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Tuberculosis is one of the world's leading killers. Every year at least 9 million people are infected with TB, with almost 2 million deaths, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Yet few citizens, scientists and policymakers are demanding more attention to TB research, treatment and prevention.
A South Florida hospital, where officials say a nurse may have exposed more than 1,800 patients to HIV and hepatitis by reusing medical supplies, says patients are being tested.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects both types of the virus that causes AIDS.
The government proposed Wednesday to have Medicare cover tests for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
In an Aug. 20 story about safe-sex practices in the adult film industry, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Vivid Entertainment employed at least five performers who were infected in an HIV outbreak that briefly shut down the industry in 2004. Vivid spokeswoman Jackie Martin said all of its performers tested negative that year.
The White House will hold a series of community discussions on HIV and AIDS throughout the country beginning next week.
An AIDS advocacy group filed complaints Thursday with state officials against 16 production companies that show unprotected sex in porn movies.
Alabama has shed the distinction of being the only state to bar inmates with HIV from work release programs.
Agreements between former President Bill Clinton's foundation and two drug companies will lower prices on medications for patients with drug-resistant HIV in the developing world.
A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
Foreigners who have HIV would be allowed to travel and immigrate to the United States under a plan by federal health officials to lift a 22-year ban on infected visitors that critics say was unnecessary from the start.
A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.
Los Angeles County public health officials are backtracking on the number of HIV cases in adult film performers.
Brryan Jackson has been left out of birthday party invitations and asked not to use water fountains. His daily routine at one point included 23 pills, three IV medications and two injections. But the toughest part of growing up with AIDS for him may be knowing how he got it.
A jury sentenced a suburban Dallas man to 45 years in prison Friday for knowingly infecting six women with the AIDS virus.
A recent report found that of all adults and adolescents in Washington, D.C. are infected with HIV, a prevalence rate approaching that of developing countries. Among African-American males in the nation’s capital, the number of infections is more than twice as high.
Federal regulators said Tuesday they have approved a new HIV test that screens for two, less common forms of the virus.
Six weeks after someone with HIV said dozens of students at a St. Louis high school might have been exposed to the virus, it remains unclear whether an outbreak has occurred.
The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates are regularly tested and treated, according to a new mathematical model.
A school district in the state where HIV-positive Ryan White fought for the right to attend classes two decades ago is being sued by the family of a 14-year-old girl who says she was bullied so badly over her positive status that she left school.
A Dutch court convicted two men Wednesday for attempting to infect 14 victims with HIV in a bizarre sex case.
Students at a suburban St. Louis high school headed to the gymnasium for HIV testing this week after an infected person told health officials as many as 50 teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS.
Officials plan to start HIV testing at a suburban St. Louis high school where as many as 50 students may have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS.
A Swedish health agency revealed in an article published Wednesday that it had refused to help police track down people who knowingly infect others with HIV.
Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV.
Global warming causes increase in AIDS says UN OfficialSuneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.
Global migration: Where the trains run on time[Manila, Philippines] The results of a poll recently released by the US-based Gallup Organization say that some 700 million people worldwide would move to another country if they could.
Neutered HIV Virus Delivers Treatment to Fatally Ill BoysResearchers may have taken a step towards curing the rare, inherited brain disease made famous by the movie Lorenzo's Oil–and also towards ushering a new era of gene therapy.
Scientists reverse engineer HIV, use it to deliver gene that cures two children of neurological disorder.In what appears to be a first, European researchers have used gene therapy to arrest the progress of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD, a fatal brain disease.
A Resurgence for Gene Therapyscientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
EU Commission calls for more Testing for HIVA recently released EU commissions report states that nearly 30% of people infected with HIV don't know that they are infected, a fact that increase the risk of spreading the disease amongst others.
Obama to overturn ban on foreigners with HIVUnited States President Barack Obama has said he will overturn a 22-year-old law barring foreigners infected with HIV-AIDS from entering the country.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanIt appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanWASHINGTON (Oct. 31) -- President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 20-year-old U.S. travel ban against people with HIV early next year.
Obama Lifts Ban on Visitors With H.I.V.President Obama said on Friday that the United States would do away with a government ban prohibiting foreign nationals who are H.I.V.
Obama lifts U.S. entry ban for those with HIV - USATODAY.comThis is a deal breaker for me .Why risk more people the chance of contracting HIV ?So many issues need attention,but people are waiting because the president has a full plate.But he has found time to get this done.Im sorry you lost me here....
Limbaugh Turns a Good Point into a Message of Seething Hatred In a Matter of SecondsRush Limbaugh is the Socrates of hate. Scholars of the future will look at him not as a political phenomenon, but as a master of rhetoric who can instantly turn a reasonable critique of HN1N1 hysteria into a horrible thing. Here is how he did it:
'Gay marriage' and homosexuality: some medical commentsMedical doctors summarize research on the health risks of homosexuality
Isiah Thomas blasts Magic Johnson over criticisms in new book - Ian Thomsen - SI.comSome drama from the basketball world. When he heard the criticisms from his former friend Magic Johnson in a soon-to-be-released book, Isiah Thomas said he'd had enough. And so he began to fight back.
Apparently Rape is Now Also A Pre-Existing Condition; Seeking Drugs To Prevent HIV After A Rape Makes You UninsurableChristina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month's worth of anti-AIDS medicine.
AIDS Vaccine Trial Shows Only Slight ProtectionThe full results from an AIDS vaccine trial in Thailand, released Tuesday, showed that the vaccine's protective effect might be even weaker than researchers first admitted.
No Place at School for Vietnam's AIDS Orphans - NYTimes.comPrejudice and ignorance is preventing many children infected with HIV to attend school with uninfected children in many rural parts of Asia.
Disjointed Diatribe from a Brutal Terrorist When Libya's leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, addressed the Untied Nations' General Assembly today, he delivered a long, rambling diatribe. One senses that his dysfunction extends far beyond public speaking.
Nurse Exposes Over 1800 Patients To HIV, HepatitisFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- More than 1,800 patients treated by one nurse at a South Florida hospital may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis.
Nurse Fired, Fla. Patients Urged To Get HIV Tests Medical Center is urging patients to get tested for Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and the HIV virus after it was revealed that a nurse re-used supplies when administering IV fluids during stress tests.
Nurse possibly exposed patients to risk More than 1,800 patients at Broward General may have been exposed to hepatitis and HIV viruses because of a nurse's misuse of tubing for five years.
HIV vaccine possibility after scientists rebuild camouflage mechanismA critical camouflage mechanism that allows HIV to hide from the body's defences and foil immunisations has been rebuilt in the laboratory in research that could transform the prospects for an effective Aids vaccine, The Times has learnt. The advance by British scientists shou …
HIV's Ancestors May Have Plagued First MammalsThe retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have been battling it out with mammal immune systems since mammals first evolved around 100 million years ago – about 85 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists now believe.
Hope that Aids May go way of Polio-Vaccine Cuts infection by a ThirdA late-stage trial combining two HIV vaccines was shown to reduce the chance of infection by a third, raising the prospects that in time AIDS can go the way of polio as an eradicated disease.
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