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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...

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...

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...

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...

As Cambodia's commercial sex industry increasingly moves away from brothels and into businesses such as karaoke bars and beer gardens, the country's National AIDS Authority is calling on private businesses to address unsafe sex practices in the industry, the

The anti-herpes drug acyclovir can also directly slow down HIV infection by targeting the reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme, researchers report in this week's JBC. This beneficial effect does pose a risk though, as HIV-infected cells treated with acyclovir promote the emergence of multi-drug resistant HIV variants. HIV and herpes (HSV) are two of the most common sexually transmitted diseases worldwide, and individuals frequently become co-infected with both.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute are using statistical computer methods to identify which proteins could prevent HIV infection by listening to signals from a drug instead of the virus, the Pittsburgh Tribune-review reports.