August 12 2008 12:00 AM ET
Gift Cards Key to New AIDS Prevention Strategy
Could the AIDS Virus Be Stopped With Gift Cards?
August 09 2008 12:00 AM ET
D.C. Clinic Registers 232% Rise in HIV Cases
An unusually high increase in the number of clients testing positive for HIV at the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, D.C., has officials alarmed, according to the Washington Blade.
August 07 2008 12:00 AM ET
Canada Pledges Additional $45 Million to Fight AIDS
Canadian health minister Tony Clement announced at the International AIDS Conference that his country will spend $45 million to fight the spread of HIV in Africa.
August 06 2008 12:00 AM ET
Activists Applaud U.S. Lifting of HIV Travel Restrictions
AIDS experts praised the United States on Tuesday for ending its two-decade ban on HIV-positive people entering the country, saying travel restrictions by dozens of other countries are hurting efforts to control the epidemic.
August 05 2008 12:00 AM ET
Mixed Results for Growth Hormone in HIV Patients
A hormone better known for illicit use among athletes can help treat troublesome complications from the AIDS virus, but with potentially risky side effects, a small study found.
August 05 2008 12:00 AM ET
12-Year-Old With HIV Applauded at International AIDS Conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus -- and so did she.
August 02 2008 12:00 AM ET
CDC: U.S. HIV Rates Higher Than Previously Thought
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to announce that the HIV infection rate in the United States is as much as 40% higher than previously reported. The announcement will come on Sunday at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
August 01 2008 12:00 AM ET
Bush Signs Bill to Triple AIDS Funding, Repeal HIV Travel Ban
President Bush signed legislation Wednesday that repeals the law barring HIV-positive visitors and immigrants and triples U.S. funding to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world. The five-year, $48 billion plan renews a program credited with saving millions of lives in Africa alone and is widely seen as one of the major achievements of the Bush presidency.
July 31 2008 12:00 AM ET
U.N.: AIDS Epidemic Stable But Prevention Still Lags
Fewer people are dying of AIDS, more patients are on HIV medication, and the global AIDS epidemic is stable after peaking in the late 1990s. But the United Nations AIDS agency warned in its yearly report Tuesday that governments will need to continue setting aside millions of dollars for AIDS treatment and prevention during the coming decades as patients live longer on AIDS medications.
July 31 2008 12:00 AM ET
Black U.S. AIDS Rates Rival Those of Some African Nations
A new report published by the Black AIDS Institute is intended to raise awareness and remind the public that the "AIDS epidemic is not over in America, especially not in Black America," reports CNN.
