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HIV plagues more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization, and efforts to develop a vaccine against the virus have achieved limited success.

A California hospital is contacting some 300 morbidly obese patients after learning that they may have been exposed to hepatitis or HIV by poorly cleaned instruments used in…

Women with HIV infection, who tend to be urban and poor, get less benefit from drugs for the disease if they smoke, regardless of how much they smoke, according…

In July 2005, the race to find a vaccine that would stem the worldwide rate of 13,000 new cases of HIV infection each day moved from competition among research institutions…

Researchers have been puzzled over why HIV-positive patients who have periodic, built in interruptions in their drug therapy reach a point where the therapy no…

The skin manifestations of HIV infection have changed in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the combination drug therapy introduced to combat the virus in the mid-1990s,…

Rapidly growing numbers of HIV-infections in Russia has prompted President Vladimir Putin to order officials to do more to inform Russians about the dangers of HIV/AIDS.

Despite added funds…

According to the researchers if current trials are satisfactory, a safe and effective gel which protects women from the AIDS virus may be available by 2010.

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A study of men who became HIV-positive while incarcerated in Georgia prisons show that two activities - male-male sex and tattooing - increase the risk of HIV infection…

Several hundred Kenyan AIDS activists took to the streets of Nairobi on Thursday to protest at the killing of an HIV-infected boy, whom they say was hacked with a…

Police in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai broke up a news conference by a group of haemophiliacs who say they contracted HIV/AIDS through contaminated blood transfusions, an activist said…

Liver disease and death rates are worse with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection on top of HIV infection than with just HIV or HCV, especially among white patients, according…

Combining anti-AIDS drugs, an antibiotic and bed nets treated with insecticide could cut the rate of malaria infections in people infected with HIV by up to 95 percent, researchers said…

Researchers have been puzzled over why HIV-positive patients who have periodic, built in interruptions in their drug therapy reach a point where the therapy no longer reduces their viral…

African leaders have launched a drive to halt new HIV infections, saying prevention may be the best remaining hope to stop the AIDS pandemic from cutting an ever-deeper swathe…

An antibiotic commonly used to treat a variety of serious infections may also help prevent dementia in HIV patients, according to a test-tube study of human brain cells by…

India reported a rise in HIV infections in 2005, a top health official said on Friday, with more than 5.2 million people now thought to be living with…

An antibiotic commonly used to treat a variety of serious infections may also help prevent dementia in HIV patients, according to a test-tube study of human brain…

The U.S. government’s emphasis on abstinence in a program to fight AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean is hampering prevention efforts in the countries it aims to help, congressional…

A University of Toronto Indo-Canadian study reports a remarkable one-third decline in new HIV infections in the worst hit regions of India, indicating that with condom use and awareness…

In Egypt, HIV and AIDS happen to other people; namely foreigners, the promiscuous, drug addicts and generally the morally corrupt, who should be avoided in case they infect you with…

Nearly 800 poor Americans are waiting for AIDS medications from government-funded programs that serve as the last resort for many patients who cannot afford costly treatments, according…

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that an HIV-1 accessory protein called Vpr destroys the host cell’s ability to survive by binding…

Nearly 2,000 babies are born with HIV infection each day because their mothers do not get the treatment needed to stop transmission of the virus, the World Health Organisation…

The United Nations called on governments on Friday to take immediate steps to better protect children from HIV/AIDS and ensure better treatment for those infected.

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