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Researchers discover a genetic variant found almost exclusively in people of African descent that may increase the chances of developing AIDS
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.
A New York City plan to test a borough's entire adult population for HIV is meeting resistance from health workers
A three-year initiative will seek to give HIV tests to everyone in the Bronx from age 18 to 64, the New York City Department of Health announced Thursday.
Doctors thought that by treating herpes, they could also cut a person's HIV risk. But a new study found the assumption may have been wrong
She burst on the music scene as one-third of Destiny's Child, the highest-selling female group of all time.
Younger gay men have stopped talking about AIDS and that's not a good -- and certainly not a safe -- thing. Now public health officials are fighting back
I was born in 1981, about the same time as the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In this limited amount of time, AIDS has grown into the worst public health crisis in human history.
South Africa's health minister said Thursday that HIV infection rates among pregnant women declined for the second straight year and claimed it was proof of the success of government policies
In Klong Toey, a Bangkok district between a highway and the Chao Phraya River, families of four share motorbikes, street vendors sell residents pouches of food, and doors of homes are open to the outside. A salesman on a bike cart sells broomsticks, while motorcycle taxi drivers, dressed in orange vests, wait at a corner.
Researchers discover a genetic variant found almost exclusively in people of African descent that may increase the chances of developing AIDS
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.
A New York City plan to test a borough's entire adult population for HIV is meeting resistance from health workers
A three-year initiative will seek to give HIV tests to everyone in the Bronx from age 18 to 64, the New York City Department of Health announced Thursday.
Doctors thought that by treating herpes, they could also cut a person's HIV risk. But a new study found the assumption may have been wrong
She burst on the music scene as one-third of Destiny's Child, the highest-selling female group of all time.
Younger gay men have stopped talking about AIDS and that's not a good -- and certainly not a safe -- thing. Now public health officials are fighting back
I was born in 1981, about the same time as the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In this limited amount of time, AIDS has grown into the worst public health crisis in human history.
South Africa's health minister said Thursday that HIV infection rates among pregnant women declined for the second straight year and claimed it was proof of the success of government policies
In Klong Toey, a Bangkok district between a highway and the Chao Phraya River, families of four share motorbikes, street vendors sell residents pouches of food, and doors of homes are open to the outside. A salesman on a bike cart sells broomsticks, while motorcycle taxi drivers, dressed in orange vests, wait at a corner.
As the room echoes with R&B music, students from Clark Atlanta, Morehouse and Spelman colleges laugh, talk and work on brightly colored pieces of cloth on long tables.
The House voted 308-116 Wednesday to more than triple, to $50 billion a year over the next five years, the money available for a program fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other stricken areas of the world
A Florida-based company's artificial immune system promises to make testing of new vaccines faster, cheaper and safer
On his trip, the President highlights his success in fighting AIDS -- but avoids hot spots where his legacy is more vexed
House Republican leader John Boehner and other Republicans warned on Thursday that a successful program to combat AIDS in Africa would be in jeopardy if Democrats move ahead with plans to make changes that he said would support abortions
Swiss researchers have suggested that some people with HIV can safely have unprotected sex. Why AIDS experts say that's an irresponsible, high-risk statement
Despite a lack of conclusive scientific evidence, some people are already using antiretrovirals as preventives, hoping to halt HIV transmission during risky sex
A research team in Texas used a common antiretroviral drug to halt the transmission of HIV in lab mice engineered to behave like humans
Tablets of the drug etravirine were approved Friday by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of HIV infection in adults who have failed treatment with other antiretrovirals.
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee refused to retract a statement he made in 1992 calling for the isolation of AIDS patients.
Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk."
Federal health officials are revising their estimate of how many people are infected by HIV each year, and advocacy groups say the number could rise by 35 percent or more
Surrounded by some of the biggest names in music, former South African President Nelson Mandela sounded another call to arms Saturday in the battle against HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has seen HIV and AIDS evolve from a mystery disease of the 1980s to an international health catastrophe to a disease that many consider a chronic but manageable condition.
U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday stressed the role of faith-based groups in the fight against AIDS, calling the struggle one of conscience and morals on the eve of World AIDS Day.
Sen. Hillary Clinton would make a major change to President Bush's AIDS program if she were in the White House, she said this week in announcing her global strategy to combat AIDS.
Students will learn about the history of the AIDS pandemic and the status of AIDS in the United States. Students will create ways to inform various demographic groups in the U.S. about the risk of HIV/AIDS.
World AIDS Day is observed around the globe on December 1. Since the first World AIDS Day in 1988, governments, organizations and charities have worked to raise awareness of the global AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Use the information in this One-Sheet to provide students with an overview about HIV and AIDS.
