Readers' wishes for 2024: TLC for Earth, an end to AIDS, more empathy, less light
Several weeks ago, we asked global health and development leaders to share a wish for the coming yea...
HIV
A vaginal ring that discreetly delivers anti-HIV drugs will reach more women
Women in a growing number of African countries will soon have access to a vaginal ring to help reduc...
What would it mean if PEPFAR — the widely hailed anti-HIV effort — isn't reauthorized?
Harry Hausler was speaking at an event a few months ago in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town township, where ...
Trump launched an ambitious effort to end HIV. House Republicans want to defund it.
More than four years ago, then-President Donald Trump declared an ambitious goal that had bipartisan...
George W. Bush's anti-HIV program is hailed as 'amazing' — and still crucial at 20
By 2003, the global HIV/AIDS situation was reaching its deadliest peak. The previous year, 4.8 milli...
FDA moves to ease restrictions on blood donations for men who have sex with men
Updated 12:55 p.m. ET The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued proposed guidance Friday to ease ...
From COVID to mpox to polio: Our 9 most-read 'viral' stories in 2022
Even though the public's interest in the pandemic began to wane in its third year, COVID still grabb...
This MacArthur 'genius' grantee says she isn't a drug price rebel but she kind of is
The day Priti Krishtel found out she won the MacArthur "genius grant" didn't start out as a particul...
The top White House monkeypox doc takes stock of the outbreak — and what's next
The U.S. monkeypox outbreak appears to be slowing. New infections are starting to decline in some la...
So you haven't caught COVID yet. Does that mean you're a superdodger?
Back in the early 1990s, Nathaniel Landau was a young virologist just starting his career in HIV res...