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Two More Men With HIV Now Virus-Free. Is This A Cure? -- NBC Two men unlucky enough to get both HIV and cancer have been seemingly cleared o...

Monitoring of patients helps in detecting drug resistance Drug-Resistant HIV 'On Increase' In Sub-Saharan Africa -- BBC Drug-resista...

The HIV 1 virus shown under a microscope. The US FDA has approved a drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Photograph: Institut Pas...

OraQuick HIV Test Already available for use inside doctor's offices, Pennsylvania-based Orasure's quick HIV test could soon be avail...

LAURENCE KESTERSON / Staff Photographer From Philadelphia Inquirer: Last spring, Lafayette Sanders got a call from a friend who was concerne...

From Science: Powerful anti-HIV drugs have come tantalizingly close to eradicating the virus from people, driving the blood level of HIV so ...

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...

Killer T-Cells The blue blobs are killer T-cells getting ready to attack a tumor via PNAS From Popular Science: While some viruses attack t...

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

From The BBC: Greater access to anti-retroviral drugs has helped cut the death toll from HIV by more than 10% over the past five years, late...

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 the BBC: An experimental HIV vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection, researchers say. The vaccine - a combination of ...

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...

Imgae: Viral blockade: A gel, shown here stained blue, forms tendril structures at pH 7.4. The red dots are 100 nanometer particles, about...

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...

Intervention with anti-Aids drugs before symptoms appear could reduce HIV rates to under 1% in 50 years, a study claims. Photograph: Adrees ...