HIV/Aids News

HIV aid has saved 741 000 lives

The United States foreign aid programme that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying, a study suggests.

At-home HIV test gets thumbs up

A US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of the first HIV test that would give people the results in the privacy of their own home.

HIV patients a cardiac death risk

People suffering from HIV/Aids are at much higher risk than the general population of sudden cardiac death, researchers in California have found.

HIV-prevention drug gets endorsed

The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of US federal advisers, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the fight against Aids.

UN: Reduce Aids deaths by 2015

Governments should stand by their commitments to substantially reduce the number of Aids-related deaths by 2015, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.

ARTs suppress resistant HIV

African patients with resistant strains of HIV had favorable results from second line protease-inhibitor-based anti-retroviral therapy, with no increase in drug-resistant HIV.

Progress in fight against Aids

The government is achieving its targets in the fight against HIV/Aids, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said.

HIV ups anal cancer risk in women

Women with HIV are at increased risk for anal cancer, a new study finds.

Anti-Aids pill for gay men

Gay men who have five or more sex partners per year are part of a high-risk group that could benefit from a daily pill to ward off HIV, said an analysis by researchers.

Engineers join Aids fight

Getting Aids test results from labs to remote villages once took weeks in Mozambique, with the information sent by courier along the impoverished country's terrible roads.