Ancient viral battle left people vulnerable to HIV
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A battle won by human ancestors against a virus that infected chimpanzees and other primates millions of years ago may have left people today more vulnerable to the AIDS virus, scientists said on Thursday.
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It's an Achilles' heel of HIV therapy: The AIDS virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, despite today's best medicines.
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Scientists refute a longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body's capacity to fight infection.
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An international team of researchers reported that female monkeys whose vaginal surfaces were coated with an experimental drug shortly before exposure to the simian version of HIV were protected from infection.
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Health experts say combining TB and HIV testing and treatment could save the lives of up to 500,000 HIV positive Africans a year. The World Health Organization and UNAids issued the call to a health conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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HIV-infected babies have a greater chance of survival if they receive treatment before they show signs of illness or a weakened immune system, the International AIDS Society (IAS) was told on Tuesday.
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More than 3 million people will die from AIDS this year, and nearly 40 million now have the virus that causes the disease. Those are the highest tolls in the 23-year history of this plague.
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With more than 1.8 million people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia, the epidemic poses a serious threat to the region's social and economic stability, according to the Joint United Nations Programme ...
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omen and girls are especially vulnerable to the AIDS virus and need to take steps so they don&#39;t get infected, speakers at a World AIDS Day event in Louisville said yesterday.
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Ever since Botswana recorded its first HIV case 19-years-ago, this nation has never been the same. The country has moved from the denial that marked the first few years after the discovery of the virus; the
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Health officials in New York City reveal a new highly drug-resistant strain of HIV in  a local resident.
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Scientists say they have uncovered an important clue to understanding the origins of the Aids epidemic.
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Twenty-three years after initial cases of AIDS were reported, the epidemic continues to ravage the world. The number of people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is at its highest peak, affecting 39.4 million worldwide.
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A single change in a human gene may hold  the key to preventing people living with HIV from progressing  to full-blown AIDS, researchers said on Monday.
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An international research team has identified immune-system genes that appear to play a key role in the body&#39;s defense against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Mumbai, Nov. 24: The number of women infected with HIV has gone up alarmingly in all parts of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increase in east Asia, followed by eastern Europe and central
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The number of people in Scotland diagnosed with HIV has risen to the highest quarterly total on record. Figures for July to September this year show 105 people were found to have the virus, which can lead to Aids.