An estimated 40.8 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and it killed about 630,000 people last year. View on ...

In his State of the Union address last month, President Bush announced a marked increase in funds to fight AIDS worldwide. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer reports. Pres. Bush's recent announcement ...

Spain observes World AIDS Day, highlighting ongoing HIV misconceptions, treatment realities, and the importance of testing ...

Since the first reported case 40 years ago, HIV/AIDS continues to be a global health crisis, particularly in Africa. The continent is home to about 15.2% of the world’s population, but home to more ...

A Dec. 15 Facebook video shows Kary Mullis, a scientist known for denying the link between HIV and AIDS, claiming again there is no proof HIV is the cause of AIDS. A narrator says Mullis found no ...

Luc Montagnier, the scientist who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, has died at 89. His key contribution came at a time when AIDS was mysterious and uniformly deadly. The scientist who discovered ...

A report published in April 2007 by UNAIDS, the World Health Organization and UNICEF revealed that access to anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment has steadily increased in many African countries over the ...

“We are now engaged in another deadly episode in the historic battle of man versus microbe. These battles have shaped the course of human evolution and of history. We have seen the face of our ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...