The Latest Breaking News from HIV

Global health officials say USAID cuts upended their work, as billionaire claims he will fix any defunding ‘right now’

A little over two decades ago, addressing Nigeria’s HIV crisis topped U.S. President George W. Bush’s priorities. Africa’s most populous nation had 3.5 million HIV cases, and the disease threatened to destabilize the region and ultimately compromise U.S. interests. These interests included securing access to Nigeria’s substantial oil reserves, maintaining…

The two countries have clashed over alleged persecution of white South Africans and Israel’s war on Gaza.

The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has put more than 8,000 health workers in South Africa’s national HIV program out of work

More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C, after receiving contaminated blood.

IN FOCUS : Uganda has some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world – with same-sex couples facing up to life imprisonment. Rachel Schraer speaks to Ugandans who have run out of HIV medication and finds out how already vulnerable communities are coping

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the Black Sea around 7000 B.C.

The Trump administration’s cuts to funding for scientific research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health in the US, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical research both in the US and around the world, nearly 800 grants have…

Key programs from child-support services to HIV treatment also gutted, leaving global populations vulnerable

Queer men, sex workers and people living with HIV are among those eligible for free vaccines up until June 30.

The inquiry is examining the ‘timeliness and adequacy of the Government’s response to compensation’.