Women and girls - get out your red ribbons. March 10th is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

As of 2004, 27 percent of new AIDS…

HIV-infected patients who persistently use cocaine and heroin are at increased risk of opportunistic infections, disease progression, and death compared with nonusers, investigators in Baltimore report. While they are…

With billions of dollars pouring in to fight Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, Tanzanian AIDS counsellor Gandencia Bazil has a simple request.

“We need a bicycle,” said Bazil, who heads the AIDS committee…

Tenofovir gel is safe and well tolerated when used vaginally to prevent HIV transmission, according to a report in the medical journal AIDS.

Tenofovir administered as an intravaginal gel…

Blood donated for transfusions in China is still not routinely tested for HIV, despite a legal requirement to do so, triggering a “hidden epidemic,” an AIDS activist said on…

A form of psychotherapy called cognitive behavioral stress management may enhance the effectiveness of anti-HIV drug therapy, Florida-based researchers report in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

“Managing complex HIV regimens…can…

The United States will spend more than $208 million to prevent new HIV infections and provide life-prolonging AIDS drugs in Kenya in 2006, its embassy in Nairobi…

A South African man was jailed for life on Thursday for raping an AIDS activist and beating her to death after she told him she was HIV positive.

Lorna Mlosana,…

Maternal multivitamin supplements containing vitamins B, C and E reduce the risks of motor developmental delays in infants born to HIV-positive mothers in developing countries, according to a study…

A new study from infectious disease researchers at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School finds that a drug already given orally to treat HIV is also safe…

When it comes to fighting the AIDS virus, the sooner patients start taking powerful drug cocktails, the better - even when it comes to side-effects known as toxicities, U.S.…

Johns Hopkins scientists say an infected person’s HIV subtype is a better predictor than viral load for determining rapid death from AIDS.

Just over half of new infections with the AIDS virus in the United States are in blacks, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

A study of detailed data from…

People in Zimbabwe, a country hard hit by AIDS, have been able to slow the spread of the virus by changing their sexual behavior, including limiting partners, delaying sex and using…

An HIV-positive man has been arrested in India’s western state of Gujarat after his wife accused him of concealing his disease for over four years, police said on…

Offering free HIV tests instead of charging a small fee is more cost-effective at preventing HIV infections and draws in three times as…

HIV, the virus which leads to AIDS and which affects 40 million people across the world, has been seen in 3D detail for the first time by Oxford scientists and their colleagues in…

China’s AIDS epidemic shows no signs of abating with an estimated 70,000 new HIV infections occurring in 2005, according to a report released by the Chinese Ministry of…

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania have shown that race/ethnicity is a predictor of plasma lipids in patients with HIV-1 on HAART (highly active…

Argentina’s Health Ministry has announced that in partnership with the Brazilian government they plan to produce their own anti-AIDS drugs in an effort to lower the cost of…

An international team of AIDS researchers at Johns Hopkins and other institutions has found that a once-daily combination of three antiretroviral drugs works better as an initial…

Scientists have found that some of the ‘friendly bacteria’ found in yoghurt can be genetically modified to release a drug that blocks HIV infection.

They say in the…

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced on Thursday an initiative with nine drug companies he said would cut the cost of HIV/AIDS testing and treatment in 50 developing countries and help save…

Reductions in the amount of HIV in the blood that occur during the initial period of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) predicts the likelihood of survival up to six…

Companies around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about AIDS, with 46 percent now expecting some impact on their operations in the next five years, according to a…