A vaccine that is able to work as a treatment for HIV-infected patients has been an elusive goal. Now experiments on macaques suggest that injections of modified dendritic cells might boost immunity ...

December 10, 2008 — Surveillance case definitions have been revised for HIV infection in adults, adolescents, and children younger than 18 months of age and for HIV infection and AIDS in children aged ...

The number of Americans living with HIV infections or AIDS has passed the 1 million mark for the first time, reflecting both increased success in prolonging survival with AIDS treatments and continued ...

A recent CDC report documented a case of HIV infection in three women who received cosmetic injections in 2018. Although disturbing, this news is not catastrophic, like it would have been three ...

For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called ...

About one-third (35 percent) of AIDS patients diagnosed with the first opportunistic infection from 1997 to 2012 in San Francisco died within five years, according to a study published in the Journal ...

Researchers say that a new AIDS vaccine is somewhat protective against the strain of HIV that is circulating in Southeast Asia. The vaccine, which combines two earlier vaccines that failed to protect ...

She said poverty and HIV/AIDS go hand-in-hand as many living with the disease have been turned away from family and are living on the streets. Delacerda House, which started in 1996, takes in people ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The AIDS infection rate among pregnant women in South Africa stayed at about 30 percent last year, according to a government report Friday that said the infection rate was ...

Half of the Americans recently diagnosed with HIV had been living with the virus for at least three years without realizing it, missing out on opportunities for early treatment and in some cases ...

At dawn in Mengo, the sound of sneakers slapping against tarmac has become more than a sign of celebration; it’s a symbol of ...

The last decade has seen a nearly 25 percent decline in new HIV infections, a reduction in AIDS-related deaths, and "unprecedented advances" in access to treatment, prevention services and care, the ...