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As part of an ambitious global effort to test one million people for HIV in observance of the One Million Tests World AIDS Day 2008 campaign, AHF/Cambodia CARES launched its inaugural testing effort during the annual Water Festival, the largest festival in the Cambodian calendar which marks the end of the rainy season.

The failure of the latest HIV vaccine from Merck is analysed in two Articles and a Comment published early Online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet. The vaccine failed to give any protection from HIV infection, and the usefulness of non-human models for HIV vaccine development have been called into question.

HIV is a master of disguise, able to rapidly change its identity and hide undetected in infected cells. But now, in a long-standing collaborative research effort partially-funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists from Oxford-based Adaptimmune Limited, in partnership with the Universities of Cardiff and Pennsylvania, have engineered immune cells to act as "bionic assassins" that see through HIV's many disguises.

President Bush on Wednesday received the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award in recognition of his administration's efforts to advance HIV/AIDS, health and development efforts in Africa, the AP/Washington Post reports.

Chile's new health minister, Alvaro Erazo, on Thursday said that at least 512 people nationwide have not been informed by the public health system that they tested HIV-positive and that an additional 1,364 people have not been told by private sector services that they carry the virus, the new york Times reports.

Millions of migrant workers in Southeast Asia are vulnerable to HIV because they do not have access to health services and legal or social protection, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, AFP/Yahoo! Singapore News reports. According to the report, more than 1.

Several newspapers recently profiled the case of an HIV-positive person who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia and who has had undetectable HIV viral loads for almost two years. For the procedure -- performed by German hematologist Gero Hutter of Berlin's

The voters in the state of Michigan have passed a proposal that would permit the medical use of marijuana for those people suffering from a host of debilitating diseases, including...

Title: Swollen Lymph NodesCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 11/17/2008Last Editorial review: 11/17/2008

In a year that sees the election of a new US President, the theme of World AIDS Day 2008 is "leadership". Continuing the theme from 2007, the leadership theme encourages...