Contrary to common perception, people in sub-Saharan Africa are better than North Americans at taking their HIV medication
Breaking News - 08 August 2006
The US CDC and the WHO plan to offer HIV tests to anyone visiting their doctor - will this help everyone?
Editorial - 22 July 2006
It would be a tragedy if moral and cultural objections got in the way of tackling the virus
Editorial - 10 June 2006
The drug could help overcome the virus's growing resistance to existing drugs by disrupting the protein shield that protects its RNA
News - 08 June 2006
The rate of new infections seems to have stopped accelerating for the first time in the 25-year history of AIDS, a UN report revealed on Tuesday
Breaking News - 30 May 2006
South-eastern Cameroon has emerged as the probable crossing spot of HIV, where the disease leapt from chimps to people
News - 03 June 2006
The Bush administration's emphasis on chastity rather then condom use is undermining its own good work tackling AIDS in Africa, says Peter Gill
Comment and Analysis - 06 May 2006
In monkeys, an immune-system protein changes the shape of the virus particles, making HIV vulnerable to attack - in humans, the equivalent protein only makes things worse
Breaking News - 07 May 2006
Giving one dose of an anti-retroviral drug to HIV-infected mothers to prevent infecting their baby at birth can cause drug resistance in some women
Breaking News - 24 April 2006
An experimental therapy is being proposed that will arm the cells attacked by HIV with a combination defence against the virus
Breaking News - 08 April 2006
A rare genetic mutation that protects people against HIV infection appears to make them more vulnerable to West Nile virus
News - 21 January 2006
India is already grappling with over five million HIV infections, but the numbers seem to be declining, at least in the worst affected south
News - 08 April 2006
On World AIDS Day, governments around the globe announce their plans to fight the pandemic that continues to devastate nation after nation
Breaking News - 01 December 2005
The high cost of antiretroviral drugs spurred international research into the viability of episodic therapy – it was found to put patients at unacceptable risk
Breaking News - 19 January 2006
The 20-minute swab-based test is already being used in US clinics, but what are the ramifications of people testing themselves at home?
News - 10 November 2005
Progress has been made in tackling HIV infection in key African countries, but five million people were infected worldwide in 2005
Breaking News - 21 November 2005
40.3 million people worldwide are now living with HIV - experts call for an "unprecedented response" to try to contain the pandemic
News - 26 November 2005
Having malaria may make an HIV-positive pregnant woman more likely to pass HIV to her child, a new study suggests
Breaking News - 17 November 2005
A rare genetic mutation that gives a few people resistance to HIV infection is thousands of years old - not handed down from bubonic plague survivors
News - 12 November 2005
There is a possibility the virus is becoming less virulent, but how this would affect the progress of the pandemic or the number of people killed remains unclear
News - 29 September 2005
Swift diagnostics for HIV have long been a critical problem - the new sensor measures the quantity of key immune cells in the blood, in seconds
Technology - 04 November 2005
A South African study found that circumcision reduced the rate at which heterosexual men became infected with HIV by about 60 per cent
News - 29 October 2005
A mechanism that HIV uses to gag the immune system could be turned against diseases like diabetes, MS, and rheumatoid arthritis
News - 20 August 2005
Intravenous drug use fuels infection along the drug-trafficking routes from Afghanistan to Eastern Europe – a boom may follow, an expert warns
Breaking News - 26 July 2005
The drug has been shown to flush out and kill nearly all the HIV hiding in the bodies of three people who had been infected for a long time
News - 20 August 2005
A study into the link between catching HIV and circumcision found such a strong effect that it was stopped early to offer subjects the snip
News - 06 August 2005
The battle to keep donated blood safe has reached crisis point. What doctors need now is a new kind of weapon
Features - 23 July 2005
The cells that give rise to the human immune system have been genetically altered to make them resistant to the most common strain of HIV
News - 02 July 2005
One million people in developing countries are now receiving drugs – less than the 3 million target but double the 400,000 recipients in 2003
Breaking News - 29 June 2005
To transform itself, Africa recognises that it needs to harness the power of knowledge and innovation
News - 02 July 2005
Will the papacy ever come to terms with progress in reproductive science, or will the new pope follow in his predecessors footsteps, asks John Cornwell
Comment - 23 April 2005
Targeting a human protein which helps repair DNA damage in cells could provide a therapy to combat multi-drug resistant strains of HIV
Breaking News - 17 April 2005
Gene variants associated with fast progression to AIDS are common in people of Indian origin, finds a key group of immunologists in New Delhi
News - 16 April 2005
The law bans making cheaper copies of new drugs - but exactly what can be patented and the effect on global healthcare remains to be seen
Breaking News - 29 March 2005
The discovery of two viruses in bushmeat hunters suggests the species jump - which happened with HIV - may not be such a rare phenomenon
Breaking News - 28 February 2005
The virus is resistant to 19 of the 20 licensed drugs and its victim fell ill with AIDS extremely quickly - but experts note the case may be a one-off
Breaking News - 14 February 2005
The number of people receiving treatment rose by 75% between 2003 and 2004 - but the ultimate target of 3 million remains distant
Breaking News - 26 January 2005
Costing twenty times less than antiviral drugs, it prevents secondary infections that can kill HIV-positive children in Africa
Breaking News - 19 November 2004
There is no need to panic yet, but there are signs that HIV is fighting back against some of the main drugs now used to combat it
News - 06 November 2004
A study of the shape of HIV inhibitors reveals future approaches to beating drug resistance
Breaking News - 16 October 2004
A leading scientific journal publishes a report on a Nigerian doctor's claims, but experts express serious safety concerns
Breaking News - 28 September 2004
New strains of an HIV-like virus are circulating in wild animals and infecting people who eat them, warn experts
Breaking News - 09 August 2004
Discrimination against HIV-positive people in Asia is undermining efforts to prevent AIDS devastating the region, warns Shaoni Bhattacharya
Comment - 24 July 2004
What hope is there of stopping AIDS if rich nations won't pay up?
