By all rights, he should be dead today. He was a self-destructive, angry young man who got mixed up in drugs and alcohol and took …
Category: HIV, AIDS
International AIDS Conference Day Two: Hillary Clinton envisions AIDS-free generation
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brought more than 7,000 people to their feet today with her memories of the millions lost to AIDS and …
Image of the Week: Patrick
The International AIDS Conference opens today in Washington, D.C. My colleague, Ruthann Richter, is attending the conference and will be writing about her experiences there. …
International AIDS Conference: Day One
For the first time in 20 years, the International AIDS Conference opens today in the United States following the lifting of the travel ban in …
Truvada: Not a magic bullet for preventing HIV
As you may have heard, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the drug Truvada as a preventative measure for HIV-negative individuals who are at …
Research suggests potential cause of HIV-associated dementia and depression
Symptoms of depression and dementia among HIV patients could be attributed to the viruses ability to kill off neurons in the brain, according to a …
A call for safe sex awareness to combat HIV in China
So far, the spread of HIV in China has remained at levels less than one-fifth that of Europe and the United States, but now researchers …
PEPFAR has saved lives – and not just from HIV/AIDS, Stanford study finds
PEPFAR, the largest U.S. initiative ever devoted to a single disease, has helped save lives from all causes, not just HIV/AIDS, a new Stanford study …
FDA panel recommends use of new cost-effective tool to curb AIDS epidemic
In a very promising step forward, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel has taken the unusual step of recommending approval of the first once-a-day …
Anthony Fauci: End of AIDS pandemic in sight
A young Anthony Fauci, MD, was ensconced in his office on the 11th floor of a National Institutes of Health clinical center in 1981 when …
Preventing HIV with daily drug is costly but useful
Imagine you could take a pill every day that would significantly reduce your chances of becoming infected with the AIDS virus. It could be an …
World AIDS Day reflections: Living beyond AIDS
This week, I received a very heartening piece of news: Cyrus, one of the first orphans we met in Kenya some 10 years ago, is …
African scientists recognized for developing HIV prevention method
The scene in July 2010 in Vienna was one of my most electric moments in covering science. I happened to grab a front row seat at …
Research shows benefit of treating TB and HIV at the same time
A new study out of UCSF is showing that treating tuberculosis and HIV infections at the same time appears to be a life-saving strategy. As Erin Allday at the …
How rethinking condom marketing strategies in the Congo could reduce HIV infection rates
To help reduce HIV infection rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo, aid agencies have made free and cheap condoms widely available to residents and …
An aging HIV-positive population faces unique medical challenges
Medical advances have transformed HIV infection from a certain death sentence to a potentially survivable (if still incurable) disease, and the result is a growing population …