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Delinquent and at-risk teens who complete a brief computer-based program designed to reduce risky sexual behaviors are less likely to have sex and more likely to have sex with fewer partners,…

South Africa’s controversial health minister returned to the spotlight on Thursday after snubbing a major AIDS conference, announcing a “significant” decrease in the number of pregnant women…

Voluntary HIV tests should be offered to all patients attending clinics, for whatever reason, in countries where AIDS is widespread, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.

Elsewhere, testing…

A tale of 3 cities - Persisting high HIV prevalence, risk behavior and undiagnosed infection in community samples of men who have sex with men

More than…

A generation of children born with HIV are now coming of age and reaching sexual maturity. Girls in this group who are sexually active are experiencing…

Hundreds of thousands of children are dying of AIDS in developing countries because they do not have access to treatment readily available elsewhere, U.N. health agencies said on Tuesday.

While paediatric HIV…

Studies demonstrate that AZT causes genetic damage that may increase future cancer risk

HIV transmission from mother to child can occur in utero, during labor…

A Canadian woman who had sex with men she met in bars, without using a condom and without telling them she was HIV-positive, has been charged with sexual assault, police…

Scientists have highlighted for the first time the plight of the growing number of older children and adolescents living with undiagnosed HIV and AIDS in Africa. In a…

Pfizer Inc. said on Tuesday pivotal-stage trials found that adding its experimental HIV drug maraviroc to a regimen of the best-available drugs resulted in twice as many patients achieving suppression of…

Higher risk profiles account for the high rates of HIV infection among injection drug users who participate in needle exchange programs, not participation in the program itself, according to researchers…

The primary targets of HIV-1 infection in the human vagina have been definitively identified in a new study published in the February 2007 issue of the journal Immunity,…

Smoking cannabis daily can significantly reduce the chronic nerve pain experienced by many HIV-infected patients, according to results of a trial conducted at the University of California, San Francisco.

A new study suggests the effects of long-standing, undiagnosed HIV infection are hanging over a generation of adolescents in Zimbabwe, causing organ damage, chronic ill health,…

An international study led by Johns Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia along with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia from strokes…

While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely…

Despite the success of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART), people with HIV may still be at higher risk for nutritional deficiencies and abnormalities. In two different studies, researchers at…

India’s Andhra Pradesh state, which has the country’s largest number of HIV cases, is set to become the first to make it mandatory for couples to take a HIV test…

An experimental antiretroviral drug designated “MK-0518” rapidly achieves sharp reductions in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) levels, and may offer the prospect of single-drug treatment for patients with HIV…

Using hormonal contraception does not appear to increase women’s overall risk of contracting the AIDS virus, according to a U.S. National Institutes of Health study published on Thursday.

The study, published…

Nearly 300 U.S. physicians, government health officials and HIV/AIDS advocates on Wednesday gathered in Washington, D.C., for a two-day meeting that focuses on new approaches to expanding HIV testing in the…

A new evidence review is arming local health agencies with the most effective ways of stopping the spread of HIV -  role-playing, better personal communication and proper condom use, for…

A man in the U.S. infected with HIV, who knowingly exposed three women to the virus, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.

A jury has found…

HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and, most worrying, in countries like Uganda and Thailand that had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS,…

Findings may provide important clues for vaccine development

How well an individual’s immune system controls HIV during the earliest phases of infection appears to depend on…