Researchers have discovered how the cold sore virus hides in the body, which may be the key to a permanent cure
A three-year initiative will seek to give HIV tests to everyone in the Bronx from age 18 to 64, the New York City Department of Health announced Thursday.
She burst on the music scene as one-third of Destiny's Child, the highest-selling female group of all time.
Merck's drug against HPV has been a boon to the company but is facing growing grass-roots opposition
Younger gay men have stopped talking about AIDS and that's not a good -- and certainly not a safe -- thing. Now public health officials are fighting back
I was born in 1981, about the same time as the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In this limited amount of time, AIDS has grown into the worst public health crisis in human history.
A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes
South Africa's health minister said Thursday that HIV infection rates among pregnant women declined for the second straight year and claimed it was proof of the success of government policies
In Klong Toey, a Bangkok district between a highway and the Chao Phraya River, families of four share motorbikes, street vendors sell residents pouches of food, and doors of homes are open to the outside. A salesman on a bike cart sells broomsticks, while motorcycle taxi drivers, dressed in orange vests, wait at a corner.
Question: I've always been on the Pill, but now I'm breastfeeding. That means I can't go back on it, right?
Researchers have discovered how the cold sore virus hides in the body, which may be the key to a permanent cure
A three-year initiative will seek to give HIV tests to everyone in the Bronx from age 18 to 64, the New York City Department of Health announced Thursday.
She burst on the music scene as one-third of Destiny's Child, the highest-selling female group of all time.
Merck's drug against HPV has been a boon to the company but is facing growing grass-roots opposition
Younger gay men have stopped talking about AIDS and that's not a good -- and certainly not a safe -- thing. Now public health officials are fighting back
I was born in 1981, about the same time as the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In this limited amount of time, AIDS has grown into the worst public health crisis in human history.
A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes
South Africa's health minister said Thursday that HIV infection rates among pregnant women declined for the second straight year and claimed it was proof of the success of government policies
In Klong Toey, a Bangkok district between a highway and the Chao Phraya River, families of four share motorbikes, street vendors sell residents pouches of food, and doors of homes are open to the outside. A salesman on a bike cart sells broomsticks, while motorcycle taxi drivers, dressed in orange vests, wait at a corner.
Question: I've always been on the Pill, but now I'm breastfeeding. That means I can't go back on it, right?
As the room echoes with R&B music, students from Clark Atlanta, Morehouse and Spelman colleges laugh, talk and work on brightly colored pieces of cloth on long tables.
The House voted 308-116 Wednesday to more than triple, to $50 billion a year over the next five years, the money available for a program fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other stricken areas of the world
A Florida-based company's artificial immune system promises to make testing of new vaccines faster, cheaper and safer
I'm the mother of two daughters, a teen and a tween. So every day, I tiptoe through hormonally laced minefields hoping to avoid emotional carnage in response to any of my random comments or actions.
Too Many Hysterectomies? One-third of all women get a hysterectomy before they turn 60. Some experts think two-thirds of them don't need it.
On his trip, the President highlights his success in fighting AIDS -- but avoids hot spots where his legacy is more vexed
House Republican leader John Boehner and other Republicans warned on Thursday that a successful program to combat AIDS in Africa would be in jeopardy if Democrats move ahead with plans to make changes that he said would support abortions
Swiss researchers have suggested that some people with HIV can safely have unprotected sex. Why AIDS experts say that's an irresponsible, high-risk statement
Despite a lack of conclusive scientific evidence, some people are already using antiretrovirals as preventives, hoping to halt HIV transmission during risky sex
A research team in Texas used a common antiretroviral drug to halt the transmission of HIV in lab mice engineered to behave like humans
Tablets of the drug etravirine were approved Friday by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of HIV infection in adults who have failed treatment with other antiretrovirals.
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee refused to retract a statement he made in 1992 calling for the isolation of AIDS patients.
Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk."
Federal health officials are revising their estimate of how many people are infected by HIV each year, and advocacy groups say the number could rise by 35 percent or more
Surrounded by some of the biggest names in music, former South African President Nelson Mandela sounded another call to arms Saturday in the battle against HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has seen HIV and AIDS evolve from a mystery disease of the 1980s to an international health catastrophe to a disease that many consider a chronic but manageable condition.
U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday stressed the role of faith-based groups in the fight against AIDS, calling the struggle one of conscience and morals on the eve of World AIDS Day.
Sen. Hillary Clinton would make a major change to President Bush's AIDS program if she were in the White House, she said this week in announcing her global strategy to combat AIDS.
Students will learn about the history of the AIDS pandemic and the status of AIDS in the United States. Students will create ways to inform various demographic groups in the U.S. about the risk of HIV/AIDS.
