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HIV/AIDS is affecting the democratic process in Namibia, according to a report by the Namibian Institute for Democracy and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, VOA News reports.

South Carolina’s HIV/AIDS “problem is an enormous one,” and state lawmakers “need to review the programs that fund HIV treatment” in the state, a Columbia State editorial says. South…

About 54,000 people in Ethiopia living with or affected by HIV/AIDS will receive nutritional assistance from the U.N. World Food Programme under a new…

The Taiwan AIDS Foundation in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Taipei North Star has launched an HIV prevention campaign that aims to educate people about HIV/AIDS in light of the…

African Life Assurance has launched an AIDS assurance policy in Zambia that will allow companies in the country to provide their employees living with HIV/AIDS access to affordable…

The global fight against HIV/AIDS highlights a “wider argument” about development issues, namely that the “prospects for advance in poor countries depend not just on programs launched within…

HIV-positive patients can safely undergo surgery for prostate cancer, as long as they are generally in good shape with reasonable immune function. These patients do about as well as…

Many HIV-positive men sometimes have unprotected sex with women who are either HIV-negative or whose HIV status is unknown to them, according to a study conducted in New York…

A team of researchers from the Universite’ de Montre’al and the Centre hospitalier de l’Universite’ de Montre’al (CHUM) have announced an important breakthrough in fighting the…

According to Chinese authorities, preliminary tests of its first AIDS vaccine indicate it could protect people against the HIV virus.

The State Food and Drug Administration says of the 49…

An international research team believe they have discovered why the immune system is unable to control HIV infection.

The team have found a molecular pathway involved in the…

American and South African scientists working at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa have discovered how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) “exhausts” killer T cells that would otherwise…

Cases in which an HIV-positive person is infected with more than one strain of the virus are more common than previously believed, Canadian and U.S.…

As many as one in 300 HIV patients never get sick and never suffer damage to their immune systems and AIDS experts said on Wednesday they want to know why.

Most have…

An international, multi-institutional research consortium is seeking to discover how a few HIV-infected individuals are naturally able to suppress replication of the virus.

The Elite Controller Collaborative Study, the first large-scale haplotype-mapping study in…

Many populations worldwide have seen a decrease in HIV prevalence, but in several countries drug use is fueling new HIV epidemics. Prevention has become a key focus of the 16th…

There is no vaccine against AIDS and none of the dozens of vaccines being tested is likely to completely protect people from the deadly virus, but the future looks bright for…

Ten times more people in Africa are getting life-saving AIDS drugs than just three years ago, but still most get no treatment and the pandemic continues to…

Developing countries with few resources to fight AIDS could take their lead from Thailand’s prevention programs of recent years, which have allowed it to provide nearly free drug treatments…

Circumcision, microbicides and drugs all offer promising new possibilities for battling the AIDS pandemic, but it will not be easy to roll out this arsenal of prevention methods,…

The light scent of marijuana wafted among exhibits at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday, as activists took advantage of Canada’s comparatively pot-friendly policies to make a…

With antiretroviral therapy for adults with HIV infection continuing to evolve, the International AIDS Society -  USA Panel has issued updated recommendations for the treatment of HIV, according…

In the first head-to-head comparison between two commonly used HIV treatments, researchers found one triple-drug therapy was significantly more effective at reducing HIV viral load in the blood when…

Adding a fourth drug to an antiretroviral regimen for the initial treatment of HIV-1 did not lead to significant differences in reducing HIV levels in the…

A growing number of countries are supporting coercive or discriminatory HIV testing programs that fail to ensure confidentiality, a U.S. human rights group said on Thursday ahead of an…