Mathematical modelling suggests that HIV incidence could be halved if circumcision were adopted in developing countries, however the impact would not be fully felt for many decades.

The President of the Swiss Federal AIDS Commission, which produced the controversial statement on the effect of treatment of HIV transmission earlier this year, made some qualifications to the statement on a panel of experts at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

There will be no simple solution to the HIV/AIDS crisis, delegates to the 17th International AIDS Society World AIDS Conference have been told.

Harvard Medical School researchers have identified a gene in Asian macaque monkeys may have evolved as protection against a group of viruses that includes HIV, suggesting that the current AIDS epidemic is not unique to humans and that similar epidemics may have affected our primate ancestors.

Is it acceptable to say that, in some situations, it is OK to look after your own interests when it comes to sex?

This year’s World AIDS Day theme presents an opportunity for people living with HIV to talk about our role in response to the HIV epidemic in this country, writes NAPWA President Robert Mitchell.

Half of new HIV infections by 2015 could be prevented if UNAIDS targets for HIV expenditure are met and evidence-based prevention programs are implemented, according to a new report.

HIV infections are on the rise nationwide, and the government is planning an advertising blitz aimed at gay men. If HIV is making a comeback, should positive gay men care? And if we do care, what can we do?

Gay men are being urgently warned to be sceptical of a genetic test being marketed in Australia which purports to indicate whether an individual may be immune to HIV infection.

Volunteers are now being sought for the clinical trial of an experimental preventive HIV vaccine. People at high risk of contracting HIV, aged between 18 and 45, who live in Sydney are eligible for the trial.