South Africa has begun the first human trials of a locally developed HIV vaccine to defeat a virus that still kills around one person per minute worldwide.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential in addressing the diverse global HIV/AIDS pandemic, focusing on vulnerable populations. Significant gaps remain in achieving 2025 goals, with 23% of ...

By Sharon AtienoSouth Africa has unveiled the first-in-human clinical trial of an HIV vaccine specifically targeting strains in Southern Africa.The Eastern and Southern Africa region carries the ...

The world may look back on 2024 as a pivotal time in the fight against AIDS — the start of a revolution in the global biomedical response to HIV using long-acting antiretroviral medicines. Young women ...

Global HIV infection rates are dropping rapidly, a new study found, but likely not fast enough to meet the United Nations’ 2030 target to cut HIV incidence and death by 90% from 2010 levels. New ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Florence Makumene held a plastic container of HIV medication and wondered whether it would be her last as fears swelled of a return to a time decades ago when millions across ...

The Trump Administration has gutted many areas of healthcare funding and research, especially in infectious diseases. One area that has been particularly hard hit has been research, prevention, and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Bustling transport networks, migrant labor and changes to the sex trade in early 20th-century Congo created a "perfect storm" that gave rise to an HIV pandemic that has now infected ...

It emerged that HIV-1 originated from a virus passed from common chimpanzees to human populations in equatorial West Africa, whereas HIV-2 groups with SIVs in African monkeys, being closest to one in ...

Amid steep cuts to U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration is touting a new plan to provide a powerful HIV prevention drug to countries most affected by the disease in an ambitious push to ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...