Category: HIV/AIDS

A Stanford study sheds light on the problems facing rural women in California with HIV. The research is among the first to examine the lives …

The International AIDS Conference in Vienna wraps up tomorrow. My colleague Ruthann Richter has written about numerous developments there (her updates can be found in …

There's a mantra in the AIDS world: Treatment is prevention. This isn't a new idea, but it's gaining a lot more traction, particularly in light …

The hottest news yet out of the International AIDS Conference was the announcement of the first vaginal gel that can protect women against HIV during …

A weary-looking Bill Clinton took the main stage today at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna - the same spot where some 50 demonstrators the …

Bill Gates is admittedly an optimist. At the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, which has been filled with gloom about funding shortages for desperately needed …

I descended into Vienna early this morning into the mass chaos that is the International AIDS Conference. There is often drama at this enormous conference …

While in Africa, I spent time with children who had lost parents to AIDS, many of whom were living with aging grannies. The grannies were, …

One out of six Americans is estimated to have genital herpes, a condition that can produce painful blisters and make a person more susceptible to …

I recently gave a talk to a distinguished group at the Fellowship Forum in Palo Alto, where I was asked about contraception use in Africa. …

For the last several months, stories have been trickling out of Africa of people dying as AIDS clinics fall short of drugs. Now comes a …

For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of South Africans languished and died in the shadow of AIDS as the country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, …

Bill Gates writes about a low-tech, low-cost initiative to reduce the transmission of HIV in South Africa: After that, I travelled 590 kilometers northwest of …

Circumcision as a way to prevent HIV emerged as a hot topic in 2007, when the first large-scale studies from Africa showed it could reduce …

Among the tragic side-effects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is that so many children were left behind after witnessing the trauma of seeing many family …