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A nationwide study headed by HIV researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle now suggests that earlier HIV treatment equates to a better prognosis in the long term. Experts...

Half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine will be shared by two researchers credited with their discovery of HIV. French researchers Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi will be honored...

This is going to sound a bit crazy but I was watching television a couple nights ago and stumbled upon a vampire movie. Like all good Hollywood vampires, they were...

A recent study published in The Lancet has found that the proportion of IV drug users that are HIV positive may exceed 40 percent in at least nine countries around...

On Friday, two Minnesota radio talk show hosts claimed that Magic Johnson faked his HIV diagnosis. The talk show hosts have rationalized that Magic must have faked his diagnosis because...

At the 20th. Annual Living with AIDS Conference in Utah, experts warn that the booming crystal meth problem is contributing to new hiv cases around the country. The growing cocaine...

Merck's antiretroviral drug Isentress suppresses levels of HIV in previously untreated patients better than the company's antiretroviral efavirenz, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Society of Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America,

Lebanon on Monday opened a three-day conference for religious leaders in the country to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS issues, the Daily Star reports. More than 60 participants attended the workshop, which was organized by the United Nations Development Program and the

HIV/AIDS programs in Burundi are unable to expand their services because of a shortage of government funding, IRIN/PlusNews reports. The National AIDS Control Council of Burundi said that in 2008, the government experienced an $11 million shortfall in the $28 million budget needed to address HIV/AIDS in the country.

The Technical review Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has recommended that Zimbabwe's Round 8 application to scale up HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis programs in the country be approved, IRIN/PlusNews reports.