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The AIDS virus hides out inside people’s intestines, researchers said on Saturday in a report that offers new understanding of the incurable infection.

The virus replicates in the…

A first shipment of a new HIV drug that has critical advantages for patients in poor countries arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday in what a humanitarian organization described…

An HIV/AIDS epidemic in India will cut nearly one percentage point a year from economic growth over the next decade as higher health spending eats into investment and workers fall…

Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies, there has been a substantial reduction of opportunistic infections and other infections in HIV-infected children, such as pneumonia…

A six-year-old boy in eastern India was forced to leave school because of fears that he was HIV positive after his father was discovered to have been infected, newspapers…

The Clinton Foundation, an AIDS charity set up by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, has signed a deal with Nigeria to make cheap AIDS drugs available to fight the…

A Chinese court on Monday ordered compensation and an apology for a girl orphaned by AIDS after a newspaper reported her story without permission, stirring a dispute over the boundary…

HIV-1 indirectly affects the uptake of Leishmania parasites inside monocyte-derived macrophages.

“Concurrent uncontrolled development of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and Leishmania spp. is regarded as an…

Madagascar is cutting funding to 200 local charities fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, accusing them of mismanaging aid money, the government said on Tuesday.

Executive Secretary of the…

Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.

They analyzed data from trials that showed men…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. has granted approval for a three-ingredient fixed dose tablet for use as an antiretroviral treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection in…

A home-based training program improves the physical fitness of HIV-positive women, according to a new study.

“HIV-infected women demonstrate extremely low levels of aerobic fitness,” Dr. Steven K. Grinspoon told…

A 15-year-old Indian boy has died after setting himself ablaze on hearing his parents were infected with HIV, police said on Monday.

“The boy said in his dying…

Washington DC has the the highest rate of new HIV and AIDS cases in the U.S.

As many as 2 per cent of all DC residents suffer from…

AIDS experts in India are targeting a new group in their campaign to raise HIV awareness - married women.

Surveys show that a majority of HIV-infected women did not report…

The virulence characteristic of HIV-1 - the virus predominantly responsible for human AIDS - might amount to an accident of evolution, new evidence reveals.

A gene function lost during the…

A British woman was jailed for 36 months on Monday for deliberately infecting a man with HIV.

Sarah Jane Porter, 42, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court after admitting…

HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic blacks than it is among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the United States, according to the first study…

HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic blacks than it is among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the United States, according to…

Scientists investigating the genetic makeup of rhesus macaque monkeys, a key species used in biomedical research, have found the rhesus in Nepal may provide a suitable alternative…

The United States plans to propose a global annual HIV Testing Day modeled on a U.S. campaign encouraging at-risk individuals to determine if they have the AIDS virus, first…

This year, the U.S. federal government will spend $21 billion for HIV/AIDS research, treatment, prevention, and related activities. Is this enormous expenditure paying off?

A study published in the…

India “totally disagrees” with a UN report saying the country now has the highest number of people living with the HIV virus in the world and is a major concern in…

Twenty-eight people stabbed on a crowded street by a drunken German teenager are receiving protective treatment for the next four weeks after it emerged that one victim was HIV positive,…

A newly redesigned antioxidant may play a critical role in preventing HIV-1-associated dementia, says a University of Missouri-Rolla chemist. Her research will be published in an upcoming issue of the…