Aids Cure

HIV Vaccine Okayed For Human Testing

The Huffington Post | Jocelyn Richard | Posted 12.20.2011

Canadian researchers received approval Tuesday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin testing an experimental and potentially breakthroug...

Obama, Bono, Other Activists Call For 'Beginning Of The End Of AIDS'

Posted 12.01.2011

The AIDS rate among minorities is on the rise and politicians and celebrities are determined to find a way to put an end to it. "The rate of new i...

Ending the AIDS Epidemic: Toward an AIDS-Free Generation

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.01.2011

Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

On this World AIDS Day -- 30 years after the first cases of HIV were reported in the U.S. and with 34 million people currently infected worldwide -- there is finally a roadmap for ending the AIDS epidemic globally and achieving an AIDS-free generation.

An Inspiring Vision: Creating an AIDS-Free Generation

Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD | Posted 01.09.2012

Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD

By treating a person living with HIV, you reduce the risk of transmission to a heterosexual partner by 96 percent. That is as powerful as any HIV vaccine for which we could hope. Simply put, treatment is prevention.

Thirty Years On, A Stark Choice on AIDS

Kevin Robert Frost | Posted 08.05.2011

Kevin Robert Frost

We've come a long way in 30 years, and in many respects progress on AIDS is one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of biomedical research.

Man Says His HIV Is Cured

The Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 07.16.2011

Back in December, word spread quickly that the "Berlin Patient" Timothy Ray Brown had apparently been cured of HIV. Brown is in the news again, tha...

First HIV-Positive Man Cured

The Huffington Post | Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has bee...

Scientists Discover Antibodies That Kill 90% Of HIV Strains

AOL News | Posted 05.25.2011

American scientists are touting a major stride toward a vaccine that can ward off HIV, after finding two key proteins that neutralize 91 percent of th...

Study: HIV Could Be Eliminated In A Decade

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

LONDON — The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates ar...

AIDS Patient Reportedly Cured

AP | PATRICK McGROARTY | Posted 05.25.2011

BERLIN — An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow trans...

A Potential Cure For AIDS

Wall Street Journal | MARK SCHOOFS | Posted 11.17.2011

The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on th...