An international group of scientists on Sunday called for all adults who test positive for HIV to be treated with antiretroviral drugs right away rather than waiting for their immune systems to weaken.

The world's largest meeting on HIV/AIDS opened Sunday in the US capital as experts urged a speedier global response to the three-decade-long epidemic that killed 1.5 million people last year.

Chief executives of more than 20 multinational corporations called Sunday on 46 countries to lift restrictions on travellers who are HIV positive.

Leading AIDS charity amfAR honored Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates on the eve of the International AIDS Conference, for his part in funding an ongoing struggle against the disease.

Some 25,000 people, including celebrities, scientists and HIV sufferers are expected in the US capital Sunday to call for a jumpstart in the global response to the three-decade AIDS epidemic.

Leading AIDS charity amfAR honored Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates, on the eve of the International AIDS Conference, for his part in funding an ongoing struggle against the disease.

A documentary on the life of gay rights activist Vito Russo debuts Monday on pay cabler HBO. ?A documentary on the life of gay rights activist Vito Russo debuts Monday on pay cabler HBO. VITO had its world premiere at the 2011 New York Film Festival and opened the 2012 Oufest Film Festival in Los Angeles earlier this month. The film from award-winning director Jeffrey Schwarz (Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon) uses period footage and interviews with Russo to paint a touching portrait of Russo, one of the nation's most outspoken and inspiring gay rights activists. Appearing on MSNBC, Schwarz said he made VITO to ?reinvigorate his memory and introduce him to the next generation of gay and lesbian kids who are just coming out now who might not have heard of him.? ?In telling Vito's story, it was also an opportunity to tell the story of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement from the dark days before Stonewall to all the way through the AIDS crisis,? he said. Russo was an early member of th

Faced with the highest HIV-AIDS rates in the United States, community health activists in the nation's capital have come up with a novel way for people to save their own lives while killing time.

Mozambique on Saturday launched a Brazilian funded pharmaceutical plant that will make anti-retroviral drugs to battle the HIV/AIDS scourge in the southern African country.

Hundreds of sex workers from around the world who said they were denied visas to attend an international AIDS conference in the United States began their own meeting in Kolkata on Saturday in protest.

A toddler's cries ring out in a paediatric ward where about 20 children lie emaciated from malnutrition in this northern Mali town, whose occupation by Islamists has caused a humanitarian crisis.

The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease.

Faced with the highest HIV-AIDS rates in the United States, community health activists in the nation's capital have come up with a novel way for people to save their own lives while killing time.

The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says a cure for AIDS is in sight following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease.

Three decades of safe-sex messages to gays have failed to stem the spread of HIV among a population at greater risk of the AIDS virus than heterosexuals, experts warned in The Lancet on Friday.

International scientists on Thursday urged a new push for a cure to AIDS, saying the three-decade epidemic is outpacing medications to curb it.

About 117,000 babies were saved from HIV infection last year under South Africa's scheme to prevent mothers from passing on the disease during childbirth, health official said Thursday.

The star-studded world AIDS conference opening in Washington on Sunday will hear urgent appeals for funds at a crucial point in a war now in its fourth decade.

Deaths from HIV/AIDS are rising in parts of Asia and central Europe and the global response must accelerate, experts said after the release of a major report on the world AIDS epidemic.

Deaths from HIV/AIDS are rising in parts of Asia and central Europe and the global response must accelerate, experts said after the release of a major report on the world AIDS epidemic.