Debra Fraser-Howze, president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, talks about what can be done to slow the HIV/AIDS crisis in black America. Now, for more of what can be done ...

Several hundred African HIV/AIDS advocates on Tuesday marched in Senegal's capital of Dakar to urge U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to fulfill funding ...

The HIV prevention shot, lenacapavir, will be rolled out at South African clinics within the next couple of months and from ...

AIDS patients and government officials on Friday celebrated the 10th anniversary of a pioneering program that brought AIDS drugs to impoverished South Africans, a ...

In 2003 2.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa died of AIDS and 3.1 million more were infected with HIV, bringing the total number of HIV infections to 25.4 million. Though AIDS is a worldwide ...

Doctors across the continent of Africa have seen a 50 percent decline in new cases of HIV since 2005, according to “Results,” the World AIDS Day report prepared by the Joint United Nations Programme ...

According to UNAIDS, five African nations have met the '95-95-95' objectives for eradicating AIDS by 2030. The 95-95-95 objectives were introduced by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's health minister on Tuesday called lenacapavir, the first twice-yearly HIV prevention jab in the world, a “groundbreaking” tool to fight the disease, but warned initial ...

Harare — Imagine the reaction of the developed nations on the grim news that every American that resides in the states of Texas and Tennessee will die before the end of this decade from a deadly ...

So far, AIDS has claimed more than 15 million lives in sub-Saharan Africa and has left behind 11 million orphans. By 2010, it's estimated that 20 million of the subcontinent's children will have lost ...

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The HIV and AIDS crisis in Africa was—and still is—devastating for the continent’s population. Despite only making up 6.2% of the world’s population, Eastern and Southern Africa is home to 54% of all ...