A new AIDS vaccine tested on volunteers in Thailand protected a significant proportion of volunteers against infection, US and Thai researchers revealed Thursday in the first case of any vaccine even partly succeeding against the deadly disease.
US scientists have decoded the entire structure of the HIV virus genome that causes AIDS in humans, a new study says, raising fresh hopes for a breakthrough in research on new anti-viral treatments.
Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States, won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for ground-breaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.
France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier (pictured) won the 2008 Nobel prize for their discovery of the HIV virus, sharing it with a German scientist for his groundbreaking research into cervical cancer.
In a study published in the journal Science, American scientists have unveiled new evidence that confirms the link between an immunity gene and the production of neutralizing antibodies that could lead to an HIV vaccine.
The US-born essayist and epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani, a specialist of HIV/AIDS, shares her critical analysis of the priorities set by the 17th International Conference on AIDS held in Mexico City this week.
The semi-annual International AIDS conference has opened in Mexico, the first to take place in Latin America. More than 22,000 scientists, policymakers and field workers are attending.
Authorities acknowledged a US health study that revealed that HIV infections were 40% higher than thought. This comes just ahead of the 17th world AIDS conference, in Mexico.
The Red Ribbon Express, a train dedicated entirely to the prevention of AIDS, is travelling through India to explain how to protect oneself against the HIV virus to a mostly illiterate population.
