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…

Americans are often sympathetic to people living with HIV/AIDS and would favor greater funding to address the domestic HIV/AIDS crisis, according to a report released Wednesday.

At the same time,…

As adolescents whose mothers had HIV and who were born with HIV become sexually active, researchers are calling for public health initiatives aimed at preventing them from passing on the…

People with HIV are at high risk from the new flu strain that the World Health Organization said is on the verge of a pandemic, the WHO…

The last decade has seen a sharp drop in HIV infections in the Dominican Republic, resulting largely from reductions in risky sexual behavior, according to a…

Infants who become infected with HIV from their mothers can have a normal immune response to childhood vaccines, provided they begin treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy in…

Two studies presented at the 104th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) show that adult circumcision reduces the risk of contracting the human…

Chinese children with AIDS, especially those from rural families, are going without treatment because their families are too poor to afford it, despite a government policy of free treatment, an activist…

From 1985 to 2007, the CD4+ cell counts seen at diagnosis in HIV-infected patients in the US have fallen, suggesting that the virus may be adapting to the host and becoming…

Mutations that help HIV hide from the immune system undermine the virus’s ability to replicate, show an international team of researchers in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Experimental…

- Patients should start taking drugs for the AIDS virus earlier to have the best chance of survival, researchers said Thursday.

An analysis of more than 45,000 people with HIV in…

Today, during the 87th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, convening at the Miami Beach Convention Center, a group of scientists from Nihon University…

Hazardous alcohol use is common among HIV-positive women, for whom excessive drinking poses special health risks, according to a new study out in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

“At…

A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS.

The Lancet in an…

A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology have for the first time captured on video…

“Who’s next for testing?” Nathalie Boittin asked on Tuesday in a crowded waiting room at the Whitman-Walker Clinic in northwest Washington.

A young black man rose and Boittin, a community…

Measuring levels of anti-HIV drugs in hair samples rather than in the blood can better predict whether they will be effective or not, U.S. investigators report in the journal AIDS.

HIV/AIDS statistics for women and girls are startling.

Nationwide, the percentage of new AIDS cases diagnosed among women more than doubled between 1990 and 2005 (the…

A group including leading academic and industry scientists has issued a challenge to researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS: find a way to effectively purge latent HIV infection and eliminate the need…

Scientists have created a strain of the human AIDS virus able to infect and multiply in monkeys, in a step toward testing future vaccines in monkeys before trying them…

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body’s defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according…