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The United Nations has chosen Armenia as host for its UNAIDS regional joint project center for fighting AIDS. The Yerevan office, set up this spring, will coordinate a…

Armenicum - a drug invented by Armenian scientist to treat AIDS

Armenicum is an anti-HIV therapy currently being studied in Armenia and other countries from the former Soviet Union. The product is supposed to have been…

The drug “Armenicum” is intended for treatment of HIV-infected adults in symptomatic and AIDS stages.

Clinical trials of the drug were started in Scientific Clinical Centre “Armenicum” in November, 1998 (Phase II). 240…

HIV-infection is a slowly but inevitably progressive immunodeficiency state developing in the result of the contamination with HIV-causative agent and leading to a number of fatal complications. The later clinically manifested stage…

Armenian doctors are sure that the modern-day plague can be beaten as hundreds of patients suffering from AIDS have already undergone treatment at a Yerevan clinic and feel well, Russia’s RIA…

The AIDS situation in Armenia is not so favorable.

According to official data, the number of HIV-infected persons and AIDS patients in Armenia is 124, but in fact…

Western Aids experts have poured cold water on reports from Armenia of a possible cure for the killer disease.

The treatment, Armenicum, is under development in Yerevan in Armenia, where there are claims…

Yerevan August 06, Armenpress- Armenicum is considered the best medicine against AIDs. One week ago it was massively tested in India, Armenian defense minister Serj Sargssian said adding that the number…

Armenicum is an anti-HIV therapy currently being studied in Armenia and other countries from the former Soviet Union. The product is supposed to have been developed as part of an anti-germ/chemical warfare inoculation for…

Only one in five people with HIV in poor and middle-income countries receives the drugs that treat the virus, said a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

Canada, host to what organizers bill as the largest global gathering on AIDS and HIV, has not taken seriously its avowed effort to help defeat the pandemic, a…

Nokhwezi Hoboyi never imagined she would live to see her 25th birthday.

The petite woman’s playful smile masks memories of her life slipping away just two years ago, bed-ridden…

Can the drugs that keep HIV-positive people alive also make it safer to enjoy carefree sex - much as during the pre-AIDS 1970s?

Health officials in…

An HIV/AIDS epidemic may kill 11 million people in India over the next 20 years, the Times of India reported on Wednesday, citing official census figures.

Along…

HIV-infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to adhere closely to their treatment regimen than are patients in North America, a multinational team of researchers reports in the Journal…

Local leaders from across rural India are to draw up an action plan to help stem the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in villages, where the majority of…

Stopping antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients from time to time could reduce the side effects and costs of the treatment, according to a study in this week’s issue…

A decade after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for HIV infection in Europe and North America, the risk of AIDS and death remains low for those…

A Cambodian court has jailed an HIV-positive man for 10 years for raping his wife without using a condom, the first conviction under landmark AIDS laws introduced in 2003,…

Ten years after they were introduced in Europe and North America, HIV/AIDS drugs are still effective but many patients are not being put on them soon enough, scientists said on…

More than 15,000 Canadians have HIV-AIDS but don’t know it, says a new report by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The study says about 58,000 people in…

Practical advice and individualized attention can help people with HIV stick to a consistent drug regimen, according to a new review of studies.

The studies were too different…

Thousands of HIV-positive children face discrimination in Romania, where vast, filthy orphanages were a breeding ground for AIDS before the 1989 fall of communism, a human rights group said…

Canada said on Monday it needed to do more to fight the spread of the HIV virus and AIDS after new data showed the number of victims infected…

A researcher at Purdue University is leading an effort to manufacture low-cost devices that would make it possible to perform affordable, widespread medical testing for millions of AIDS victims…