Higher risk profiles account for the high rates of HIV infection among injection drug users who participate in needle exchange programs, not participation in the program itself, according to researchers…

The primary targets of HIV-1 infection in the human vagina have been definitively identified in a new study published in the February 2007 issue of the journal Immunity,…

Smoking cannabis daily can significantly reduce the chronic nerve pain experienced by many HIV-infected patients, according to results of a trial conducted at the University of California, San Francisco.

A new study suggests the effects of long-standing, undiagnosed HIV infection are hanging over a generation of adolescents in Zimbabwe, causing organ damage, chronic ill health,…

An international study led by Johns Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia along with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia from strokes…

While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely…

Despite the success of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART), people with HIV may still be at higher risk for nutritional deficiencies and abnormalities. In two different studies, researchers at…

India’s Andhra Pradesh state, which has the country’s largest number of HIV cases, is set to become the first to make it mandatory for couples to take a HIV test…

An experimental antiretroviral drug designated “MK-0518” rapidly achieves sharp reductions in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) levels, and may offer the prospect of single-drug treatment for patients with HIV…

Using hormonal contraception does not appear to increase women’s overall risk of contracting the AIDS virus, according to a U.S. National Institutes of Health study published on Thursday.

The study, published…

Nearly 300 U.S. physicians, government health officials and HIV/AIDS advocates on Wednesday gathered in Washington, D.C., for a two-day meeting that focuses on new approaches to expanding HIV testing in the…

A new evidence review is arming local health agencies with the most effective ways of stopping the spread of HIV -  role-playing, better personal communication and proper condom use, for…

A man in the U.S. infected with HIV, who knowingly exposed three women to the virus, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.

A jury has found…

HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and, most worrying, in countries like Uganda and Thailand that had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS,…

Findings may provide important clues for vaccine development

How well an individual’s immune system controls HIV during the earliest phases of infection appears to depend on…

Although there is “no easy fix” for HIV/AIDS in the U.S., “refocusing our sights on improved outcomes and developing a comprehensive strategic plan to achieve them” would be a…

“HIV Screening in Health Care Settings: Public Health and Civil Liberties Conflict?” Journal of the American Medical Association: Lawrence Gostin, associate dean at the Georgetown University Law Center, in the Oct.…

In a first-of-its-kind study, UCLA researchers have shown that segments of the HIV-infected population who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care - and yet are most in…

Georgia health officials have launched a new bilingual initiative that aims to increase HIV/AIDS awareness in the state’s Hispanic community and educate residents about HIV…

The Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative has trained 10 HIV-positive people in Lesotho to help doctors, nurses and pharmacists cope with treating people with HIV/AIDS in a…

Injection drug use (IDU) rates and HIV rates in some countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) are skyrocketing.

The epidemic of injection drug use…

South Africa, burdened with one of the world’s worst AIDS crises, should institute mandatory HIV tests through employers, banks and medical insurance programmes, a senior AIDS doctor said…

AIDS in China has spread beyond high-risk groups such as injecting drug users, prostitutes and homosexuals and the country is becoming “like Africa” in how the virus is transmitted, a…

A new HIV study shows how competition among the human immune system’s T cells allows the virus to escape destruction and eventually develop into full-blown AIDS.

The study, which…

It is estimated that at the end of 2003 there were more than 37.8 million persons living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and that over 1 million of these persons resided…