November 7, 2016 Buyers clubs for cheaper drugs help fight hepatitis and HIV Frustrated by the high price of antiviral drugs, thousands of patients from London to Moscow to Sydney are turning to a new wave of online "buyers clubs" to get cheap generic medicines to cure hepatitis C and protect against HIV infection.
November 7, 2016 Tanzania suspends some HIV programs for gay men, says health minister DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania has suspended community-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs for gay men, the health minister said on Monday, in the latest crackdown on the high-risk group.
November 3, 2016 Official: Fourth-largest city in Russia has HIV epidemic Russian health officials say one in 50 people in the country's fourth-largest city is carrying the HIV virus as Russia struggles to deal with a rapidly rising number of infections.
October 26, 2016 Gene study clears 'Patient Zero' as cause of US HIV epidemic Genes taken from archived blood samples show the U.S. AIDS epidemic started in New York in the early 1970s, definitively debunking the long-held belief that the virus was spread in the early 1980s by a flight attendant who became vilified as "Patient Zero" for seeding the U.S. outbreak.
October 25, 2016 University sells HIV testing kits in vending machine Students at a Chinese university now have the option to test themselves for HIV at their convenience, as they can now purchase affordable testing kits in vending machines.
October 13, 2016 Experiment in monkeys raises hopes of 'functional cure' for HIV A new drug combination helped stave off a monkey version of HIV for nearly two years after stopping all treatments, raising hopes for a functional cure for HIV, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
October 13, 2016 Efforts to beat tuberculosis fall far short, WHO warns Health authorities worldwide need to move much faster to prevent, detect and treat a "deadly epidemic" of tuberculosis if they are to reduce TB infections and deaths by 2030, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday.
October 11, 2016 Anti-gay sentiment seen threatening Indonesia's goal to end AIDS by 2030 JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing anti-gay sentiment in Indonesia could hamper efforts to combat fast-rising HIV infections among one of the most at-risk groups, threatening the country's target to end an AIDS epidemic by 2030, a senior official has warned.
October 11, 2016 Wilmette man, 46, charged with knowingly transmitting HIV A personal trainer from the northern suburbs of Chicago is charged with knowingly transmitting HIV to three women he dated.
October 3, 2016 Treatment raises 'real possibility' of curing HIV The first results of a study out of the UK are raising the tantalizing possibility that researchers have figured not just how to treat HIV but how to actually cure it.
