HIV/AIDS news
China AIDS victims fight bad drugs, ineptitude
Wang Shuling’s skin is stretched tight over her bones and her body shakes like a leaf, to the…
Low-Level Viremia ‘Blips’ in Very Early HIV Infection
Intermittent low-level viremia (LLV) can occur in the very early stages of primary HIV infection, before…
Racial gap seen in gay sex HIV rates
In the US, black men who have sex with men (MSM, in the parlance of researchers) are…
US approves Boehringer drug for resistant HIV
Boehringer Ingelheim won U.S. approval on Wednesday to sell its AIDS medicine Aptivus for treating adults with drug-resistant…
Japan’s AIDS stigma hampers treatment
A strong stigma against AIDS in Japan is hampering access to treatment in the world’s second-largest…
HIV positive African clergy fight AIDS stigma
A group of African clergy infected with HIV is urging the faithful to test for the…
Generic drugs key to uphill AIDS fight
Generic drugs hold the key to AIDS treatment in the developing world, although a target of…
S. Africa court mulls AIDS drugs defamation
A South African court reserved judgment on Tuesday on an attempt by the country’s most influential
Indian, Pakistani prostitutes discuss AIDS lessons
A group of Pakistani prostitutes has been picking up tips in safe sex and “brothel management” in one…
Internet fuels risky sex in gay, bisexual men
Gay and bisexual men who meet partners over the Internet are more likely to engage in risky sex…
AIDS “tsunami” threatens Africa’s children
The Red Cross issued a warning of “a silent tsunami” wiping out an entire generation as it launched…
Blacks hardest hit by HIV in US
Blacks account for nearly half of the more than 1 million Americans with HIV, according to…
Mandela urges rich world to act against AIDS
Nelson Mandela joined some of the world’s top musicians Saturday in pressing the rich world to act against…
Global Fund grant to Russia to boost AIDS drugs
The number of Russian AIDS patients receiving life-extending drugs will increase ten-fold to 15,500 under a…
Science hopes to give women new tools against AIDS
New HIV prevention treatments for women may be available as early as 2009, a sign of…
China’s migrant workers a high AIDS risk
China faces a tragic surge in HIV/AIDS cases unless it curbs the spread of the disease…
S. Africa warns of “national wipe-out” from AIDS
South Africa faces “national wipe-out” unless it steps up its war on HIV/AIDS, a business leader…
South Africa’s armed forces grapple with HIV/AIDS
Nearly one in four South African soldiers is infected with HIV, putting added strain on the…
Zimbabwe to seek more AIDS help as politics weighs
Zimbabwe and U.N. agencies will ask donors for at least $40 million for HIV/AIDS programmes between…
UN says goal to reverse AIDS by 2015 won’t be met
The world will not meet its goal of halting and reversing the spread of AIDS in…
