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Truvada Drug Trials Signal 'Turning Point' In AIDS Epidemic -- USA Today A trio of new studies highlights the promise and challenges...

The Global Epidemic the U.S. Forgot -- Yahoo News/ABC Like a brush fire, The HIV/AIDS epidemic has spread across the world over the last 30 ...

Island-specific strains of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which infects monkeys such as the Bioko Drill, revealed the virus has be...

From The Independent: Mass prescription of anti-retroviral drugs could eradicate the disease within 40 years, scientist says. Testing everyo...

From Times Online: The global Aids epidemic could be contained within just five years by testing everybody in high-risk regions and immediat...

From Reuters: Study solves puzzle that eluded scientists for 20 years. * Finding should help development of new HIV/AIDS medicines * Allows ...

A supply of antiretroviral drugs is prepared for free distribution to HIV patients at the Integrated HIV Service Unit at the Cipto Mangunkus...

From The Independent: Scientists have made a major advance in understanding the treatment of HIV which could see life-saving drugs extended ...

From Time Magazine: (MARIETTA, Pa.) — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infe...

From Time Magazine: (GENEVA) — In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the...

From The Telegraph: Aids is now generally acknowledged to be caused by HIV which was originally transferred to humans from chimpanzees from ...

From Times Online: The search for an HIV vaccine has taken a major step forward with the discovery of a potential Achilles heel of the virus...

A gorilla at a park in Rwanda in 2004 From AFP: PARIS — French virologists on Sunday said they had found a new subtype of the AIDS virus tha...

In this May 7, 2009 photo, patients with HIV/AIDS wait to be attended at the Partners in Health hospital in Cange, in central Haiti. Haitian...

This map depicts the spread of HIV in Europe (Image: Dimitrios Paraskevis et al., Retrovirology, 2009) From New Scientist: HIV's Europe...

From The Telegraph: A Nobel prize-winning French researcher who co-discovered the virus that leads to Aids but sparked controversy after his...

Rendering of HIV infecting a cell. (Credit: iStockphoto/Sebastian Kaulitzki) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2009) — HIV is evolv...

From Reuters: BEIJING (Reuters) - The AIDS virus became the top deadly infectious disease in China last year for the first time, killing 6,8...

Bone-marrow cell MedicalRF.com / Getty From Time Magazine: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a pathogen so wily and protean that res...

HIV-infected T cells. (Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Tom Folks, NIAID) HIV/AIDS Pandemic Began Around 1900, Earlier Than Previously Thought; Urban...