HIV is surging among adults over 50 in sub-Saharan Africa, yet prevention and treatment campaigns still focus mainly on the young. New research reveals older adults face comparable or higher infection ...

Emmanuel Cherem, a 25-year-old gay man in Nigeria, tested positive for HIV two months after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration cut access for at-risk groups like gay men and injecting drug ...

Professor Francois Venter refuses to pull his punches, and he has publicly excoriated both the President and the health ...

According to a 2015 UNAIDS report, young women aged 15- 24 had the highest risk of being infected with HIV. In sub-Saharan Africa, the most affected region in the world, the situation is even more ...

South Africa has more people with HIV than any other country in the world. Roughly 5.5 million of its 53 million citizens are infected with the virus.

South Africa’s HIV failures cost more than 300,000 lives. Now this painful past is helping in Covid-19 fight.

Infectious disease expert Dr. Dave Wessner explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted HIV patients in parts of Africa. When the world first became aware of Covid-19, public health experts ...

The number of people in sub-Saharan Africa becoming newly infected with HIV has plummeted from 2.1 million in 1993 to 640,000 within 30 years — a 70 percent drop.

Patients at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 28, 2014. Nkosi's Haven provides residential care for destitute HIV-positive mothers and their children, whether HIV-positive ...

A trial of an experimental HIV vaccine in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa has been stopped early after preliminary data suggested it would not be effective in preventing infection, according to ...

We can win the fight against HIV in Africa. But this virus is a resilient adversary. If we truly want to win, we must give African women opportunities to lead the battle.

Today, Africa still has the highest number of people living with HIV — roughly 26 million. But there's been major progress in slowing down the virus, say public health experts.