Researchers have made a breakthrough in the search for a vaccine that could protect people from acquiring HIV after preliminary studies on monkeys showed a 50 percent chance of protection against the virus. Speaking at...
A virus is a moving target. And for 30 years, HIV has been constantly on the move making new copies of itself that are slightly different than before, ready to attack the immune system that the body needs to protect...
Researchers have designed a synthetic molecule that tricks the AIDS virus into destroying itself. The compound, called DAVEI, was developed by researchers at Philadelphia’s Drexel University and causes the deadly...
Researchers are continuing to search for a HIV/AIDS vaccine that could potentially solve the AIDS epidemic. Now, they may be one step closer, Scientists have announced that they’ve developed a HIV/AIDS vaccine...
African governments are spending more of their own money to combat the AIDS virus, malaria and other health plagues – according to a new report by the United Nations’ AIDS agency and the African Union (AU)...
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the US-based National Institutes of Health Dr Anthony Fauci has said that thirteen countries receiving U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS...
A broader base of funders is needed to sustain support for HIV prevention research, which continues to make breakthroughs that could help to end the AIDS epidemic, according to a report released on Saturday. The report...
More than 30 years after the discovery of the AIDS virus, experts are optimistic that a cure for the disease will be found, and that an end to the AIDS epidemic is possible. But they caution there is still a lot of work...
The latest bad news in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine: The government halted a large U.S. study on Thursday, saying the experimental shots aren’t preventing HIV infection. Nor did the shots reduce the amount of the...
On May 31, 1987, as panic about AIDS spread, a reporter for the New York Times spent a month investigating the transmission of the global epidemic. “In the kingdom of AIDS,” he wrote, “a penis itself, often likened to a...