A researcher from the Université de Montréal and the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital has discovered the mechanism that prevents the regeneration of CD4+ T lymphocytes, which are white cells that are required for the proper functioning of the immune system.

The apparent success of a case in which German doctors cured a man of AIDS using a bone marrow transplant comes as no surprise to Gerhard Bauer, a UC Davis stem cell researcher. Bauer has been working for more than 10 years on a similar cure for AIDS based on replacing the devastated immune system of an HIV-infected patient with stem cells that have been engineered to resist human immunodeficiency syndrome.

Today is World AIDS Day. And although it’s been 25 years since the discovery of HIV, more people in the United States are infected daily than are treated.

Applying the (RED) idea to music, (RED)WIRE launches today, December 1st, 2008, World AIDS Day. For $5, half of which will go to The Global Fund, an organization that buys and administers medicine to women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa, every Wednesday users will receive an "issue" of the digital music magazine delivered to their desktop.

Massive auction for the World AIDS Day will include CDs autographed by Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Fall Out Boy, Carly Simon, Jennifer Hudson, Bon Jovi, Lindsay Lohan, and Amy Winehouse; signed books by Madonna, Lance Bass, Tori Spelling, Ann Bannon, and Oscar De La Hoya; posters signed by Jake Gyllenhaal, Owen Wilson, Patti LuPone, Debbie Harry, Melissa Etheridge, Liza Minnelli and Matthew McConaughey.

Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human blood cells slows down multiplication of the AIDS virus, according to biochemists.

A new study published in Lancet's current issue says that if people in the developing countries that have high rates of HIV and AIDS can be regularly tested and checked the HIV infection can be eliminated in a decade. The AIDS and HIV treatment experts from the World Health Organization say it's quite startling to see this happening in ten years.

Bloggers and some media reports criticized the use of the U.N. building in New York for the event because it raised funds for Raising Malawi, an advocacy group administered by the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles

A fungus called microsporidia that causes chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients and travelers has been identified as a member of the family of fungi that have been discovered to reproduce sexually.

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have successfully tested a genetic strategy designed to improve treatment of human infections caused by the yeast Candida albicans, ranging from diaper rash, vaginitis, oral infections (or thrush which is common in HIV/AIDS patients), as well as invasive, blood-borne and life-threatening diseases.

Blogs allow African Americans to discuss HIV and AIDS in an unfiltered way that is both public and private, according to a Penn State researcher, and this exploration may lead to another way to distribute health messages to the African American community.

New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic.