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NEW YORK, USA (Reuters): A hurricane hunter plane is investigating the low-pressure system about 200 miles east of the Windward Islands to determine if a depression has formed, the US national Hurrica...

A two-decade ban on people with hiv visiting or immigrating to theUnited States may end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDSand other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world.

A gene which protects against malaria increases vulnerability to hiv infection by 40%, say scientists.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gene variant that emerged thousands of years ago to protect Africans from malaria may raise their vulnerability to hiv infection but help them live longer once infected, researchers said on Wednesday.

U.S. investigators are looking into whether Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories manufactured substandard generic drugs, including HIV/AIDS medications provided to thousands of hiv-positive people in Africa, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ranbaxy under a U.S. government contract was paid 'millions of dollars' to provide low-cost antiretroviral drugs under the

A gene variant that emerged thousands of years ago to protect Africans from malaria may raise their vulnerability to hiv infection but help them live longer once infected, researchers said on Wednesday.

Vaginal microbicides currently in clinical trials may be the only weapon that will protect women against infection from hiv. Yet, under likely circumstances, these microbicides may be of more benefit to men than women, according to a new UCLA AIDS Institute study.The study, which used novel mathematical models to simulate clinical trials and population-level transmission of hiv, appears July 7 in the online issue of Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences.read more

MIAMI -- An area of low pressure located about 350 miles east of the Windward Islands may become a tropical depression later today, according to the national Hurricane Center in Miami.Satellite images...

A two-decade ban on people with hiv visiting or immigrating to the United States may end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests thatpeople of African descent are much more likely to have a genetic traitthat makes them more susceptible to infection with the hiv virus.