Globally there are 40 million people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). According to latest estimates based on National Family Health Survey (NFHS), released by National AIDS Control…

When a host cell is infected with HIV, the virus brings its own genetic material into the host cell. This cell then replicates, reads the viral RNA, and uses it as a…

Even though effective drug cocktails have improved the outlook for many patients with HIV, disease progression, including the time from AIDS onset to death, varies widely from patient…

Physicists in Arizona State University have designed a revolutionary laser technique which can destroy viruses and bacteria such as AIDS without damaging human cells and may also help reduce…

Providing HIV combination antiretroviral drug therapy is key to saving the lives of African children infected with the disease.

Letting nurses and other trained health care workers deliver that therapy…

People with medium levels of HIV in their blood are likely to contribute most to the spread of the virus, according to…

For African Americans infected with HIV, the risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is six times higher than for whites with HIV—and similar to the ESRD risk…

Infection with HIV/AIDS are urgent medical problems worldwide with broad social, cultural, economical, political, ethical and legal implications.[1] Prevention indisputably is the most important objective. In the absence of a vaccine -…

Based in part on protein structures determined at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists at the University of Utah have…

A combination of drugs widely used to treat infections caused by HIV appears to stop brain damage caused by the virus as well, according to a study published in…

HIV positive employees face unemployment and workplace discrimination, indicates a study published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

But women and those who are less well…

Researchers at the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (PARC-MGH) may have discovered a second molecular “switch” responsible for turning off the immune system’s response against HIV.…

A new study may help put to rest fears that pregnancy accelerates progression to full-blown AIDS in women with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy. The study, published in the October 1st issue…

Not long ago, organ transplantation was not considered an option for HIV infected patients. However, in recent years, new clinical approaches have led to good outcomes in the growing number of HIV-positive…

Biological and demographic causes of high HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevalence in men who have sex with men

Differences in sexual…

HIV infection is on the rise among young men who have sex with men (MSM) in New York City, according to…

A new joint study by UCLA and the Rand Corp. shows that more than half of children with an HIV-infected parent are not consistently in that parent’s…

Physicians might want to be extra careful about how they treat HIV-infected patients —not just in the clinical sense but in the way they behave toward them.

Non-randomized epidemiological studies have suggested that uncircumcised men may be exposed to a higher risk of infection with the HIV virus after sexual intercourse.

It has been suggested that…

In a report that is among the first to describe the prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C viruses in Afghanistan, a researcher from the University of…

New findings that one in 20 North Carolina men who have sex with men (MSM) reported using crystal methamphetamine during the previous month suggests increased risk for spreading HIV…

Unsafe sex has overtaken intravenous drug use as the primary route of transmission of new HIV infections in China, suggesting that the virus is spreading from high-risk groups…

A prominent problem in AIDS is a form of dementia that robs one’s ability to concentrate and perform normal movements. Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham)…

Pfizer Inc said on Monday that U.S. regulators approved its AIDS drug Selzentry, the first in a new class of oral HIV medicines.

Selzentry is the first drug designed…

In high income countries, programs that encourage abstinence from sex as the only method of preventing HIV infection are not effective in achieving this goal, findings from a review of…