Two studies presented at the 104th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) show that adult circumcision reduces the risk of contracting the human…

Chinese children with AIDS, especially those from rural families, are going without treatment because their families are too poor to afford it, despite a government policy of free treatment, an activist…

From 1985 to 2007, the CD4+ cell counts seen at diagnosis in HIV-infected patients in the US have fallen, suggesting that the virus may be adapting to the host and becoming…

Mutations that help HIV hide from the immune system undermine the virus’s ability to replicate, show an international team of researchers in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Experimental…

- Patients should start taking drugs for the AIDS virus earlier to have the best chance of survival, researchers said Thursday.

An analysis of more than 45,000 people with HIV in…

Today, during the 87th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, convening at the Miami Beach Convention Center, a group of scientists from Nihon University…

Hazardous alcohol use is common among HIV-positive women, for whom excessive drinking poses special health risks, according to a new study out in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

“At…

A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS.

The Lancet in an…

A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology have for the first time captured on video…

“Who’s next for testing?” Nathalie Boittin asked on Tuesday in a crowded waiting room at the Whitman-Walker Clinic in northwest Washington.

A young black man rose and Boittin, a community…

Measuring levels of anti-HIV drugs in hair samples rather than in the blood can better predict whether they will be effective or not, U.S. investigators report in the journal AIDS.

HIV/AIDS statistics for women and girls are startling.

Nationwide, the percentage of new AIDS cases diagnosed among women more than doubled between 1990 and 2005 (the…

A group including leading academic and industry scientists has issued a challenge to researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS: find a way to effectively purge latent HIV infection and eliminate the need…

Scientists have created a strain of the human AIDS virus able to infect and multiply in monkeys, in a step toward testing future vaccines in monkeys before trying them…

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body’s defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according…

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body’s defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according to…

Cameroon is a sub-Saharan African country with high HIV rates yet many pregnant women do not know their HIV status. Research published in the open access journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth…

Treatment with two antiretroviral drugs before exposure to HIV may significantly reduce the risk of acquiring the infection. Specifically, pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) regimen of tenofovir and emtricitabine has the potential…

African-Americans who perceive racism — whether subtle or overt — might be more likely to accept readily available HIV testing, according to a study conducted in…

The AIDS virus is quickly adapting across large groups of people to avoid triggering the human immune system, posing another challenge in the search for a potential vaccine, researchers said…

Results of a new study show that major interruptions in HIV drug treatment occur after release from prison.

Within 60 days of release from prison, just 30 percent of…

A new UCLA AIDS Institute study has found that gene therapy can be developed as a safe and active technique to combat HIV.

Researchers involved in this first-of-its-kind…

Most Americans infected with the AIDS virus live in cities, with 10 states accounting for 71 percent of cases, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for…

The AIDS virus became the top deadly infectious disease in China last year for the first time, killing 6,897 people in the first nine months of 2008,…

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have piggybacked antibodies onto radioactive payloads to deliver doses of radiation that selectively target and destroy microbial and…