Category: HIV/AIDS

In the time I spent with people caring for orphans in Africa, I observed how they were focused on the absolute essentials, like keeping the …

Just a few days after the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS in the United States, The Atlantic's Joshua Green looks at …

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine posted a nice entry on its blog today looking at two research teams it's funding that are working on …

The June 1981 report could have ended up as just a footnote in history – five gay men in Los Angeles with a rare case of …

Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS in the United States. To commemorate the anniversary, the San Francisco AIDS …

Exciting news this week in the global battle against AIDS. As my colleague recently reported, treating HIV patients with AIDS drugs early on may make …

Treat early. That’s become the mantra of the AIDS world. While previous studies have shown that early treatment benefits infected individuals, now a watershed study …

HIV-positive women who breastfeed their babies are at high risk of passing the virus on to their infants. As many as 30 percent of the …

This week's image comes from the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, which appears in the Feb. 18 issue of Science. This arresting (and …

You may have heard the news about the "Berlin Patient," a German man who was reportedly cured of HIV with a stem cell transplant. (The …

Two monumental pieces of news on AIDS hit the front pages of the New York Times today - both relating to prevention but in very …

Yesterday's Shots featured an interesting conversation with Richard Knox and Michel Sibidé, the head of UNAIDS. In the Q&A, Sibidé talks about the almost-30-year-old AIDS …

I remember the first time I saw a woman in Africa die of AIDS. Susan Andukais, just 36, was entombed on the only bed in …

Californians living with HIV/AIDS and the pioneering research on the virus are the focus of KQED's latest Health Dialogues, which debuted last night. On the …

In this TED Talk, musician Annie Lennox discusses her work on the SING campaign to raise awareness and money to fight HIV/AIDS. She shares the …

I stopped by recently to get a peek at Stanford’s new Positive Care Clinic (.pdf) in Atherton, which is getting some attention these days because …