Actress Ashley Judd proudly declares that her most meaningful professional role hasn't been on screen or stage -- it's been her work as the "global ambassador" for YouthAIDS, a worldwide HIV/AIDS education and prevention effort.
The number of people around the world living with the virus that causes AIDS is actually nearly seven million fewer than previous estimates, according to the United Nations.
The market for treatment of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is mutating as rapidly as the virus itself, and drug industry heavyweight GlaxoSmithKline could find its lead position in jeopardy.
A global survey about people's perception of AIDS reveals there's still a lot of confusion and misinformation about the disease
Merck's promising AIDS vaccine candidate turned out to be an absolute failure in trials, but it may still pave the way for future success
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first of a new class of HIV drugs that attacks the virus in a different way.
A promising experimental vaccine to prevent the AIDS virus has failed in a crucial experiment, with volunteers becoming infected with HIV anyway, leading the drug developer to halt the study.
FDA advisors voted unanimously in support of an experimental HIV drug from Merck, according to the company and the government agency.
FDA advisers believe that an experimental HIV drug from Merck is safe and effective, based on documents released by the agency.
Jesus Aguais was working as an AIDS counselor for Latino patients when a woman from his native Venezuela entered his New York medical center office with a desperate plea.
Officials in Papua New Guinea are investigating claims by an HIV-positive woman that people with AIDS were buried alive by their relatives when they became too sick to care for, an official said Tuesday.
South Africa's health department said on Tuesday it has recalled 20 million potentially defective condoms approved by an official accused of taking bribes from a manufacturer.
South African President Thabo Mbeki shrugged off opposition calls to fire his health minister on Monday after a newspaper reported she is an alcoholic and still drinking despite having a liver transplant.
President Mbeki fires the health minister who has tried to bring some sense to the nation's war against the disease
The government approved a novel drug Monday to help patients with the AIDS virus who are running out of options, while acknowledging lingering questions about the pills' long-term effects
The trafficking of women to work as prostitutes is likely a key factor in the spread of HIV/AIDS across South Asia, according to a study
New HIV infections still dramatically outpace efforts in poor nations to bring treatment to patients, health officials said
Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. said Thursday second-quarter profit rose 54 percent as HIV testing campaigns helped spur demand for its drugs that combat the AIDS-causing virus.
Eight trailblazing scientists who are about to change your life.
Libya's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with HIV
Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that U.S. health regulators will approve its novel AIDS drug called maraviroc once certain conditions have been met, although the world's biggest drugmaker did not elaborate on what was necessary to obtain outright approval.
Development campaigners have criticized a pledge by the leaders of the world's richest nations on Friday to give $60 billion to fight diseases such as AIDS in Africa.
President Bush asked Congress on Wednesday to triple the funding for his international AIDS initiative and extend the program an additional five years.
Gay men remain banned for life from donating blood, the government said Wednesday, leaving in place -- for now -- a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of HIV through transfusions
When Narisara Panya's husband died of AIDS seven years ago after returning to Thailand from a construction job abroad, it was devastating. With only a small plot of land that didn't always yield en...
FDA advisers on Tuesday unanimously supported the speedy approval of an experimental HIV anti-viral from Pfizer.
Biotech developer Gilead Sciences Inc. reported first-quarter earnings and revenue Wednesday that beat analysts' expectations.
The biotech Gilead could emerge as one of the top performers in the drug industry when it reports earnings on Wednesday, thanks to its fast-growing HIV drug franchise.
CNN's TALK ASIA is granted special access to Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), at her first public appearance in Singapore. She joins CNN's Anjali Rao for an in-depth discussion on avian flu, HIV AIDS and other global public-health emergencies.
At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake syrup.
Merck and Pfizer are giving AIDS patients something to hope for: a new generation of experimental drugs that could prolong their lives.
This week, members of Big Pharma will lift the curtain on what could be the next generation of HIV drugs.
Dr. Anthony Fauci got goose bumps when he began connecting the dots in the early 1980s of gay men suffering from an unknown disorder in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and New York.
Twenty-five years and 25 million deaths after the first AIDS diagnosis in San Francisco, drug companies are still looking for the Holy Grail in HIV research: a vaccine that would prevent infection.
Amid the haunting stories of whole African communities struck by HIV/AIDS and gloomy statistics showing there are 39.5 million suffering from the disease globally, there have been some positive developments to usher in World AIDS Day.
Friday marks World AIDS Day and once again the impact of the disease is highlighted around the world.
In a country plagued by AIDS, a doctor in this remote industrial area of Taung, South Africa, is quietly providing life-prolonging drugs and hope for people who are HIV-positive.
To see white-haired Father Angelo D'Agostino, an 80-year-old Jesuit and doctor, you would almost certainly underestimate his strengths.
