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BBC News
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Millions of people with HIV/Aids in poor countries still do not have access to potentially life-saving drugs.
A major report found just 31% of people in need of treatment in low and middle-income countries had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in..
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SF Gate
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed steps Tuesday to strengthen the government's strategy to battle HIV and AIDS in the United States and the rest of the world, becoming the latest Democratic presidential candidate to commit to a significant expansion of..
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BBC News
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The United Nations has reduced its estimates of how many people are infected with HIV in 2007 from nearly 40m to 33m.
Revised figures for India account for much of the decrease, experts say.
But the rate of new cases and mortality levels are declini..
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BBC News
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A rising number of dual infections with HIV and tuberculosis has created a co-epidemic spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa, researchers say.
Local health systems are unable to contain the co-epidemic, the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research says...
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BBC News
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The strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the United States and Europe has been traced back to Haiti by an international team of scientists.
The strain passed from Haiti to the US in about 1969 before spreading further, says the team in the Pro..
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Science Daily
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With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully neutralise the HIV virus. The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents the HIV virus from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune syste..
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BBC News
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The head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique has told the BBC he believes some European-made condoms are infected with HIV deliberately.
Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claimed some anti-retroviral drugs were also infected "in order to finish quic..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids has said the world is losing the battle against the virus.
Dr Anthony Fauci told a conference in Sydney that progress had been made, but more people were being infected with HIV than were being treat..
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Yahoo News
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In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said.
The scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV vi..
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BBC News
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A court in the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan has found 21 medical workers guilty of causing an HIV outbreak which has so far killed 10 children.
At least 119 children and babies contracted the virus after receiving treatment in hospitals in Shymken..
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BBC News
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Just 28% of poor people with HIV have access to the antiretroviral drugs that could save their lives, a study shows.
The report is published by the World Health Organization, UNAids and Unicef.
It warned many obstacles remain to meeting the United N..
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Sydney Morning Herald
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A new category of drugs has shown promising results for HIV/AIDS patients who failed to respond to other treatments, a new study shows.
Especially when combined with other medications, raltegravir - the first in a new class of anti-retroviral drugs cal..
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BBC News
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International experts have backed the use of male circumcision in the prevention of HIV.
The World Health Organization and UNAIDS said circumcision should be added to current interventions to reduce the spread of HIV.
Three African trials have shown..
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Physorg
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AIDS researchers said a new drug shows promise for inhibiting the HIV virus in patients new to treatment or those currently taking a drug cocktail...
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BBC News
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Circumcision can cut the rate of HIV infection in heterosexual men by 50%, results from two African trials show...
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EurekAlert
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For years researchers have been trying to understand how a few HIV-infected patients naturally defeat a virus that otherwise overwhelms the immune system. Last year, a research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center confirmed that such patient..
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BBC News
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Scientists are no further forward in developing a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist has said.
Professor David Baltimore, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)..
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MSNBC
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Seeking bold action to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic among black Americans, the NAACP, the National Urban League and other groups Thursday urged Congress to repeal a 20-year-old ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs.
More than 200 such progr..
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BBC News
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Malawian civil servants with HIV are to be given a pay rise by the government.
Health Minister Marjorie Ngaunjeb said all civil servants affected by the disease would receive an extra $35 a month to help them buy more food.
"We thought [it] would go..
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MSNBC
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After 16 years of staying in the background and letting her famous husband do the talking, Cookie Johnson is joining Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s battle to combat HIV and AIDS.
“My goal is to go out across the country and speak to over 1,000 women;..
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