But the 2008 Nobel prize goes to Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier. In July 1985, US actor Rock Hudson announces he has AIDS. His death three months later is the first high-profile AIDS death.

It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease of the 1980s and 1990s is now affecting young people who were not even born when ...

Twenty years ago, HIV/AIDS was a death sentence in this region. The cemeteries were full every weekend – adults cut down in their prime; children dying without access to treatment. The virus ...

Cocktails of AIDS medicines have slashed death rates by more than 80 percent and now most patients taking the drugs can expect to survive more than a decade and perhaps much longer, scientists ...

we weren't aware of AIDS until the early 1980s. And then, it became an epidemic and people were scared to death. Absolutely scared to death," he said. The legendary East Tennessee journalist had ...

including those with HIV and AIDS. Guerrero’s manner of death was listed as “natural.” The medical examiner's press release reports that Guerrero arrived at a local hospital on the afternoon ...