Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth following a highly effective, worldwide vaccination campaign. Paralytic poliomyelitis is no longer a problem in the U.S. because of development ...

ATLANTA - "The first cases of what we know term AIDS were discovered and reported to CDC in June of 1981," says Jim Curran, Dean of Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. In the early ...

A London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant, the second success for this rare and difficult treatment plan, doctors reported. Such transplants are dangerous and have ...

As the world observes HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, attention turns to education, stigma reduction, and empowering communities to ...

A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a working immune system to 48 babies and toddlers who were born without one, doctors reported Tuesday. Results show that all ...

"There is no virus there that we can measure," HIV biologist Ravindra Gupta told Reuters of the man in question, who was previously diagnosed HIV positive A patient in London who was previously ...

A cheap, generic drug long used to treat herpes may also help control the AIDS virus, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. They found that acyclovir can work against HIV, but only in tissues that ...

Does it seem like your child knows more about HIV/AIDS than you do? Although children learn about AIDS in school and from their friends, parents have a very important job in helping their children ...

The number of deaths attributed to the AIDS virus has declined by one-third worldwide since 2010, according to a new report by UNAIDS, a joint United Nations program. There were 770,000 AIDS-related ...

The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV back to ...