IV drug-resistant and nonsubtype B strains are becoming increasingly common in perinatally infected infants in New York State.

According to a recently published study from the…

Dozens of Indian men and women infected with HIV/AIDS have agreed to marry each other after meeting at a special matchmaking event, hoping to end the isolation the deadly infection…

HIV/AIDS patients carrying the monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 mutated allele have a better response to protease inhibitor treatment.

“Antiretroviral drug efficacy has been widely studied in relation to viral factors. Mutations in the HIV…

Kashmir, which is controlled by India in the south and Pakistan in the north, faces many unique challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS, IANS/DailyIndia.com reports. According to IANS/DailyIndia.com, there are…

Washing the penis regularly lowers the risk of HIV infection in uncircumcised men, and even among men who are circumcised, according to two papers in the Journal of AIDS…

Smokers may be at greater risk of HIV infection than non-smokers, reveals an analysis of published research issued ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Cigarette…

Despite the “bluster” of last month’s XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, there was “hardly a mention” of children and “stunning[ly] ... little attention was paid to…

The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition on Thursday released its annual report, titled “AIDS Vaccines: The Next Frontiers,” which says that without sufficient future planning, AIDS vaccine research could be slowed.

The report…

HIV-infected persons have multiple modifiable risk factors for developing coronary heart disease.

According to a recent report published in the Journal of the Association of Nurses…

HIV suppression maintained in HLA-B*57+ elite suppressors despite CTL escape mutations

Viral suppression is maintained in HIV-1-infected HLA-B*57+ elite suppressors despite cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape mutations.

According to a study from the United States,…

The most effective way to used AIDS drugs in South Africa would be to concentrate on cities, although this might also be the least ethical approach, an international team…

The most effective way to control the AIDS pandemic in hard-hit South Africa would be to concentrate the allocation of scarce antiretroviral drugs in urban areas. This, however, would…

South Africa’s controversial health minister hit back on Friday at criticism of her unorthodox views on AIDS and stuck to views that traditional medicine can treat AIDS.

More than 80…

Adult HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe since 2004 has fallen from 20.1% to 18.1%, Minister of Health and Child Welfare David Parirenyatwa said, citing the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey of 2005-2006, Reuters AlertNet…

A controversial policy promoting abstinence education to fight AIDS may be the best way to get men to treat women better, which experts agree is key to battling…

HIV/AIDS is affecting the democratic process in Namibia, according to a report by the Namibian Institute for Democracy and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, VOA News reports.

South Carolina’s HIV/AIDS “problem is an enormous one,” and state lawmakers “need to review the programs that fund HIV treatment” in the state, a Columbia State editorial says. South…

About 54,000 people in Ethiopia living with or affected by HIV/AIDS will receive nutritional assistance from the U.N. World Food Programme under a new…

The Taiwan AIDS Foundation in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Taipei North Star has launched an HIV prevention campaign that aims to educate people about HIV/AIDS in light of the…

African Life Assurance has launched an AIDS assurance policy in Zambia that will allow companies in the country to provide their employees living with HIV/AIDS access to affordable…

The global fight against HIV/AIDS highlights a “wider argument” about development issues, namely that the “prospects for advance in poor countries depend not just on programs launched within…

HIV-positive patients can safely undergo surgery for prostate cancer, as long as they are generally in good shape with reasonable immune function. These patients do about as well as…

Many HIV-positive men sometimes have unprotected sex with women who are either HIV-negative or whose HIV status is unknown to them, according to a study conducted in New York…

A team of researchers from the Universite’ de Montre’al and the Centre hospitalier de l’Universite’ de Montre’al (CHUM) have announced an important breakthrough in fighting the…

According to Chinese authorities, preliminary tests of its first AIDS vaccine indicate it could protect people against the HIV virus.

The State Food and Drug Administration says of the 49…