Key High-Risk HIV Groups Threaten AIDS Progress, Warns The WHO

Five key groups, including gay men, prostitutes and prisoners, have stubbornly high rates of HIV that are threatening progress in the global AIDS battle, the World Health O...

It’s time to bring HIV prevention drugs out of the closet

May 14 should have been PrEP’s big coming out moment. That’s when the federal government issued new guidelines urging doctors to adopt the use of PrEP – a...

HIV prevalence among IDUs falling

Drugs abuse‚ however‚ still on the rise‚ say organizations HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in the country has significantly decreased after the ...

About 1.6 Billion People Of The World Depend On Forests For Living

First-ever survey on forest genetic resources by FAO calls for urgent measures to protect the precious resources which provide a range of economic, health and ecological be...

Can we eradicate HIV/AIDS?

Wednesday is the 30-year anniversary of the day my colleagues and I reported that a new retrovirus, now known as HIV, was the agent causing AIDS. We also announced the deve...

Tuberculosis affects 1 million children annually: Study

Harvard researchers believe that over one million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have TB. Experts from the univer...

Contraceptive protects against HIV

Scientists have developed a new contraceptive for women that protects against HIV as well as unwanted pregnancies. The device, which lasts for up to three months, delivers ...

Ray of hope for HIV patients

New York: In a significant discovery, researchers have identified a new protein that holds promise for the next-generation of anti-HIV drugs.

The team at University...

Paracetamol can slow brain development in kids

A new study has found that paracetamol can interfere with the brain development of children, and can even be dangerous for unborn kids.

Researchers at Uppsala Unive...