June 5 2015 marks 34 years since the first reports of AIDS in a medical journal.
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HIV has infected over seventy million people but only one of them has been cured: Timothy Ray Brown. An HIV-positive resident of Berlin, Germany, Brown developed relapsed leukemia in 2006. To treat the…
Two years ago, the “beginning of the end” of AIDS was announced. It included the promise of reducing HIV transmission by reducing the amount of infectious virus in the population. This relies on a two-pronged…
When AIDS first emerged in the early 1980s, HIV infection was a death sentence. But a global effort has ensured this is no longer the case for a growing number of people. The good news today is that the…
This article was updated at 12.30pm on Saturday July 19. The international AIDS community is mourning the deaths of researchers, community activists, health workers and people with HIV whose plane was…
The field of HIV treatment and prevention has been freshly energised by the findings from several recent clinical trials. Maintaining the momentum of scientific discoveries and breakthroughs is critical…
In the three decades since the virus was identified, Australia has done well by international standards in keeping HIV infection rates down. But certain aspects of our national approach continue to risk…
Scientists in the US have genetically modified the immune cells of 12 HIV positive patients, to make them HIV resistant…
A team of researchers has for the first time identified a new gene which may have the ability to prevent HIV, the virus that…
US doctors have reported that, for the first time ever, a baby has been cured of HIV following drug treatment within hours of her birth. The findings, which centre on a child under the care of Dr Hannah…
New research has revealed no correlation between religious observance and AIDS in Africa. Socioligist Jenny Trinitapoli found…
The Grim Reaper television commercial is infamous in Australia. Reminiscent of B-grade gothic horror flicks, the cloaked reaper stands in a foggy bowling alley poised to strike down a group of deadpan…
A paper exploring HIV-positive women’s accounts of their use and non-use of treatments for the prevention of mother-to-child…
Twenty years after his discovery that peptic ulcers were caused by a bacteria called Helicobacter pylori, Nobel Prize winner Barry Marshall is using the same bacteria as the base of an edible vaccine that…
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Global Health and Director, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Melbourne Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Director for basic and translational science, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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Research Director at The Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Research and Teaching Fellow, School of Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington