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A Crown Court in England jails Daryll Rowe for life with a minimum of 12 years for deliberately infecting five men with HIV and attempting to infect five more. He is the first person convicted of deliberate HIV transmission in the United Kingdom.
2018-04-18

Thousands of delegates of the African National Congress gather in Johannesburg to elect a party leader, who may replace President Jacob Zuma before his term expires in 2019.
2017-12-16

A research team led by an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona publishes a paper in "Nature" on the genetic history of HIV proving that Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian flight attendant who had been identified for years as "Patient Zero" of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., did not spread the virus to the country. The study indicates that HIV first spread to the U.S. from the Caribbean around 1970.
2016-10-26

A study finds that taking the AIDS drug tenofovir greatly reduces the risk of HIV infection among intravenous drug users.
2013-06-12

Two studies show that antiretroviral drugs taken to treat AIDS can also be used to prevent infection with HIV.
2011-07-13

Pope Benedict XVI says his personal opinion is that condoms may be used "in exceptional cases" to combat HIV-AIDS, but the Vatican says it has not changed its policy on contraception.
2010-11-21

The Pope encounters thousands of Facebook protesters after a seven-week online campaign against his views on contraception and HIV-AIDS.
2010-05-11

The inaugural African Grandmother Gathering convenes in Swaziland to discuss HIV-AIDS.
2010-05-6

Washington, D.C. is to become the first American city to hand out free female condoms in the battle against HIV-AIDS.
2010-03-6

A petition featuring 450,000 international names in opposition of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill is given to the speaker of parliament, Edward Ssekandi, by an Anglican priest and an HIV-AIDS activist.
2010-03-1