U.S. efforts to test nearly everyone for the AIDS virus have stalled and just 40 percent of adults in the country have ever been tested for the fatal and incurable virus, according to a government report on Thursday.

A range of risk behaviours are more common for men after migration, reported researchers at the International AIDS Conference on August 5th. Sex with a commercial sex worker, sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, sex in exchange for money and sex with a man were behaviours identified as...

Bad reactions to antibiotics, mostly allergic ones, send people to U.S. emergency rooms more than 140,000 times each year, government researchers reported on Wednesday.

The National Risk Register, prepared by Britain's Cabinet Office, depicts pandemic flu as the biggest threat in terms of potential impact on the country, well above such risks as terrorist attacks, coastal flooding, and major industrial accidents. It says a pandemic could infect as much as half of the British population...

The battle against AIDS is becoming a war of attrition. Which side is on top is not yet clear

B.C. researcher who helped pioneer the use of antiretrovirals becomes head of global AIDS group

The federal health minister remains opposed to safe injection sites, in contrast to the World Health Organization's supportive stance on the harm reduction approach to HIV. Tony Clement attended the launch of the WHO's how-to guide to fight HIV/AIDS at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City on Tuesday. He...

While the world awaits findings from new AIDS prevention trials, millions of people are becoming infected because governments are overlooking studies showing that behavior modification works, AIDS experts said Tuesday. Among the behavior modifications the experts cited: promoting safer sex through delayed intercourse and the use of condoms, decreasing drug abuse,...

In 2006, the Star reporters who covered the International AIDS Conference in Toronto picked a series of hits and misses. That year, close to 40 million people worldwide had HIV/AIDS

The news headlines about the search for a vaccine to protect against HIV-AIDS have been unrelentingly negative in recent years, but that is no reason to give up hope, an international conference heard yesterday.

Kaisernetwork.org is the official webcaster of the conference. Their news service will provide news roundups of events and scientific papers released at AIDS 2008 as well as live webcasts and podcasts of significant presentations.

Researchers in Melbourne believe their discovery could be a major breakthrough in the fight against the disease.

An ounce of prevention in community health programs could save states hundreds of millions in health-care costs, a new study has found.

The Clinton Foundation announced Thursday that it had brokered an agreement among several drug makers that it hoped would ensure a steady supply of a crucial malaria medicine at reasonable prices for the world?s poor.

If an influenza pandemic hits the United States, acute care hospitals are likely to be overwhelmed. Nursing homes may then be expected to assist with the patient overflow, but a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that many are not prepared for such a task.

In the history of infectious diseases, coincidence plays an extraordinary role.

HIV is being spread because doctors overlook symptoms which could reveal the infection, a charity claims.

HIV prevention activities in the UK need to prioritise men under the age of 30 so that interventions reach men before they are infected, say the authors of this year's report on the Gay Men's Sex Survey, an annual survey that was completed by more than 12,000 men in 2006.

Strict conditions on international loans have been blamed for thousands of extra tuberculosis deaths in eastern Europe, and former Soviet republics.

Young sexually active people should get themselves tested annually for the infection chlamydia and again every time they change partner, the Health Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

Shame ? the word is a frequently used South Africanism. It can be employed without irony as a genuine expression of sorrow or it can be laced with the stuff, as in the ubiquitous "Ag, shame man!"

In business, Bill Gates ruthlessly crushed his opponents. Now, he's taking the same approach to saving lives.

Researchers launching a pilot project in the Nunavik region in northern Quebec hope a "do-it-yourself" test for the human papillomavirus, or HPV, might help reduce the rates of cervical cancer in Canada's North.

In 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Orphan Drug Act, one of the most significant pieces of drug legislation ever.

People who self-medicate with leftover antibiotics are helping to spread drug-resistant superbugs, according to a survey that found widespread ignorance about antibiotic use among Canadians.