The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic. ...more

August 3, 2008

A nine-year ban on city funding for needle-exchange programs in the District of Columbia has been lifted, a move city officials say is key to reducing the soaring rate of AIDS and HIV infections in the nation's capital. ...more

December 28, 2007

The world must not grow complacent about AIDS because the number of new HIV infections still outpaces the number of those being treated for the disease, former South African President Nelson Mandela said at a benefit concert Saturday. ...more

December 2, 2007

New government estimates of the number of Americans who become infected with the AIDS virus each year are 50 percent higher than previously thought, sources said Friday. ...more

December 1, 2007

The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now think has been ebbing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement. ...more

November 20, 2007

In a disappointing setback, a promising experimental AIDS vaccine failed to work in a large international test, leading the developer to halt the study. ...more

September 22, 2007