World AIDS Day is observed around the globe on December 1. Since the first World AIDS Day in 1988, governments, organizations and charities have worked to raise awareness of the global AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Use the information in this One-Sheet to provide students with an overview about HIV and AIDS.
Actress Ashley Judd proudly declares that her most meaningful professional role hasn't been on screen or stage -- it's been her work as the "global ambassador" for YouthAIDS, a worldwide HIV/AIDS education and prevention effort.
The number of people around the world living with the virus that causes AIDS is actually nearly seven million fewer than previous estimates, according to the United Nations.
The market for treatment of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is mutating as rapidly as the virus itself, and drug industry heavyweight GlaxoSmithKline could find its lead position in jeopardy.
A global survey about people's perception of AIDS reveals there's still a lot of confusion and misinformation about the disease
Merck's promising AIDS vaccine candidate turned out to be an absolute failure in trials, but it may still pave the way for future success
Men taking any of the three erectile dysfunction drugs - Viagra, Levitra or Cialis - or the blood pressure medication Revatio may be at increased risk for sudden hearing loss, prompting Food and Drug Administration officials to require label changes by the manufacturer.
Men taking any of three erectile dysfunction drugs -- Viagra, Levitra or Cialis -- may be at increased risk for sudden hearing loss, prompting Food and Drug Administration officials to require label changes for the medications.
The outcry over Portland, Maine's decision to provide the pill to young girls shows that adults still have trouble discussing sex with each other, much less with our kids
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first of a new class of HIV drugs that attacks the virus in a different way.
Merck's cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil now faces direct competition from Glaxo's Cervarix, which was approved by European health authorities, said the vaccine's maker GlaxoSmithKline on Monday.
A promising experimental vaccine to prevent the AIDS virus has failed in a crucial experiment, with volunteers becoming infected with HIV anyway, leading the drug developer to halt the study.
Activists on both sides are in a heated confrontation in the city of Aurora over a new Planned Parenthood clinic
FDA advisors voted unanimously in support of an experimental HIV drug from Merck, according to the company and the government agency.
FDA advisers believe that an experimental HIV drug from Merck is safe and effective, based on documents released by the agency.
Researchers are still figuring out the dangers and benefits of hormone replacement therapy, but two new studies give a boost to estrogen as a defense against dementia
Jesus Aguais was working as an AIDS counselor for Latino patients when a woman from his native Venezuela entered his New York medical center office with a desperate plea.
The FDA has approved the vaccine only for girls and women up to age 26. Now a medical debate is raging over whether older women should get it too
Men should be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted wart virus to protect them against a type of mouth and throat cancer, U.S. researchers said Monday.
Officials in Papua New Guinea are investigating claims by an HIV-positive woman that people with AIDS were buried alive by their relatives when they became too sick to care for, an official said Tuesday.
South Africa's health department said on Tuesday it has recalled 20 million potentially defective condoms approved by an official accused of taking bribes from a manufacturer.
South African President Thabo Mbeki shrugged off opposition calls to fire his health minister on Monday after a newspaper reported she is an alcoholic and still drinking despite having a liver transplant.
TThe drug helps protect teenage girls from the virus that can cause cervical cancer, but a new study shows it does little to help women who already are already infected
President Mbeki fires the health minister who has tried to bring some sense to the nation's war against the disease
The government approved a novel drug Monday to help patients with the AIDS virus who are running out of options, while acknowledging lingering questions about the pills' long-term effects
The trafficking of women to work as prostitutes is likely a key factor in the spread of HIV/AIDS across South Asia, according to a study
Maybe I'm the wrong ex-patient to be telling you this: Experimental surgery erased Stage III colon cancer from my shell-shocked body six years ago. But even I've got to admit that all is not well in America's operating rooms: At least 12,000 Americans die each year from unnecessary surgery, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association report. And tens of thousands more suffer complications.
New HIV infections still dramatically outpace efforts in poor nations to bring treatment to patients, health officials said
Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. said Thursday second-quarter profit rose 54 percent as HIV testing campaigns helped spur demand for its drugs that combat the AIDS-causing virus.
The procedure has long been regarded as a solution to many women's health problems, but some critics say it is overused
Eight trailblazing scientists who are about to change your life.
Libya's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with HIV
The French government has agreed to subsidize a cervical cancer vaccine made by Merck for teenage girls and young women, according to Merck's marketing partner, French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis.
Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that U.S. health regulators will approve its novel AIDS drug called maraviroc once certain conditions have been met, although the world's biggest drugmaker did not elaborate on what was necessary to obtain outright approval.
Development campaigners have criticized a pledge by the leaders of the world's richest nations on Friday to give $60 billion to fight diseases such as AIDS in Africa.
CEOs reveal the business strategies that put companies like Akamai, Netflix, and Priceline at the top of Business 2.0's ranking of the 100 fastest-growing technology companies.
