who perceive racism — whether subtle or overt — might be more likely to accept readily available HIV testing, according to a study conducted in…

The AIDS virus is quickly adapting across large groups of people to avoid triggering the human immune system, posing another challenge in the search for a potential vaccine, researchers said…

Results of a new study show that major interruptions in HIV drug treatment occur after release from prison.

Within 60 days of release from prison, just 30 percent of…

A new UCLA AIDS Institute study has found that gene therapy can be developed as a safe and active technique to combat HIV.

Researchers involved in this first-of-its-kind…

Most Americans infected with the AIDS virus live in cities, with 10 states accounting for 71 percent of cases, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for…

The AIDS virus became the top deadly infectious disease in China last year for the first time, killing 6,897 people in the first nine months of 2008,…

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have piggybacked antibodies onto radioactive payloads to deliver doses of radiation that selectively target and destroy microbial and…

Gels to protect women from infection with the AIDS virus have shown hints that they may work, researchers said on Monday.

But two studies show that men who…

In the United States, African American men and women continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the director of the National Institute…

A study of HIV-infected individuals in Jackson, Mississippi, revealed that many young, black men who have sex with men had three risk behaviors in common.

According to findings reported…

A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV,…

The risk of being infected by HIV may be determined by the presence of a molecule in a person’s blood cells, according to a discovery made by Swedish…

Researchers have discovered a potentially important new resistance factor in the battle against HIV: blood types. An international team of researchers from Canadian Blood Services, The Hospital…