HIV & AIDS NEWS UPDATES ON CURES, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT

Detectives are slammed for releasing hairdresser accused of infecting gay men with HIV on bail for him to target more victims - with one saying: 'He should never have been let out of the police station' 

17/11/17 10:33

16/11/17 09:23

The extent of Daryll Rowe's malicious scheme to take 'revenge' on the gay community in Brighton and the North East by infecting them with HIV has been laid bare by one of his victims.

15/11/17 22:12

Daryll Rowe, originally from Edinburgh, infected five men from the Brighton area and the North East with HIV while five others narrowly escaped contracting the life-changing virus.

15/11/17 15:52

Prince Harry has thrown his weight behind HIV Testing Week as he handed out self-testing kits at a pop-up clinic in London, and urged people to check their status.

13/11/17 20:02

Until this study by McGill University, research suggested that even those who take anti-retroviral therapy had a higher risk of brain disorders than the general population.

13/11/17 13:55

Timothy Brown, the 51-year-old American man known as the 'Berlin patient', was declared HIV-free in 2007 after two bone marrow transplants at a hospital in Berlin.

08/11/17 16:23

Keke Palmer defied convention at the Elton John's Foundation Fall Gala in New York on Tuesday night, as she traded in the event's usual black-tie dress code for a saucier ensemble.

08/11/17 16:10

Last week they announced the happy news that they're expecting their fourth child and the couple were back on the red carpet on Tuesday.

04/11/17 13:24

A full inquiry will be carried out into the contaminated blood scandal, the Government has announced. It happened in the 1970s and 1980s when NHS bought blood from the US.

04/11/17 05:30

As birth rates in the US continue to decline, deaths from age-related diseases are on the rise, according to new quarterly estimates from the CDC released today.

03/11/17 17:21

Daryll Rowe is on trial accused of infecting four men from the Brighton area with the virus and attempting to give it to a further six.

03/11/17 01:56

Daryll Rowe, 27, insisted alternative therapies were better to treat the virus and read online that taking prescribed anti-retroviral would stop his urine killing it, Lewes Crown Court heard.

30/10/17 12:47

Valentino Talluto called himself 'Hearty Style' as he seduced dozens of young women on social networks and internet dating sites, often dating several at a time, a court in Rome, Italy, was told.

26/10/17 20:43

The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a law requiring people with HIV to inform sex partners. Challengers argue it is based on stigmas against the gay community.

26/10/17 08:45

A Cabinet memo from 1987 suggests there was a deliberate policy not to accept responsibility for the way contaminated blood products had been given to haemophiliacs.

25/10/17 21:20

The siblings, who lost their famous father in 2009, held hands as they posed for photos.

25/10/17 15:28

Daryll Rowe, 26, allegedly had sex with at least 10 men in Brighton he met on Grindr after being diagnosed as HIV positive and either refused to wear a condom or 'sabotaged' the contraception.

25/10/17 14:20

Daryll Rowe, 26, from Edinburgh, is accused of infecting four men and attempting to infect a further six, but on arrest he claimed he had been framed for the offences, a court heard.

25/10/17 11:57

The British presenter, 39, was on hosting duties at the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and the nonprofit mothers2mothers in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.

24/10/17 19:00

Carlos Bell, 30, is accused of abusing the pupils aged 11 to 17 from May 2015 to June 2017 at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School in Waldorf, Maryland. He is charged with five counts of attempted transfer of HIV.

23/10/17 22:55

Betty Price, a Republican state representative in Atlanta and a trained anesthesiologist, made the staggering claims at a hearing on Tuesday to discuss healthcare and HIV treatment.

22/10/17 19:07

The last unknown structure of HIV has been solved by scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Understanding the final piece could help scientists to 'disarm' the virus from attaching to healthy cells.

20/10/17 12:08

Minutes of an amFAR board meeting in October 2016 include details from chairman and shoe designer Kenneth Cole describing his interactions with the Hollywood producer.

18/10/17 21:56

Scientists at Scripps Research Institute in Florida have developed a new therapy that they say may one day be a 'functional cure' for HIV, if it proves as effective in humans as it has in mice.

18/10/17 10:11

Fans of the music legend took to Twitter to share their grief at the singer's passing, after the revealing documentary aired on Channel 4 on Monday night. George passed away on Christmas Day aged 53.

17/10/17 01:42

An alleged victim hairdresser Daryll Rowe, 26, (pictured) accused of deliberately infecting his lovers with HIV said he was 'starstruck' by him at Lewes Crown Court today.

16/10/17 20:12

Daryll Rowe, 26, originally from Edinburgh, allegedly set out to spread the virus by pressuring his lovers into unprotected sex and claiming he was free of the disease. Rowe denies the charges.

