Scientists have managed to remove DNA of the HIV virus from living tissue for the first time in a breakthrough that could lead to an outright cure. At the moment, treating the disease involves the use of drugs that suppress levels of the virus so the body’s immune system can cope. Now researchers in the US have revealed they used gene-editing technology to remove DNA of the commonest HIV-1 strain from several organs of infected mice and rats.

A deadly disease is rampant in Metro Atlanta, and scientists are calling it an epidemic. Channel 2's Dave Huddleston spoke with researchers and doctors who said Atlanta is the epicenter of that epidemic, comparing some neighborhoods to developing African countries. J.R. Watson is a towering man, and the only hair on his head is a handle-bar mustache. Just by looking at him, you'd never know he has AIDS. He recalled the moment he found out he was positive 20 years ago.

Five years after her rights were allegedly violated by a trusted custodian of her health, Harriet, an HIV-positive Ugandan who requested her real name not be used, still cannot bring herself to go anywhere near the hospital where the abuse took place. She tries not to think about the betrayal, and since finding out the shocking truth, has not come face-to-face with the doctor responsible for it. But the doctor’s image will be forever ingrained in Harriet’s memory.

The money was part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. It went to sex ed classes and public health messages in Africa. Effective or not? A new study offers a clear verdict.

Prescription painkiller abuse sparked an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana. Kelly McEvers takes NPR's new podcast, Embedded, inside the home where IV drug users meet.

Doctors say organ transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients will save lives and shorten wait times for everyone. NPR spoke with one doctor who helped end the 25-year ban.

A new health safety page provides prevention and testing information. The dating app Tinder agreed Thursday to provide information on testing locations for sexually transmitted diseases, ending a feud with a California advocacy group. Tinder has battled with the Los Angeles based AIDS Health Foundation since the group launched an ad campaign last fall linking the mobile dating app with the spread of STDs. Tinder responded to the charge with...

In Cambodia when people see a doctor they usually expect to get an injection or an intravenous drip - but this has serious, sometimes tragic, consequences.

More adolescents are killed by HIV/Aids around the world than by anything else, apart from road traffic accidents. While HIV infection rates have been falling globally in the past 10 years or so, among adolescents in some regions they have been on the rise - prompting fears of a "hidden epidemic". One in eight new HIV infections occurs in this group of young people.

Turing Pharmaceuticals AG will not reverse its decision to raise the price of a decades-old drug, Daraprim, by more than 5,000 percent, backing out of previous statements that it would cut the cost by the end of the year. In an announcement on Tuesday, the company said that the list price of Daraprim, which jumped from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill earlier this year, will not change. Instead, the company will offer hospitals up to 50 percent discounts and will make...

Turing will offer hospitals and patients discounts, but high list price stands.

When HIV and AIDS appeared they seemed to come from nowhere, but genetics has told us when and where the virus first entered the human population

Kenyan officials have come under fire from LGBT activists in the country over a case where authorities allegedly forced two men to undergo HIV and anal testing to verify whether or not they were gay — considered a crime in Kenya that can land someone in jail for up to 14 years. The Nairobi-based National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHC) filed a lawsuit this week against a judge and police station in the small coastal town of Msambweni...

Everyone who has H.I.V. should immediately be put on antiretroviral triple therapy and everyone at risk of becoming infected should be offered protective doses of similar drugs, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday as it issued new H.I.V. treatment and prevention guidelines.

Tinder has sent a cease and desist letter to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation after a billboard went up in Los Angeles last week that draws a link between dating apps and a growing rate of sexually t...

HIV can be flushed out of its hiding places in the body using a cancer drug, researchers show.

TORONTO -- Canada has virtually eliminated the incidence of mothers passing HIV to their infants at birth, primarily because of high rates of pre-natal testing and ready access to drug treatment that subdues the infection, researchers say.

The goal to get life-saving HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has been met, says the United Nations Aids agency.

Better access to antiretroviral drugs has transformed outlook for 15 million people with HIV, says UN, but more funding needed to avoid Aids comeback

By 2030, AIDS could be a thing of the past, a new UNAIDS report has concluded Since 2000, the number of new HIV cases has dropped by 35 percent -- from 3.1 million to 2 million. The drastic decline is