If you're worried about HIV infection, you may wonder whether it's safe to have oral sex. While it's not risk-free, the chances of spreading the virus that causes AIDS are very low if you take the ...

These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into balloons to distract the kids, so small and polite, their hair neatly ...

Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. But new research is promising.HIV is "like a time bomb," said James Riley, a ...

Fewer people know about its relative ... experimental drug originally developed to treat cancer may help clear HIV from infected cells in the brain, according to a new study.

PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had ...

A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with ...

Since those fateful days, almost 90 million people around the world have been infected with HIV, and more than 40 million ...

The freeze by President Donald Trump on foreign aid and HIV-related initiatives, has raised concern, especially among countries in Africa.

Pseudoscience has recently been reemerging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: HIV is neither the cause nor the sole cause of AIDS. This nonsense has ...

Breakthrough innovations have come to light that have proved to be more than 95% effective in preventing HIV infection with injections just twice a year. Once a year might even be possible. They could ...