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Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding…

HIV carriers should not be allowed to marry, to avoid having sick children, a top Malaysian politician was quoted on Monday as saying.

“Somebody who is very sick like that should…

The success of treating HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy has been a good news, bad news proposition. Individuals with HIV and AIDS are living longer due to the success of antiretroviral…

A new study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has clarified how two major variants of HIV differ in their ability to cause…

Several hundred African anti-AIDS campaigners paraded giant puppets of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday to demand that they deliver promised funds for…

Some HIV patients suffer from terrible neurological disease. Then, there are others that never have any cognitive problems at all. The same virus, but…

On World AIDS Day, the American College of Physicians (ACP) is giving doctors a call-to-action to routinely encourage HIV screening to all of their patients older than 13 years.…

Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human blood cells slows down multiplication of the AIDS virus, according to biochemists.

“We have found that increasing the expression…

The Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has lost valuable ground by ignoring for years the contribution of long-term concurrent relationships…

The risk of non-AIDS cancer is higher for individuals infected with HIV than for the general population, according to a meta-analysis presented here at the American Association…

Chile’s public health system may have failed to notify at least 512 people that they were infected with HIV, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo said on Thursday amid a…

Like other kinds of cells, immune cells lose the ability to divide as they age because a part of their chromosomes known as a telomere becomes progressively shorter…

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Francisco, have revealed new hope for HIV treatment with the discovery…

Education has found its way onto the soccer fields of North Carolina – in the form of a social experiment that may have all the right ingredients to change…

Despite ongoing efforts to educate the public about HIV, a new study by researchers from UCLA, the RAND Corp., Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston has…

Earlier treatment may be better when it comes to taking drugs for the AIDS virus, researchers reported on Sunday.

Patients were more than 70 percent less likely to die…

One in every 50 people screened for a suspected sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital was found to be infected with HIV…

Nature study reveals long-sought atomic structure of key enzyme and suggests new approach for drug development

Humans have a built-in weapon against HIV, but until recently no one knew how to unlock its…

As many as one quarter of HIV patients have drug resistance, limiting their treatment options and raising their risk for AIDS and death. Now, maraviroc, the first of a new…

Blogs allow African Americans to discuss HIV and AIDS in an unfiltered way that is both public and private, according to a Penn State researcher, and this exploration may lead…

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced 295 host cell factors that are involved in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The study, published in the Oct. 3…

New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial…

New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, not during the 1930s, as previously…

Widowed at 30, HIV-positive Chhaya Tope had resigned herself to a life of loneliness, but a website for Indians afflicted with AIDS has given her another chance at love.

Tope…

In a computer-based model evaluating the benefits and costs of three types of HIV disease monitoring strategies, early initiation of antiretroviral therapy and monitoring using…