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VOICE, an HIV prevention trial that has been evaluating two antiretroviral (ARV)-based approaches for preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in women –…

Three prospective school teachers have appealed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to end discrimination against people with HIV after they said they were wrongly denied teaching jobs because their…

I went to visit my mother this week and it was amazing. It has taken me 26 years of therapy, 12-step work, and much soul searching to come to the place where…

HIV is coated in sugars that usually hide the virus from the immune system. Newly published research reveals how one broadly neutralizing HIV antibody actually uses part…

HIV-infected patients are at increased risk for cancer as a result of both their impaired immune system and lifestyle factors, such as smoking, according…

More people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for…

In sub-Saharan Africa, couples in long-term relationships where one partner is HIV-positive and the other is HIV-negative (HIV serodiscordant couples) could benefit from anti-AIDS drugs…

‘Contagion’ is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis. For hundreds of people in an increasingly chaotic society, the word has a deadlier meaning.

The United States set a new direction for its global AIDS campaign on Tuesday, emphasizing HIV-fighting drugs that can prevent new infections to bring the goal of “an…

Using highly potent antibodies isolated from HIV-positive people, researchers have recently begun to identify ways to broadly neutralize the many possible subtypes of HIV. Now, a team led by biologists at the California…

India’s Aurobindo Pharma has become the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to make HIV/AIDS treatments more widely available to the poor, paving the way…

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have modified HIV in a way that makes it no longer able to suppress the immune system. Their work, they say in a report published online…

A new computational approach has predicted numerous human proteins that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) requires to replicate itself. These discoveries “constitute a powerful resource for experimentalists who desire…

University of Utah researchers have discovered a new class of compounds that stick to the sugary coating of the AIDS virus and inhibit it from infecting cells – an early step toward a…

Researchers testing a potential new gene therapy for HIV/AIDS say they are excited by early results that represent significant progress towards a “functional cure” for the disease. They have…

An early stage trial of Sangamo BioSciences Inc’s HIV treatment found that the gene therapy reduced levels of the virus and even eliminated it in one patient with a…

A 1994 study showed that out of a total population of 14,000 federal prisoners 120 were infected with HIV. But AIDS activists believe that for every prisoner who has tested positive for HIV and…

Prisoners have a constitutional right to health care that people “on the outside” do not have. Under the Eighth Amendment, prisoners are entitled to protection from “cruel and unusual” punishment, and to…

As noted above, one quarter of HIV-positive people in the United States have spent time in the correctional system. Connecting released prisoners to community resources is a critical opportunity and responsibility…

Means of prevention of HIV transmission, and their use in prisons, always have provoked controversy and implementation of divergent policies. Prisons historically have approached prevention of HIV either by quarantine and segregation or…

HIV in prisons raises a number of issues that do not exist for the general community; one of these is mandatory HIV antibody testing. The earliest public policy debates on HIV in prisons focused…

The prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection among prisoners approaches 40%, and far exceeds that of HIV in prison. Coinfection with the 2 viruses, which therefore is exceptionally common in prisoners,…

Prisons and jails, designed to confine and punish people (many of whom are poor and lack influential outside advocates), frequently fail to provide the level of health services required by patients with…

AIDS deaths among prisoners have become less frequent. However, in the 1980s, the time from AIDS diagnosis until death was shortened to 42% (in 1986) and then 66%…

Introduction
Prisoners are at exceptional risk for infection with HIV because of the association of injection drug use with incarceration. Women prisoners who have practiced prostitution, which frequently is associated…