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In September 2007, a phase II HIV-1 vaccine trial was abruptly halted when researchers found that the vaccine may have promoted, rather than prevented, HIV infection. A new study by a team of researchers at the Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics in France shows how the vaccine could have enhanced HIV infection. The study, lead by Matthieu Perreau, will be published online on November 3 of the Journal of Experimental medicine.

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...

It started innocently enough. JL began to feel itching around the anus. Naturally he thought it was his hemorrhoids acting up again. As time passed, the itching gave way to...

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...

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...

Loyola University researcher Dr. Michael Koller advises us all that now is the time to get your flu shot. Once you've had the flu it's not something you will soon...

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...

The African Broadcast Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDS -- a coalition of broadcasters from 35 African countries -- has had "several successes since its inception three years ago," which is "good news" in the fight against HIV, columnist Guy Berger writes in a Mail & Guardian opinion piece.

AFP - Malawi, one of Africa's poorest nations, has received 20 million dollars (15.4 million euros) from the Global Fund to boost its AIDS and HIV treatment programme, a senior official said on Wednesday.