The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an AIDS drug made by Gilead to treat patients with hepatitis B. The drug Viread has been available in the U.S. as a treatment for HIV infection in adults since 2001.

The FDA is joining regulators in Europe, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand by allowing the drug in U.S. Generically known as tenofovir, the drug is taken in the form of a pill once daily. It works by blocking HBV DNA polymerase, the enzyme that is necessary for the virus to replicate in liver cells

The life-threatening disease of AIDS might be preventable and curable by 2031, the head of U.S. infectious disease research said Thursday.

Aggressive treatment of HIV infection shortly after infection has made it possible to live symptom-free without medicines for HIV patients

A Indian couple diagnosed with AIDS killed their three children and later committed suicide after learning that their six-year-old daughter was also diagnosed with HIV.

Babu Ishwar Thevar, 39, his wife, Amothi, 33, two sons Venkatesh, 10, and Mani, 8, and daughter, Mahalaxmi, 6, were found dead in their home on Tuesday night at their home here

Canada's health minister defended the government's position against safe injection sites at an AIDS conference here Wednesday.

The government supports needle exchanges as a legitimate intervention, but providing a site to facilitate the injection of illegal drugs is going too far, Tony Clement told the Globe and Mail in an interview here while attending the 17th International AIDS Conference

Inferior medical care for HIV-positive immigrant detainees threatens their health, and ultimately their lives, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday at the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

HRW told conferees that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - the agency charged with providing health care services to detainees - fails to ensure timely HIV prevention and treatment services, putting many at risk of infection, resistance to treatment, and even death