Some 39.5 million people are living with AIDS worldwide, according to a U.N. report released on Tuesday. "This year's report gives us real cause for concern," said U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot, who warned the "global epidemic is growing in all areas."
World AIDS Day is observed around the globe on December 1. Since the first World AIDS Day in 1988, international governments, organizations and charities have worked to raise awareness of the global AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Use the information in this Extra! to provide students with an overview about HIV and AIDS.
Bristol-Myers Squibb could gain a badly needed boost to its public image with a new AIDS drug that analysts are calling a potential billion-dollar blockbuster.
Most Americans should get tested for the virus that causes AIDS, the government said Thursday, giving a lift to the stock of a leading maker of HIV tests.
On the top floor of a drab apartment building on the edge of New Delhi, Ram Meher, 35, is taking his AIDS medicine, as he has every day for the past three years. Meher is a struggling wheat and sug...
When the black SUV crested the hill and stopped near a cluster of low buildings in the desolate Rwandan village of Rwinkwavu, a crowd of people cheered and the cameras started to roll. Showtime. Pa...
Tens of thousands of Kenyans lined the streets of Kisumu on Saturday, giving U.S. Sen. Barack Obama a hero's welcome as he arrived to visit the nearby village where his late father and grandfather lived.
When most people learn they are HIV positive it is a very private moment, and for Tom Donohue it was no different, at first.
"Act Up! Fight Back! Fight AIDS!
During the 25 years of the AIDS epidemic, much of the focus has been on developing a vaccine or treatment, and prevention has sometimes seemed to take a back seat. But this week at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the tables are turning.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, leaders in worldwide anti-AIDS efforts, had praise Monday for President Bush's initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, on the first full day of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
The next time someone tells you that an unfettered free market can solve all of our social problems, ask them why it is taking so long to develop a vaccine to combat the worst epidemic since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
All day and all night at the factory that makes Durex condoms in an industrial suburb of Bangkok, young Thai women grab handfuls of pink-ribbed condoms, stretch them one at a time between their fin...
AIDS invaded our consciousness 25 years ago. A whole generation around the world has now grown up knowing only a world with AIDS.
The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved the first once-daily pill for fighting AIDS, according to the the drug's makers, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences.
A triple-combination drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead could soon be approved for AIDS patients, according to a report.
Joana crawled toward me on her skeletal elbows and knees, each movement a painful reminder of the fact that she was dying.
It's not the kind of milestone one wants to celebrate. On June 5, the 25th anniversary of the first published case of what was later identified as AIDS, an estimated 40 million people around the wo...
In Bethlehem, PA., on the very lot where Bethlehem Steel workers once shaped molten metal, a small team of mostly middle-aged women, dressed in lab coats and hairnets, now assembles a slender, five...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recently recommended that tests for HIV be extended to all patients entering hospitals and clinics, marking a watershed moment in the nation's fight against the virus that causes AIDS.
Former President Clinton says the world must make a "real commitment" in fighting the AIDS epidemic by getting medication to the most urgent areas and by promoting health care, awareness and prevention of the disease.
AIDS has killed more than 25 million people across the globe since 1981, when the disease was first recognized. Last year alone, nearly 3 million people died of AIDS.
It's early in the morning in the Botswanan capital of Gaberone. Seven-year-old Mercy Banyekitse is taking her daily dose of AIDS cocktails, the miracle drugs that have prolonged the lives of tens of thousands of Botswanans infected with HIV.
About 8,000 people die of AIDS every day. Another 6,000 people between ages 15 and 24 contract HIV on a daily basis.
If you want more information on the AIDS crisis, these Web sites provide useful information.
Consider the FORTUNE 1,000 as a very long ladder. The companies near the top are duly celebrated. But drop down a ways and you'll find new names jostling to be America's great corporations of the ...
When M. Smith learned she had AIDS in the early 1990's, she figured it was a death sentence. "It was mind-numbing," Smith says.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has lent his support to compulsory HIV testing of people in developing countries with high levels of infection.
Merck is working on an AIDS drug that isn't likely to make much money, but it might, just might, help it cast off that bad Vioxx image.
Imagine a world without HIV. If that seems farfetched, then try to imagine there's an HIV vaccine.
Former President Bill Clinton announced more deals with pharmaceutical companies to provide cheaper AIDS tests and drugs -- a plan that could save developing countries tens of millions of dollars.
The Libyan Supreme court has overturned the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus, according to Libya's official news agency.
Thursday is World AIDS Day, and scores of experimental drugs are in development to treat the deadly virus afflicting nearly 40 million people worldwide, an industry group said Wednesday.
HIV and AIDS is considered "the greatest risk to world health today" by residents of Britain, France and Germany, according to a survey carried out on behalf of CNN and TIME.
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