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Through December of 1997, the United Nations AIDS Programme (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that over 30 million people are living with HIV infection worldwide, with…

HIV is transmitted primarily through sexual contact, parenteral exposure to blood or blood products, and perinatally from infected mothers to their infants.

Sexual Transmission

The predominant mode of HIV transmission throughout the world…

HIV, the virus which leads to AIDS and which affects 40 million people across the world, has been seen in 3D detail for the first time by Oxford scientists and their colleagues in…

China’s AIDS epidemic shows no signs of abating with an estimated 70,000 new HIV infections occurring in 2005, according to a report released by the Chinese Ministry of…

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania have shown that race/ethnicity is a predictor of plasma lipids in patients with HIV-1 on HAART (highly active…

Recent studies in persons with long-term non-progressing infection suggest that the immune response to HIV may be of sufficient magnitude, in rare cases, to successfully contain the virus and prevent the development of…

The initial phase of HIV-1 infection is characterized by high-level viremia, associated with the ability to detect the viral core protein p24 in the serum. However, soon after infection the level of viremia…

The clinical consequences of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are due to the ability of this retrovirus to disarm the host immune system, a process that occurs by virtue of the fact that…

The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), caused by the diabolically unique human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), has profoundly changed contemporary society and medical practice. The chapters in this part enable the physician to…

Argentina’s Health Ministry has announced that in partnership with the Brazilian government they plan to produce their own anti-AIDS drugs in an effort to lower the cost of…

An international team of AIDS researchers at Johns Hopkins and other institutions has found that a once-daily combination of three antiretroviral drugs works better as an initial…

Scientists have found that some of the ‘friendly bacteria’ found in yoghurt can be genetically modified to release a drug that blocks HIV infection.

They say in the…

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced on Thursday an initiative with nine drug companies he said would cut the cost of HIV/AIDS testing and treatment in 50 developing countries and help save…

Reductions in the amount of HIV in the blood that occur during the initial period of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) predicts the likelihood of survival up to six…

Companies around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about AIDS, with 46 percent now expecting some impact on their operations in the next five years, according to a…

The arrest of four people on charges of homosexuality and running an online gay club in northern India has triggered criticism by NGOs and the United Nations’ AIDS…

Researchers Harmit Malik and Michael Emerman and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found that a surprisingly large fraction of humans may be impaired in the…

Nigeria will double the number of government centres where AIDS patients can get free drugs in the next three months as part of a major drive to widen access to…

Using sophisticated detection methods, researchers at the Saint Louis University Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV) have demonstrated the molecular mechanism by which the HIV virus infects, or integrates, healthy cells.…

Circuit parties - mammoth dance events for gay and bisexual men who socialize sometimes for 24 hours without sleep - were created in the 1980s in large part to raise…

In findings illustrating the difficulty of developing an AIDS vaccine, UCLA AIDS Institute researchers report the immune systems in two HIV-positive identical twins responded to the infection…

The real scale of the AIDS epidemic in China is obscured by poor monitoring and official obstruction say China’s top AIDS official who says a confirmed rise of…

The tiny African kingdom of Lesotho will launch door-to-door HIV tests to mark World AIDS Day on Thursday, hoping to turn back an epidemic that infects almost one third of…

Without intervention, between 25% and 35% of the children born to HIV-positive mothers will themselves be infected.

In about 50% of the cases, transmission from mother to child occurs…