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It’s that season again: time for the big reveal of the TIME 100 — our editors’ picks for the most influential and interesting people in the world.
Filmmakers are threatening to leave the nation’s porn capital because of a new law requiring condom use on set.
Would you rather save lives and save money — or make a political point? Sadly, when the question involves the issue of clean needle programs, the choice to “send a message” always seems to win.
It was an all too familiar story to those who study HIV. Kimberly Page, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), had just returned from Cambodia, where she had been conducting research on how to protect people from getting infected with the AIDS-causing virus.
To contain the AIDS epidemic, it will take far more than simply finding and treating every patient who is infected with HIV. To truly halt the virus’ march, you will also need to shield healthy people from being infected in the first place.
Women who use an injectable hormone contraceptive may be twice as likely to become infected with HIV as women who do not use contraception at all, according to a large study conducted in Africa. What’s more, the male partners of HIV-positive women who used the contraceptive were also twice as likely to be infected with [...]
On Sept. 8, the U.K. Dept. of Health announced it would lift its lifetime ban on blood donation by men who have sex with other men, a policy that gay activists have long criticized as unfair.
A litter of fluorescent kittens is illuminating more than their proud mother’s eyes. These glowing animals have been genetically engineered to make blood cells that are resistant to feline immunodeficiency virus, or FIV, the virus that causes feline AIDS. The study could give researchers insight into fighting AIDS in both humans and cats.
Average number of new HIV infections each year in the U.S. between 2006 and 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The rate of new infections has plateaued, but remains persistently high despite advances in the treatment of AIDS; in some groups, infections have rapidly increased: HIV infections increased 48% among [...]
Price in U.S. dollars of an 11-oz. (300 g) gecko in the Philippines, according to Filipino environment officials. Geckos are reportedly exported to other parts of Asia as a folk remedy for asthma, AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis and impotence, although the Filipino government warned Friday there is no scientific evidence that geckos can cure any of [...]
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