Comment - 17 July 2004
A NEW class of drugs could soon be available for treating people infected with HIV
News - 17 July 2004
One in three people with HIV also have TB, which is the biggest killer of AIDS patients - Nelson Mandela leads the call for action
Breaking News - 15 July 2004
Lessons learned during the SARS epidemic are driving the country's response to AIDS, reveals a Chinese health minister
Breaking News - 13 July 2004
In the "cruellest pandemic" of the AIDS crisis, 50 million children are predicted to be orphaned due to the HIV virus in sub-Saharan Africa
Breaking News - 13 July 2004
The lack of scientific, political and economic interest is "a global disgrace", says the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Breaking News - 12 July 2004
Condoms, the main scientifically proven way of preventing HIV transmission, are in woefully short supply in key regions
Breaking News - 12 July 2004
The epidemic is growing, but the pattern of spread means it could be contained and may not follow Africa's devastating path
Breaking News - 12 July 2004
A drug which stops HIV stitching itself into a cell's genome shows promise in a monkey study
Breaking News - 09 July 2004
More people than ever contracted HIV in 2003, as the epidemic takes hold in new regions, warns a major UN report
Breaking News - 06 July 2004
But only eastern Africa has seen an actual decline, and new estimates put the cost of the WHO's anti-retroviral drug plan at over $5 billion
Breaking News - 02 July 2004
A single dose of the bugs, naturally present in our mouths, could stop newborn babies from contracting HIV via their mother's milk
Breaking News - 26 May 2004
Approval of medicines eligible for the US's multi-billion-dollar global AIDS initiative could be cut from four years to six weeks
Breaking News - 17 May 2004
A new form of gene therapy has slashed replication of the HIV virus in cells from three people with drug-resistant strains
Breaking News - 13 May 2004
The method will allow health workers to focus prevention campaigns on people and in places where the risk of infection is highest
News - 01 May 2004
Once a Cinderella subject, creams that block HIV infection during sex have now become a major focus of AIDS research
News - 10 April 2004
New drugs are fine. But the real breakthrough in HIV lies elsewhere
Comment - 03 April 2004
Circumcised men are nearly seven times less likely to become infected with HIV, according to a study carried out in India
News - 03 April 2004
HIV's reputation as the ultimate escape artist has led to a cure for AIDS being seen as an impossible dream. But scientists are finding ways to eliminate the virus's hiding places one by one
Features - 03 April 2004
With vaccines a distant prospect, vaginal creams could play a key role in slowing the devastating spread of the virus
Breaking News - 23 March 2004
A new class of virus has jumped to humans through bushmeat hunting in central Africa - drawing parallels with HIV
Breaking News - 19 March 2004
Having a secondary infection with a little-understood virus appears to protect HIV patients from developing AIDS and death
Breaking News - 03 March 2004
Dirty needles play only a minor role in spreading AIDS in Africa
News - 14 February 2004
The report bolsters WHO claims that unsafe sex is by far the most important route for spreading HIV
Breaking News - 06 February 2004
AIDS researchers have launched a high-profile attack on a large US government trial of an HIV vaccine taking place in Thailand
News - 24 January 2004
By downplaying the role of dirty needles in spreading the deadly virus, has the UN missed a chance to curb the epidemic?
Breaking News - 03 December 2003
The highest global number of new infections and deaths from HIV/AIDS was seen in the last year, warns UNAIDS
Breaking News - 25 November 2003
The deadly epidemic in one of the world's worst hit countries may have reached its maximum in 2002, say researchers
Breaking News - 21 October 2003
The Catholic church is spreading the claim that condoms have holes in them that allow HIV through
News - 11 October 2003
Two different strains of HIV infecting the same woman swapped genes to form a new virus - it is bad news for vaccine researchers
Breaking News - 15 July 2003
The epidemic, Asia's biggest, is growing steadily and moving away from cities and high-risk groups
Breaking News - 25 July 2003