13/10/17 08:09

The craze involves inserting the peeled fruit into intimate parts before twisting it around. Dr Jen Gunter, from Canada, says it upsets the natural pH balance of your intimate bits.

12/10/17 17:55

George Michael revealed the trauma of losing his first love to AIDs sent him into a depression in a new documentary which the late singer edited and directed about his life.

12/10/17 15:40

EXCLUSIVE: Ed, 26, teamed up with AIDS charity (RED) to auction a private serenade and pizza party on Omaze and starred in a funny new video for the cause.

11/10/17 20:49

A new report by Kaiser Permanente San Francisco has shown things are changing in New York: with a surge of 976 percent in PrEP prescriptions between 2014 and 2016.

11/10/17 14:24

Daryll Rowe, 26, from Brighton, denies infecting four men with the virus and attempting to give it to a further six. But a former boyfriend claimed Rowe was paranoid and would become aggressive.

11/10/17 11:58

HIV-positive David Cox, 52, was caught by vigilantes Internet Interceptors trying to meet a '12-year-old boy' for sex in a park in Wolverhampton with a bag of Viagra.

10/10/17 21:48

The Fox News host was the voice of The Pursuit of Happiness, a show run by the University of California's radio station KCSB, when he made the comments in 1989.

10/10/17 15:19

Daryll Rowe, who is originally from Edinburgh but was living in Brighton at the time, denies infecting four men with the virus and attempting to infect a further six men with the virus.

10/10/17 00:04

A court heard of the moment a man found out Daryll Rowe (pictured), 26, of Brighton, had infected him with HIV. He text him: 'Maybe you have the fever. I have HIV LOL. Oops!'

09/10/17 23:04

A new bill was signed into law on Friday, making the knowing transmission of HIV to a partner a misdemeanor crime, rather than a felony. The law is meant to destigmatize HIV.

06/10/17 19:20

Until now, the CDC has refused to say for certain that people who take HIV drugs are not a danger to society. But in a letter published last week, the agency changed its stance.

06/10/17 16:02

Daryll Rowe, 29, from Edinburgh, allegedly spurned offers of help after contracting the virus and sleeping with at least ten men he met on gay dating app Grindr.

06/10/17 10:54

Figures collected by Public Health England show there was just 2,810 cases of HIV among gay and bisexual men in 2016 - down from the 3,570 the year before.

05/10/17 21:46

Lewes Crown Court heard Daryll Rowe (pictured right) texted one of his victims saying: 'Maybe you have the fever cos I came inside you and I have HIV, lol. Whoops!'

28/09/17 22:53

Howard Stern and Donald Trump talked about the possibility of requiring women to get HIV tests before Trump would have sex with them. He said he would require Princess Diana to have such a test.

27/09/17 08:36

The case concerns imported blood-clotting products which caused haemophiliacs and others to be infected. So far the scandal has led to the deaths of at least 2,400 NHS patients.

27/09/17 01:33

The diagnosis rate among older Britons rose by an average annual rate of 3.6 per cent over the 12 years to 2015, according to research in The Lancet.

26/09/17 20:57

Patients with HIV and hepatitis C that drank three or more cups of coffee a day had double the survival rates of those that drank less, according to a new french study.

26/09/17 19:33

A union of top professors from four leading universities - Harvard, Baylor, Florida and Texas - are uniting to present research on the impending anal cancer epidemic in America.

24/09/17 22:33

Emergency Medical Technician Tracy Allen Lee will be memorialized after dying from AIDS 20 years ago from contracting the virus while treating a patient in New York City.

23/09/17 17:25

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is at the center of row among board members of AIDS charity amfAR over the proceeds of an auction proceed. It has been referred to New York's attorney general.

18/09/17 21:05

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital studied HIV patients' risk of dying from the disease or from lung cancer. They found people were 10 times more likely to die from lung cancer.

18/09/17 12:49

Daryll Rowe, 26, from Edinburgh, was accused of infecting two men with HIV in Brighton - but the number of alleged victims who have come forward has risen and now stands at ten.

16/09/17 08:07

Brazilian designer Anselmo Feleppa died in 1993 after the Wham! singer - who passed away aged 53 on Christmas Day 2016 - nursed him in secret for four years.

14/09/17 20:37

Aaron Carter addresses his health concerns and fears that he could be HIV-positive on the second part of a special two-episode edition of 'The Doctors' on Thursday. 'I need help, I'm scared,' says Carter.

14/09/17 17:52

Calling the televised moment 'scariest thing [he'd] ever done' on Thursday, the former child star, 29, described how he had put sexual partners at risk by having unprotected sex.

