The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned of a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or MDR-TB. It said that a majority of the world's population are vulnerable to the new strain.

The Manila, Philippines-based WHO told reporters that MDR-TB can cross borders and that an "uncontrolled local epidemic" can threaten the stability of health security across the globe

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to spend $50 billion to battle HIV/Aids in the next five years. The bipartisan measure was passed by 308 to 116 votes in an effort to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS around the world, and fight tuberculosis and malaria.

The bill marks a huge increase from the $15 billion authorized during the first five years in 2003. The bill extends President Bush's program called PEPFAR (President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief) for another five years. The initiative would be the largest U.S. investment ever against a single disease

Researchers from Canada's University of Alberta (UA) have found a gene that keeps the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) inside a cell and prevents it from infecting other cells.

In a cell culture experiment, the researchers led by Dr. Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology of UA, found that when the gene TRIM22 is put in infected cells, HIV could not leave the cells to infect healthy cells thereby stopping the spread of the virus

A University of Rhode Island (URI) pharmacy professor developing compounds for treating cancers and AIDS is finalizing development of a topical cream that could be used by women during intercourse to prevent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.

Keykavous Parang, an associate professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences in URI's College of Pharmacy, and his team are developing anti-HIV-1 microbicides with or without spermicidal activity by combining agents having different mechanisms of action

More American men than women ages 18-49 are more likely to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS.

About half of 1 percent (0.47 percent) of the U.S. household population in the age group are living with HIV, according to estimates released Tuesday by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics