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A drug that helps prevent babies from catching the AIDS virus at birth can also protect them getting the disease during breast-feeding.

People who took a drug to reduce outbreaks of genital herpes were no less likely to become infected with the AIDS virus, researchers found.

Swiss AIDS experts said Thursday that some people with HIV who are on stable treatment can safely have unprotected sex with non-infected partners.

U.S. regulators finalized a rule requiring makers of certain contraceptive gels, foams, films and inserts to carry a warning that the products do not protect against AIDS.

Audrey Serrano received HIV treatments for almost nine years before receiving a stunning diagnosis: She never actually had the virus that causes AIDS.

Pressure is building to shift attention away from technological fixes in the fight against AIDS. Many experts favor devoting more of the world's $10 billion annual AIDS spending to proven, lower-tech strategies against HIV, such as circumcising men, promoting sexual monogamy and making birth control more easily available to infected women.

Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests.

The U.S. government approved a novel anti-AIDS pill on Friday, offering a new option for hard-to-treat patients.

A study of doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and Oregon counters the argument that making it legal may lead to more of these deaths among vulnerable groups like the disabled, although it did find some evidence for this among people with AIDS.

Local hospital and government officials in China , despite official pledges at the national level to care for people with the virus that causes AIDS, frequently express reluctance to do so.