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Americans enrolled in the U.S. government-run Medicare health insurance program will now be covered for tests that screen for HIV, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees…

Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill…

Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill…

Newly infected AIDS patients rarely know they have the virus and can continue their high-risk behavior just when they are the most infectious, Dutch researchers reported.

They said…

Researchers conducting clinical trials in Rwanda have concluded that the risk of postnatal transmission is minimal in HIV-positive mothers undergoing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) while breastfeeding. The…

In people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, high-risk behavior, HIV infection itself, as well as late initiation and early discontinuation of anti-HIV therapy all…

Researchers from UCLA’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research surveyed 600 Hispanics recruited from Los Angeles County sexually transmitted disease clinics, community-based organizations and needle-exchange…

The immune systems of HIV patients who are obese don’t respond to antiretroviral therapy as well as do those of people of normal weight, according to a study conducted…

An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, up from 33 million in 2007, but more people are living longer due to the availability of…

Returning to the timeline traced by the International AIDS Conferences, the 2000 meeting was held in Durban, South Africa. This was the first time that a resource-limited country had played host.  It…

The response to HIV and AIDS can largely be characterized as the identification and targeting of key populations that are believed to be at increased risk of exposure to HIV.…

Whereas stories of the earliest activism on HIV began with the voices of people living with HIV in America and Europe, so this arm of the story begins with people who…

In the five years since the results of the Global Survey on HIV/AIDS and Disability were released,  research on people with disabilities and their experiences with…

Issues of accessibility are beginning to be addressed.  For example,  the International AIDS conferences in 2006 and 2008 were criticized for the lack of accessibility for people with disabilities…

Several significant policy efforts related to this field have taken place or are underway. 

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities,…

Although the two fields may have unique histories, there is now evidence that they are becoming increasingly integrated.  First,  we are seeing HIV organizations taking up the concerns…

The concerns of people with disabilities will increasingly be taken seriously and mainstreamed into HIV research, policy and programmes. This engagement will grow because of leadership at the grassroots level by…

From a clinical perspective, although medicine was best positioned to help contend with disease processes, it was the rehabilitation community (e.g., physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and physiatrists)  who brought…

This article provides an historic overview of the fields of disability and HIV. We describe this area of concern in terms of “fields” versus “a single field”…

Stigma and discrimination constitute one of the greatest barriers to dealing effectively with the HIV epidemic, underlying a range of human rights violations…

The AIDS virus inserts its genetic material into the genome of the infected cell. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have now shown for the first time that the virus almost…

Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases are the focus of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs. The articles, by leading global…

President Barack Obama announced on Friday that a 22-year-old ban on allowing people infected with with the AIDS virus into the United States will be lifted…

Men with larger foreskins are more likely to become infected with the AIDS virus, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that helps explain why circumcision can protect…

Randomized clinical trials conducted by researchers in Rakai, Uganda, have revealed a link between the size of foreskin surface area and the risk of male HIV acquisition. The results…