Anti-AIDS Gel Fails in Study
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The first anti-AIDS vaginal gel to make it through late-stage testing failed to stop HIV infection in a study of 6,000 South African women
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A souped-up version of a naturally occurring immune system protein can protect female monkeys from the AIDS virus, scientists have reported
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Washington - Scientists and patient advocates this week united to defend an HIV treatment against allegations that a key clinical trial of the drug was flawed.
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WASHINGTON - A National Institutes of Health official said Tuesday that an AIDS drug at the center of a controversial federal report has prevented thousands of infants from getting HIV.
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Scientists say they have found new evidence that a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses at a Libyan hospital did not deliberately infect hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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Giving women diaphragms to use in addition to condoms provides no extra protection against the AIDS virus, researchers reported on Thursday.
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A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don't use a condom.
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Clinical trials of an anti-virus gel supposed to help protect women against AIDS have been stopped after it was found that those on the treatment were more susceptible to HIV infection, the World Health Organisation said.
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A key anti-HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) drug distributed in Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if they ignore doctors&#39; orders
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A U.S.-funded study on an AIDS drug was so poorly conducted that it potentially put the lives of hundreds of mothers and babies in Uganda at risk, a government whistleblower said Tuesday.
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A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half. Tests on the new antibiotic drug in Zambia were so successful that the trial was halted early to make the drug available more quickly.
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A study commissioned by Pope Benedict on the use of condoms to fight AIDS has passed its first hurdle and is now being reviewed by top theologians for possible use in a Papal document, a cardinal said on Tuesday.
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AIDS-aware Ugandans, who use about  250,000 condoms a day, face a shortage of the product after the  government introduced new condom tests likely to cut supply  over the festive season, the Health Ministry on Friday.
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Cape Town - An Indian pharmaceutical company has withdrawn 10 of its generic Aids drugs citing flaws in the research, the Science and Development Network reports.
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A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don&#39;t use a condom.
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A study aimed at showing whether a  single dose of an AIDS drug could prevent mothers from passing  the virus to their newborns was so sloppily run that it should  be disregarded, a fired oversight expert said on Tuesday.
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A new study in Sweden raises hopes for discovering the Holy Grail of AIDS research