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The state of AIDS

PEPFAR and the future of the global fight against HIV

Health & Medicine

PEPFAR was launched in 2003 to stop the spread of HIV in Africa. Now, although some funding remains for the program, many of PEPFAR’s prevention and support services have stalled, as Dr. Atul Gawande, who led global health at USAID during the Biden administration, explains to The World’s Host Marco Werman.

How to reduce HIV in Zimbabwe? Make women uglier.

Politics

Startling rise in HIV/AIDS in US black community

Commentary

First HIV prevention drug approved by FDA in US

Lifestyle

Cure for AIDS: Two men are HIV free, but “cure” wrong word

Lifestyle

Namibia: HIV-positive women were sterilized without consent, court rules

Agence France-Presse

A court in Namibia ruled that three HIV-positive women were coerced into sterilization at state hospitals.

HIV made deadly strain of Salmonella, researchers say

Lifestyle

A Salmonella outbreak in Africa can be traced back to HIV.

AIDS vaccine ‘a step closer’ after HIV antibodies discovery

Lifestyle

Scientists found that two HIV-infected women in South Africa produced antibodies capable of neutralizing and killing 88 percent of known strains of the virus that causes AIDS.

New HIV color test to improve diagnosis in the developing world

Lifestyle

Scientists have come up with an HIV test that is ten times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of existing methods.

HIV infection rates fall 50 percent in 25 nations, report says

Lifestyle

New HIV infection rates are falling in sub-Saharan countries in Africa the most, World AIDS Day report says.