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A follow-up probe into the use of circumcision to thwart the AIDS virus has confirmed that foreskin removal greatly reduces the risk of HIV infection for men.

• 04 сентября 2013, 19:01

A landmark five-year trial has strengthened evidence that early use of antiretroviral drugs helps children combat the AIDS virus.

• 22 августа 2013, 19:05

This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid program.

• 18 июня 2013, 12:16

Giving injecting drug users a daily pill against HIV nearly halved their risk of infection by the AIDS virus.

• 13 июня 2013, 15:01

Former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski on Sunday called for drug decriminalisation at the opening of a global conference to curb the spread of HIV, with backing from the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

• 11 июня 2013, 10:04

Rock icon Elton John has urged compassion for people who inject drugs, saying "stigma and criminalisation" robbed them of their humanity and exposed them to a life of addiction and disease.

• 06 июня 2013, 13:12

A small French study of 14 HIV patients who have remained healthy for years after stopping drug treatment offers fresh evidence that early medical intervention may lead to a "functional cure" for AIDS.

• 15 марта 2013, 14:30

Researchers said Sunday they had, for the first time, cured a baby born with HIV -- a development that could help improve treatment of babies infected at birth.

• 04 марта 2013, 11:17

Two Shymkent children have been expelled from school because of their HIV-positive status.

• 22 октября 2012, 11:34

A new pill to treat HIV infection -- combining two previously approved drugs plus two new ones -- has been approved for adults living with the virus that causes AIDS, US regulators said Monday.

• 28 августа 2012, 12:15

Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the three-decade-old disease.

• 28 июля 2012, 14:08

Investigators are looking into two main paths toward a cure for AIDS, based on the stunning stories of a small group of people around the world who have been able to overcome the disease.

• 26 июля 2012, 15:39

Science has given the world "no excuse" to resist bold action against the spread of the 30-year AIDS pandemic, said a top US expert at the opening of the International AIDS Conference on Sunday.

• 24 июля 2012, 10:04

Three decades of safe-sex messages to gays have failed to stem the spread of HIV among a population at greater risk of the AIDS virus than heterosexuals, experts warned in The Lancet on Friday.

• 21 июля 2012, 13:21

Faced with the highest HIV-AIDS rates in the US, community health activists in the nation's capital have come up with a novel way for people to save their own lives while killing time.

• 21 июля 2012, 10:26

The star-studded world AIDS conference opening in Washington on Sunday will hear urgent appeals for funds at a crucial point in a war now in its fourth decade.

• 20 июля 2012, 10:02

The first-ever daily pill to help prevent HIV infection was approved Monday by US regulators for use by healthy adults who are at risk for getting the virus that causes AIDS.

• 18 июля 2012, 12:12

The number of HIV-positive women who resolve to give birth to children is growing in Kazakhstan.

• 04 июня 2012, 10:54

More than 3.6 thousand HIV-positive people have died since this disease was registered in Kazakhstan.

• 25 мая 2012, 16:34

AIDS rate dropped almost by 10% in Kazakhstan in 2011.

• 13 января 2012, 17:18