Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...

Anti-AIDS drugs may help prevent infection, if taken shortly after exposure to HIV. Now some people are considering taking these drugs before exposure to HIV as a way to prevent transmission of the ...

BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawi, which has one of the highest rates of the deadly HIV/AIDS infections, is on course to eradicate the virus, Jay Levy who co-discovered the AIDS virus 35 years ago said.

Now, the fight against HIV/AIDS is not just about governments and global health organisations anymore; it is a deeply personal one. And it is all about the choices you make, the conversations you have ...

About one-third (35 percent) of AIDS patients diagnosed with the first opportunistic infection from 1997 to 2012 in San Francisco died within five years, according to a study published in the Journal ...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - India now has the largest number of AIDS infections as the spread of the disease shows no sign of letting up a quarter-century into an epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives, ...

ATLANTA — The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have ...

AIDS has ravaged the gay community for over 26 years, and we have learned a great deal about how to survive this insidious killer. Our AIDS organizations have preached safer sex practices, and our ...

NEW DELHI — The United Nations has set an ambitious goal of zero new HIV infections and zero AIDS-related deaths by 2015 as the next stage of the war against the deadly virus, a new report said Friday ...

Sichuan has confirmed its first-ever case of HIV-2 infection, a rare strain of the virus seldom seen in China, health ...

About 42 new HIV infections are recorded among the adult and children population in the country every day, the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) ...