We've come a long way when it comes to HIV and AIDS misinformation. But the stigma and discrimination surrounding the conditions during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the '80s still lingers today.

The events will include lectures from Kerr and Katie Rutherford, both experts on the contemporary AIDS crisis, a film ...

On Wednesday, December 1 older people across Africa will mark this year’s World AIDS Day with a call for greater respect of their human rights. This year’s World AIDS Day theme is Universal Access and ...

Today marks the 25 th National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. It is a day meant to raise awareness for the fact that HIV/AIDS continues to take more Black lives than those of any other racial group.

Across the United States, approximately 1.2 million people are living with HIV, and the virus is disproportionately affecting Black communities at a greater rate compared to other races, according to ...

Plans are underway to establish a national data and information centre on HIV/AIDS, the chairperson of the Uganda AIDS Commission Prof. Vinand Nantulya has said. He said that currently, there is a ...

BELOIT — Testing is key to prevention when it comes to HIV infection. “Everyone should know their status,” said Brooke McKearn, prevention specialist at Vivent Health in Beloit. McKearn was among the ...

Two decades after effective antiretroviral drugs became widely available for HIV, African Americans still make up 43 percent of new HIV diagnoses. They've also died from COVID-19 at one and a half ...

The doctor said if I use drugs, I can’t have ART. —Chai L., age 45, HIV-positive drug user Thailand is one of the few developing countries to have successfully curbed a runaway HIV/AIDS epidemic, ...

Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a member of the retroviridae family and is an enveloped icosahedral virus of about 100 to 110 nm in diameter. There are two known strains: HIV-1 and HIV-2 which ...