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Researchers from Guangzhou Medical University used a gene-editing technique CRISPR to artificially induce a mutation in human cells.

• 13 апреля 2016, 18:31

Turkmenistan has passed a law making HIV tests mandatory prior to marriage.

• 06 апреля 2016, 21:05

US researchers have found a way to turn a common smartphone into a quick and easy device to conduct field tests for HIV and syphilis.

• 05 февраля 2015, 13:49

Kazakhstan’s Center for Prevention and Combating AIDS observes changes in the age and gender statistics for new HIV cases.

• 23 января 2015, 20:33

China diagnosed 104,000 new cases of HIV/AIDS in 2014, highlighting growth in infections in the country despite a comparatively low overall rate.

• 16 января 2015, 13:53

Women who use a specific type of injectable birth control have a slightly higher risk of HIV infection than those who take the pill.

• 09 января 2015, 12:41

The questions teenagers ask about HIV are brutally honest, anonymous -- and sent in 160 characters or less over mobile phone text messages.

• 02 декабря 2014, 15:34

South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said.

• 26 июля 2014, 10:21

Australian authorities were urging 399 people in eastern Victoria state to have an HIV test after a health care worker was diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS.

• 16 июля 2014, 10:15

The World Health Organization urged all men who have gay sex to take antiretroviral drugs, warning that HIV infections are rising among homosexual men in many parts of the world.

• 12 июля 2014, 02:26

One of Greece's best-known proponents of gay rights, who is running for mayor of Athens, on Sunday said he is HIV positive in a taboo-breaking move.

• 17 февраля 2014, 12:26

Heart disease and stroke have replaced infectious disease as the top causes of early death in the Arab world, tracking the West in a trend towards lifestyle disorders.

• 21 января 2014, 10:42

India's Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality in a landmark judgment that crushes activists' hopes for guarantees on sexual freedom in the world's biggest democracy.

• 11 декабря 2013, 16:27

A single dose -- rather than the recommended three -- of a vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease HPV may be enough to ward off cervical cancer.

• 04 ноября 2013, 17:27

US scientists seeking to unravel the mysteries of HIV have made an important breakthrough after capturing the clearest image yet of a protein which allows the deadly virus to attack human immune cells, new research showed Tuesday.

• 02 ноября 2013, 14:05

A little girl who was treated for HIV shortly after birth still shows no sign of infection at age three, suggesting her apparent cure was not a fluke.

• 24 октября 2013, 15:50

A new form of HIV-1 virus has been found in Russia and registered in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Chechen Republic.

• 17 октября 2013, 00:25

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

Brazilian scientists have developed an HIV vaccine and plan to begin testing on monkeys later this year.

• 06 августа 2013, 13:25