14/09/17 04:15

Researchers in Cambridge believe they have solved the problem by 'unblocking' a process linked to an HIV protein that was halting the production of 'B-cells' from the immune system.

09/09/17 15:59

An unnamed New York City man's HIV diagnosis was mistakenly sent to his workplace by Mount Sinai St Luke's Hospital in 2014. He is now suing the hospital in a $2.5million negligence lawsuit.

08/09/17 17:22

Salma Hayek and Sienna Miller offered some stellar support at a breakfast thrown by children's Aids charity mothers2mothers at Mark's Club in Mayfair, London.

06/09/17 18:51

The former hedge fund manager and drug company executive put the only copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin on the site for $1. The price has reached $70,000.

06/09/17 04:55

Few studies have looked at how PrEP would affect younger users, who are at highest risk of getting HIV through sex. Now research published by JAMA shows fears of side effects are unfounded.

25/08/17 07:31

The couple displayed their shared sense of humour when they stepped out of the esteemed Bacara Resort & Spa wearing matching moustaches, in a comical bid to go incognito.

25/08/17 00:49

Patients were in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and D.C. Lawyers claim numerous patients' relatives and neighbors learned of their status.

24/08/17 14:04

The World Health Organization said the leading cause of death is now lower respiratory tract infections. HIV/AIDS killed 760,000 Africans in 2015, and was the top cause since at least 2000.

23/08/17 16:13

Suleiman Abdirizak, 42, is alleged to have attacked the woman as he drove her from a night out in Hoxton, east London last year, ordering: 'I'll only drive you if you suck my d***'.

17/08/17 09:59

The Church of England priest, who shot to fame in the 1980s pop group The Communards, claimed he was HIV positive during a row with his bandmate Jimmy Somerville.

16/08/17 11:37

Antonio Reyes-Minana (pictured) had unprotected sex with two men separately in 2008 and 2012, despite knowing that he had been infected with the virus, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

09/08/17 11:21

Noel Edmonds made a series of bizarre claims in a newly unearthed interview from 2015, where he said death does not exist and that Wi-fi poses a greater risk to health than Ebola.

07/08/17 14:43

The man, who lives in New York, applied for Truvada's PrEP in July to protect himself from the life-threatening disease. But he received a denial letter from United, citing his sexuality as a reason.

03/08/17 22:27

NHS England announced that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a pill taken before sex which has been shown to reduce the risk of infection by up to 86 per cent, will soon be available.

31/07/17 01:00

The Department of Health-funded study recommends the move towards HIV testing in 74 high-risk areas. It would cost £4million - or £25 for each test - and could help prevent spread of AIDS.

27/07/17 15:34

Scientists at the US Military HIV Research Program tested the effects of 'broadly neutralising antibodies' on a small study of 18 people - including the unidentified man.

25/07/17 23:58

Researchers from George Washington University found that a 10-fold increase in certain bacterial species raises the risk of the virus' infection in uncircumcised men by 54 to 63 percent.

25/07/17 16:52

Dr David Margolis, from the US pharmaceutical company ViiV Healthcare, said: 'Adherence to medication remains an important challenge in HIV treatment.

25/07/17 16:49

Researchers from the University of New South Wales found that no new cases of HIV arose among gay men with infected partners despite them having regular sex without condoms for four years.

25/07/17 03:54

An expert from The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne believes parallels between the two conditions supports similar treatments being used for both,

24/07/17 19:59

A baby from South Africa was given a short course of treatment shortly after birth. At 9 years old is no longer displaying symptoms or signs of the virus being active without any further treatment.

24/07/17 16:48

Sir Elton John has praised Princess Diana's work as an Aids activist in a touching conversation with her youngest son Prince Harry.

23/07/17 17:44

Scientists now say that a virus or infection will be picked up in blood tests within three months of contracting it, leading to the new rule that relaxes blood donor restrictions for 'at risk' groups.

21/07/17 13:37

Global fatality numbers fell to one million last year from 1.9 million in 2005, according to a report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids. The report claims the 'scales have been tipped'.

21/07/17 05:30

Researchers from multiple institutions, including Texas A&M; University, found that when HIV was injected into cows, all of the animals developed an immune response in as little as 35 days.

20/07/17 01:16

Colin Smith died aged seven in 1990 after contracting HIV and Hepatitis C. His parents Colin Snr and Janet, from Newport, South Wales, say their son was given 'death sentence'.

19/07/17 20:01

Scientist at the University of Illinois used the Titan supercomputer to create a 64-million-atom simulation, showing 1.2 microseconds of the life of a ‘protein cage’ that carries HIV in the body.

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