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It may soon be possible to quickly test yourself for HIV in the privacy of your own home. But experts question the 93% accuracy rate, which falls below the government's recommended 95%.
The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS.
Recent studies suggest that drugs used for HIV treatment can also protect healthy people from infection. But can these medications really turn the tide of the AIDS epidemic?
A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
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.
In 2009, researchers reported that an AIDS vaccine had for the first time protected people against HIV. Since then, the researchers have been wondering, How did it work?
Rate of HIV infection in intravenous drug users in the U.S. in 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That rate has fallen by half — from 18% — since the 1990s. Despite the decline, HIV-testing rates among IV-drug users are also falling, and risky behaviors such as needle sharing and unprotected [...]
Hepatitis C kills more Americans than HIV. How does the virus spread?
Number of Americans who died from hepatitis C between 1999 and 2007 — more than were killed by HIV over the same time period. Deaths from hepatitis C have been increasing steadily in recent years, mostly in middle-aged adults, in part because many people don’t know they have the disease. About 3.2 million Americans are [...]
Filmmakers are threatening to leave the nation’s porn capital because of a new law requiring condom use on set.
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
