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Lawyers for prominent AIDS “dissident” Matthias Rath defended his attack on South Africa’s most influential activist group on Thursday, telling a court his drive against AIDS…

The World Bank signed an agreement with Vietnam on Thursday to provide a grant worth $35 million to help the country combat the   HIV/AIDS epidemic.

India, which has the second largest number of people in the world living with HIV/AIDS, said on Wednesday it had cut the growth rate of new infections…

Rich countries must do more to protect African children from   HIV/AIDS, the new head of the United Nations children’s agency said on Tuesday.

Ann Veneman said she…

Britain urged the European Union on Monday to boost the fight against AIDS by improving the availability of condoms to prevent the spread of the disease.

“I…

Three England international footballers met more than 3,000 Malawian youths on Monday urging them to step up the fight against HIV/AIDS, a pandemic that kills 10 people every…

South Africa’s most influential activist group took prominent AIDS “dissident” Matthias Rath to court on Friday to stop a campaign to vilify the group and discredit…

President Olusegun Obasanjo opened Nigeria’s first blood transfusion centre on Thursday to help stem the spread of the AIDS virus by preventing the use of contaminated blood…

United Nations aid agencies on Thursday slammed prominent AIDS “dissident” Matthias Rath for what they called his wrong and dangerous campaign against life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs.

The…

With his mother long dead and his father off with a new family, nobody comes to visit Carlos, 27, as he sits blinded by AIDS and awaiting death…

Health officials in North Carolina have found a cost-effective way to identify people whose infection with the AIDS virus is so recent that the standard screening test would…

South Africa’s health minister on Thursday criticised the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) goals on AIDS treatment and accused it of using the country as a scapegoat for…

White, wealthy and proudly gay, Judge Edwin Cameron is hardly a typical face of the AIDS pandemic ravaging southern Africa.

But Cameron, a member of South Africa’s Supreme Court…

Delayed diagnosis of HIV infection continues to be a problem among gay men in England and Wales, investigators with the Health Protection Agency’s Center for Infections in…

India, which has the world’s second largest HIV/AIDS population, plans to introduce a law to stop discrimination against people infected with the virus, the health minister said…

Most mid-sized South African companies are turning a blind eye to HIV/AIDS despite forecasts the epidemic is set to ravage the country’s workforce, a survey showed on Thursday.

More than 600 low-income AIDS patients in 11 U.S. states are on waiting lists for medicines as funding for assistance programs falls short, a report released on…

Human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus that has been linked to Cervical cancer, can lie dormant for a long time, but re-emerge if the immune system is weakened, new…