NEW DELHI: In a major step forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Lenacapavir, an injectable HIV drug. This drug protects people for six months ...

TODAY (December 1), events will take place around the world to mark the 30th anniversary of World Aids Day. Big anniversaries offer the opportunity to reflect on the progress that has been made and, ...

From the identification of HIV as the agent that causes AIDS, to the development of effective antiretroviral drugs, the scientific achievements in HIV research in the past 20 years have been ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first used the term “AIDS” on Sept. 24, 1982, more than a year after the first cases appeared in medical records. Those early years of the crisis were ...

Amid international financial meltdown and recession, the challenge of withdrawal from Iraq and the growing crisis in Afghanistan, there will be few "quick wins" available to President Obama. But ...

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HIV is one of the world’s most serious public health challenges, and molecular detection plays a significant role in early diagnosis and antiretroviral therapy for HIV patients. The current “gold ...

WASHINGTON — People will soon be able to learn before leaving the doctor's office if they're infected with the AIDS virus. The government on Thursday approved a 20-minute HIV test that AIDS experts ...

The first strain of a virus considered the ancestor of HIV - the virus that causes AIDS - may have been passed to humans through a bite wound or scratch from a hunted chimpanzee whose blood seeped ...

One of the most demonised patients in history - Gaetan Dugas - has been convincingly cleared of claims he spread HIV to the US, say scientists. Mr Dugas, a homosexual flight attendant, gained ...

He is among over 1,200 British haemophiliacs given HIV-infected blood products in the 1980s - some of the early and unexpected victims of the global Aids epidemic. Fewer than 400 of them are still ...

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