HIV-related deaths last year fell to around 770,000 -- some 33 percent lower than in 2010 -- the United Nations said Tuesday, but warned that global efforts to eradicate the disease were stalling as funding dries up.

A large clinical research study conducted in four African countries found no significant difference in risk of HIV infection among women using one of three highly effective, reversible contraceptive methods. Published in the Lancet, the study showed that each method had high levels of safety and effectiveness in preventing pregnancy, with all methods well-accepted by…

As part of measures to achieve zero prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome among young people in Nigeria, youths across different tertiary institutions have set out to implement HIV self-testing.....

HIV-suppressing medication can make the AIDS virus "untransmittable" even among couples who have sex without using condoms, new research showed Friday.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigeria is making steady progress in improving access to HIV/AIDS services through increased number of facilities offering such services in the country. He also said the President Muhammadu Buhari government was taking responsibility of care and treatment of people living with HIV in Taraba and Abia states, placing…

In a first on the quest to cure Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV), University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, United States (U.S.), scientists reported on Sunday in EBioMedicine that they have developed an all-in-one immunotherapy approach that not only kicks HIV out of hiding in the immune system, but also kills it. The key…

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report says men are more likely to die earlier than women due to uneven access to health services. According to “2019 World Health Statistics” published on the WHO website on Thursday, the trend is similar in low and high-income countries as men often seek health care services less than women.…

Nigeria has recorded about 40.6 percent decline in the number of persons infected with the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from 3.229 million people with a prevalence of 3.0 per cent in 2014 to 1.9 million with a prevalence of 1.4 in 2019. This decline has moved Nigeria from second position on countries with highest…

As part of efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS, experts in the Nigerian healthcare sector have called for improved education on the disease to enable ...

The results of the first national Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) survey would be announced today in Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari.

An Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) positive man in the United Kingdom (UK) is the second person ever to be declared in remission from the virus, a new study reveals. The unidentified ‘London patient’ has been free of the virus for 18 months without viral-suppressing treatment after a stem cell transplant to treat his cancer. The…

For just the second time ever an HIV patient is in sustained remission from the virus in what was hailed by experts Tuesday as proof that the AIDS-causing condition could one day be curable. Ten years almost to the day since the first confirmed case of an HIV-infected person being rid of the deadly disease,…