Prince Harry revealed his secret of feeling nervous when speaking in public on the World AIDS Day Monday to reduce stigma of HIV.
The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in China had hit 497,000 by the end of Oct., with 154,000 deaths, according to latest official figures.
Only 30 percent of Americans living with HIV have the virus under control, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The present HIV pandemic is almost certain to have begun its global spread from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an international team of researchers said Thursday.
As many as 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV globally do not know of their HIV-positive status, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said Wednesday in a report.
The child known as the " Mississippi baby," an infant seemingly cured of HIV, now has detectable levels of the virus after more than two years of not taking antiretroviral therapy, U.S. researchers said Thursday.
U.S. researchers said Thursday they have finally infected a species of monkey called pigtailed macaques with an AIDS-like disease after years of trying, a major step toward an animal model with which to study HIV-1, the virus responsible for most cases of AIDS.
U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have developed a new vaginal gel that might help protect women from HIV even it's applied three hours after sex.
U.S. researchers said Thursday that an experimental global vaccine may afford "partial protection " in monkeys against challenges with an especially deadly form of the AIDS virus, raising new hope for an effective vaccine in people.
Offering free treatment to HIV carriers who have not yet been diagnosed with AIDS has proven effective in reducing the mortality rate and virus transmission in many counties, said Ge Xianmin, an AIDS prevention official with the Guangxi health authorities.
As HIV/AIDS is spreading to more younger people in Taiwan, the island health authorities warned at Taiwan HIV Testing Month that kicked off Sunday at Taipei Main Station.
A legislation requiring real-name registration for HIV testing in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has drawn criticism from experts and AIDS patients despite officials' promises to protect patients' privacy.
A regulation to abolish HIV tests for teaching candidates in south China's Guangdong Province has stirred debate, especially as it appeared amid a series of sexual abuse scandals in Chinese schools.
A baby born with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, appears to have been cured, according to findings presented Monday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.
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