Should U.S. taxpayers be funding research involving Thai prostitutes?

Republican Representative Darrell Issa does not think so. He announced on Friday he had amended one version of healthcare reform…

Giving daily antiretroviral syrup to breastfeeding infants or treating their HIV-infected mothers with highly active antiretroviral drugs is safe and effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission through breast…

Although the AIDS virus (HIV-1) entered the human population through chimpanzees, scientists have long believed that chimpanzees don’t develop AIDS. But a new study from an international team, including University of Minnesota…

A new technique that detects the HIV virus early and monitors its development without requiring refrigeration may make AIDS testing more accessible in sub-Saharan Africa.

According to…

In a report released Monday, US researchers say they have “compelling evidence” that three infants became infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by eating food prechewed by…

A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania reports new evidence refuting a popular hypothesis about the highly publicized failure in 2007 of…

Early initiation of lifesaving antiretroviral therapies should be the standard of care for all HIV-infected patients, even those in countries with limited medical and…

Circumcision may help protect men from the AIDS virus but it does not protect the wives and female partners of infected men, researchers reported on Thursday.

The disappointed researchers…

Prolonged use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat people infected with both HIV and hepatitis B (HBV) helps to better control the hepatitis B infection and…

One of the continuing mysteries of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is why women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute…

A study by a bi-national team of global health researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, examining HIV…

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have devised a laboratory test for predicting whether microbicides against HIV are safe for human use. The…

New research hints that the social and sexual networks of Black gay men, constrained by the preferences and attitudes of non-Black gay men, may explain the risk…

A Web-based game could help educate teenagers with HIV infection on how to avoid transmitting the virus, a pilot study suggests.

The game, dubbed +CLICK (Positive Click), allows users to navigate through…

Black gay men have less choice when it comes to sexual partners than other groups and, as a result, their sexual networks are closely knit. These tightly interconnected…

Using methods of reproductive technology, pregnancy can be safely achieved in HIV serodiscordant couples - couples in which one member is HIV-positive and the other is not, according to findings from…

An analysis of data from 34 states suggests that many people still do not undergo HIV testing until late into the course of infection, when treatments may have limited effectiveness.

A previously healthy teenager shows up at the doctor’s office with a sore throat, fever, aches and general malaise. Routine blood tests are normal, an HIV test comes…

Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have developed a game for HIV-positive youth, +CLICK, designed to reduce secondary transmission of the virus.

+CLICK was developed by Christine…

A discovery by a team of Canadian and American researchers could provide new ways to fight HIV-AIDS. According to a new study published in…

There have been 16 unpublicized cases of HIV among porn actors since a 2004 outbreak made headlines, Los Angeles health officials said on Friday, a disclosure that was likely…

Determinants of knowledge of HIV status in South Africa: results from a population-based HIV survey

Over 30% of women and men in the South African national HIV…

Latent HIV genes can be ‘smoked out’ of human cells. The so-called ‘shock and kill’ technique, described in a preclinical study in BioMed Central’s open access journal…

Headed up the highway on a 60-mile roundtrip from his home in a small Vermont town, Jonathan Heins is on a weekly run to pick up the multiple drugs…

New HIV therapies have prolonged lives and improved health for patients with HIV, but the treatments have also brought the longer-term effects of the disease into…