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Red Cross officials report that 80% of Tigray's 6 million people are unreachable. In the regional capital of Mekelle, which is now home to 250,000 displaced people, vaccines have expired and there are no longer any HIV or tuberculosis drugs.
2021-02-10

The United States National Institutes of Health stops its trial of an experimental HIV vaccine (HVTN 702) amidst poor results. The trial involved more than 5,000 people in South Africa.
2020-02-3

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

Anti-retroviral drugs reduce the risk of people spreading HIV to uninfected partners by 96%, according to a new study.
2011-05-12

Donald Elmer, the Chief Executive of a small U.S.–based pharmaceutical company, Koronis, said that he is looking to raise money through London's Alternative Investment Market, thus enabling the next stage of clinical tests for his company's anti-HIV product, KP-1461.
2011-03-13

A Chinese court accepts its first case relating to a man claiming job discrimination on the grounds he had HIV.
2010-08-31

German HIV-positive pop singer Nadja Benaissa is found guilty of grievous bodily harm after transmitting HIV to a man who had unprotected sex with her without her telling him of her condition.
2010-08-26

Three Namibian women sue the state after they are sterilised without their informed consent after being diagnosed as HIV positive.
2010-06-1

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

South African President Jacob Zuma announces that he is HIV-negative in an effort to promote AIDS awareness.
2010-04-25