AIDS/HIV

Obama sets new U.S. goal on fighting AIDS

President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday to bolster U.S. efforts to fight AIDS, setting a new goal of providing treatment to 6 million people…    

HIV prevalence in prisons around the world

The number of prisoners living with HIV varies between countries. America has the highest prison population in the world, around 1.5 percent of whom…    

HIV/AIDS in prisons

HIV/AIDS in state and federal prisoners was more than 2.5 times higher than that in the U.S. population. Approximately 46 per 10,000 prison inmates…    

Hepatitis C Transmitted by Unprotected Sex Between HIV-Infected Men

Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is considered rare. But a new study by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, working with…    

Simpler Combination Therapy as Good as Old Regimen to Prevent Full-Blown TB in People with and without HIV

Johns Hopkins and South African scientists have further compelling evidence that new, simpler and shorter treatments with antibiotic drugs could dramatically help prevent tens…    

Study finds little decline in hepatitis C infections among injection drug users

A recent 20-year study of injection drug users (IDUs) in Baltimore found a significant decline in new cases of HIV infection but only a…    

Spike Reported in Number of People with HIV Having a Stroke

New research suggests that people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be up to three times more likely to have a stroke compared…    

Multiple sclerosis will become a controlled disease like AIDS

The complexity of the immune system and nervous system turn Neuroimmunology into one of the most exciting fields of modern biomedicine. Between October 26th…    

India not treating AIDS patients early: Global Fund

Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the…    

Canada study finds link between smoking crack, HIV

Smoking crack cocaine daily adds to the risk of spreading HIV, a Canadian study published on Monday says, although researchers acknowledge they are not…    

Vatican defends pope condoms stand

The Vatican on Wednesday defended Pope Benedict’s opposition to the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS as activists, doctors and politicians…    

Tiny fungi may have sex while infecting humans

A fungus called microsporidia that causes chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients and travelers has been identified as a member of the…    

China arrests 15 in AIDS blood donor scandal

China has arrested 15 people for involvement in illegal blood-selling schemes blamed for widespread HIV/AIDS infections in the 1990s, the China Daily…    

Clinton group to spend $10 mln for kids with AIDS

Former President Bill Clinton on Monday said his foundation would spend some $10 million this year to help treat 10,000 children afflicted with…    

New study reduces Tanzanian HIV prevalence to 7 Pct

Tanzania revised its HIV infection rate downwards to 7 percent Friday, from a previous estimate of 12 to 15 percent, but said the number…    

Panel defends study behind AIDS drug for babies

Medical experts on Thursday defended a study that led to the widespread use of a single AIDS drug called nevirapine to protect…    

Promoting abstinence ineffective against AIDS

There is no evidence that promoting abstinence or marital fidelity works against AIDS, as the Bush administration argues, a senior Brazilian health…    

More than half young adult Swazis have HIV-survey

More than half of young adults in Swaziland between the ages of 25 and 29 are infected with the virus that causes…    

S. Africa’s children risk catching HIV in hospital

Blood-stained medical instruments and mix-ups with HIV-contaminated breast milk are raising the risk that children in some South African hospitals will…    

Kenyan business slow in tackling HIV/AIDS

Businesses in Kenya are not doing enough to combat HIV/AIDS at their workplace although they are fully aware the disease is affecting…    

HIV testing advised for all sexually active people

Now is the time to implement routine, not risk-based, HIV testing, according to an editorial published in the medical journal Clinical Infectious…    

Soweto sex survey shows S. Africa’s AIDS challenge

South Africa may have the world’s largest number of HIV infections, but more than one in seven township dwellers say they rarely…    

AIDS kills some 2,880 Tanzania teachers annually

Tanzania is losing an average of 2,880 school teachers to HIV/AIDS every year because of lack of condoms and life-prolonging drugs, the…    

U.S. abstinence hurts Uganda AIDS success: report

President Yoweri Museveni is jeopardizing Uganda’s giant strides against HIV/AIDS by backing U.S.-funded “abstinence-only” programs, a New-York based human rights group said…    

AIDS virus destroys immune cells fast-studies

Within days of infection, the AIDS virus destroys more than half of the immune cells that might recognize and help fight it—a…