Today, on the eve of World AIDS Day, UCSF is scheduled to announce that it's receiving a $20 million grant to find a cure for AIDS over the next five years. It's part of a $100 million effort by the ...

For much of the 31-year story of the AIDS epidemic, it was virtually taboo to use the word "cure." Now, after decades of focus on prevention and treatment, Deeks and other researchers say that it ...

Lenacapavir prevents infection and treats HIV, not a 'cure' HIV is the virus that causes AIDS − a disease in which the immune system is damaged to the point that its ability to resist infection ...

Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S.

And on World AIDS Day last December, President Obama announced $100 million in reprioritized funding over the next three years to launch a new HIV Cure Initiative at the National Institutes of Health.

For just the second time, a patient with AIDS appears to have been cured after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a genetic mutation. But the mutation is rare, raising ...

A small human study may point the way to a cure for AIDS. Behind the stunning results is a totally new approach to HIV treatment. It makes use of an epilepsy drug -- valproic acid -- that flushes ...

It’s time to more firmly plant the need for an HIV cure on the policy agenda, write Dr. Mark Dybul and Dr. Sharon Lewin. While interventions that lead to a meaningful cure are at least decades ...

Yesterday was World AIDS Day, so we thought it was a perfect opportunity to catch up with local AIDS researcher and Greenwich resident Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, who since 1981 has been prominently ...

The AIDS Cure. Reservoirs of HIV hide deep within the body. Scientists are now closing in on methods to wipe them out. By Apoorva Mandavilli. Published Mar 7, 2014 7:00 PM EST. PSC0414_AIDS_2 .

Re "Forget the patents on AIDS drugs," Opinion, Oct. 9 Lara Santoro writes as if there were a cure for AIDS, saying cheap copies of medicines would help patients.

(AP) WASHINGTON - For years it seemed hopeless. Now the hunt for a cure for AIDS is back on. International AIDS specialists on Thursday released what they call a road map for research toward a ...