In an effort to provide free HIV/AIDS care -- including lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ART) -- to people living with advanced AIDS Thai authorities will open their first free AIDS treatment clinic. The facility located in the region near Lop Buri 75 miles north of Bangkok will extend life and bring hope for people living with HIV/AIDS.

The clinic, which will be known as the 'Wat Phrabatnampo-Center of Hope' is located on the grounds of Wat Phrabatnampo -- Thailand's world-renowned AIDS temple. Since 1992 the temple has been the site for thousands of Thais living with AIDS to receive hospice care

Former President Bill Clinton's Foundation has reached an agreement with two drug companies to offer HIV/AIDS drugs at lower prices to 66 developing nations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The deal, brokered by the Clinton Foundation's Procurement Consortium, will provide 16 different formulas of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) to patients who develop a resistance to a first-line of medication. The deal will cut prices by 25 percent in low-income countries and 50 percent in middle-income countries

Research unveils a new class of anti-HIV drugs that showed 'effective' results for AIDS patients. The research is reported in the latest issue of British journal The Lancet.

The new class of drugs called integrase-inhibitors. Researchers at Merck Research Laboratories tested raltegravir a drug belongs to integrase-inhibitors, on 178 patients with advanced HIV. The patients in the study had been failing to improve on existing treatments and got positive results with raltegravir

American scientists say antiretroviral drugs, which are used to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child, may cause genetic damage in infants that may increase their risk of developing cancer.

Two new studies published in the latest issue of Environment and Molecular Mutagenesis suggest that there are cancer-causing effects of transplacental exposure to AZT (an antiretroviral drug) in mice and rats and found increased rates of tumors and tumors with gene changes that frequently occur in human cancer

In response to claims in Gambia (a small West African country) of a new AIDS cure, the United Nations (U.N.) agencies responded by calling for "evidence-based" treatments for the AIDS pandemic on March 16.

The U.N. agencies believe it is very important to emphasize that there is no cure for AIDS in existence today and that evidence is necessary to approach AIDS treatments