President Bush asked Congress on Wednesday to triple the funding for his international AIDS initiative and extend the program an additional five years.
Gay men remain banned for life from donating blood, the government said Wednesday, leaving in place -- for now -- a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of HIV through transfusions
The first birth-control pill meant to put a stop to women's monthly periods indefinitely won federal approval Tuesday
When Narisara Panya's husband died of AIDS seven years ago after returning to Thailand from a construction job abroad, it was devastating. With only a small plot of land that didn't always yield en...
FDA advisers on Tuesday unanimously supported the speedy approval of an experimental HIV anti-viral from Pfizer.
Biotech developer Gilead Sciences Inc. reported first-quarter earnings and revenue Wednesday that beat analysts' expectations.
The biotech Gilead could emerge as one of the top performers in the drug industry when it reports earnings on Wednesday, thanks to its fast-growing HIV drug franchise.
CNN's TALK ASIA is granted special access to Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), at her first public appearance in Singapore. She joins CNN's Anjali Rao for an in-depth discussion on avian flu, HIV AIDS and other global public-health emergencies.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending a change in drug therapies for gonorrhea because of widespread resistance to the antibiotics currently used to treat the disease.
GlaxoSmithKline said it submitted an application for its cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix to the Food and Drug Administration, bringing it one step closer to challenging Merck's now-dominant Gardasil.
In a packed lecture hall at Cornell University, Dr. Ash Tewari recently showed a 3D video of a robotic claw surgically removing a prostate, as medical professionals watched stoically and reporters squirmed in their seats.
At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake syrup.
GlaxoSmithKline is getting closer to launching its challenge against Merck's monopoly on cervical cancer vaccines.
One day you're told that birth-control pills sap your sex drive and make you fat. The next day they're hailed as an easy way to eliminate your period and lower the risk of ovarian cancer.
The Food and Drug Administration approved GlaxoSmithKline's breast cancer drug Tykerb, the drug company said Tuesday.
Merck and Pfizer are giving AIDS patients something to hope for: a new generation of experimental drugs that could prolong their lives.
When John got divorced after 12 years of marriage, he took a deep breath and launched into the dating scene.
This week, members of Big Pharma will lift the curtain on what could be the next generation of HIV drugs.
FDA advisors will consider on Tuesday and Wednesday if birth control drugs need more stringent guidelines for safety and effectiveness.
The British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline fired a shot over Merck's bow on Thursday, by launching a study comparing its own experimental vaccine for cervical cancer to Merck's Gardasil.
Dr. Anthony Fauci got goose bumps when he began connecting the dots in the early 1980s of gay men suffering from an unknown disorder in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and New York.
Twenty-five years and 25 million deaths after the first AIDS diagnosis in San Francisco, drug companies are still looking for the Holy Grail in HIV research: a vaccine that would prevent infection.
Amid the haunting stories of whole African communities struck by HIV/AIDS and gloomy statistics showing there are 39.5 million suffering from the disease globally, there have been some positive developments to usher in World AIDS Day.
In a country plagued by AIDS, a doctor in this remote industrial area of Taung, South Africa, is quietly providing life-prolonging drugs and hope for people who are HIV-positive.
To see white-haired Father Angelo D'Agostino, an 80-year-old Jesuit and doctor, you would almost certainly underestimate his strengths.
World AIDS Day is observed around the globe on December 1. Since the first World AIDS Day in 1988, international governments, organizations and charities have worked to raise awareness of the global AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Use the information in this Extra! to provide students with an overview about HIV and AIDS.
Bristol-Myers Squibb could gain a badly needed boost to its public image with a new AIDS drug that analysts are calling a potential billion-dollar blockbuster.
Most Americans should get tested for the virus that causes AIDS, the government said Thursday, giving a lift to the stock of a leading maker of HIV tests.
On the top floor of a drab apartment building on the edge of New Delhi, Ram Meher, 35, is taking his AIDS medicine, as he has every day for the past three years. Meher is a struggling wheat and sug...
When the black SUV crested the hill and stopped near a cluster of low buildings in the desolate Rwandan village of Rwinkwavu, a crowd of people cheered and the cameras started to roll. Showtime. Pa...
Tens of thousands of Kenyans lined the streets of Kisumu on Saturday, giving U.S. Sen. Barack Obama a hero's welcome as he arrived to visit the nearby village where his late father and grandfather lived.
When most people learn they are HIV positive it is a very private moment, and for Tom Donohue it was no different, at first.
"Act Up! Fight Back! Fight AIDS!
During the 25 years of the AIDS epidemic, much of the focus has been on developing a vaccine or treatment, and prevention has sometimes seemed to take a back seat. But this week at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the tables are turning.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, leaders in worldwide anti-AIDS efforts, had praise Monday for President Bush's initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, on the first full day of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
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