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  Doctors call for gender-focused HIV care in Canada

  Doctors in British Columbia say they are not surprised by a recent study from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV-AIDS that found women with the disease are 25 per cent more likely than men to receive sub-standard treatment in the province.

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  Alicia Keys campaigns to educate women about HIV

  Singer Alicia Keys says she wants to spark a global conversation about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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  HIV-AIDS research finds women more likely than men to get sub-par treatment

  Researchers in British Columbia researchers say they've found that women are far more likely than men to receive sub-standard care and treatment after they test HIV positive.

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  Self-testing for HIV could help slow spread of AIDS: study

  Getting people around the world to test themselves for HIV could help bring the HIV/AIDS epidemic under control, by finding infected patients earlier before they infect others, a new study suggests.

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  Almost half of Regina aboriginals who tested positive for HIV didn't know: study

  Almost half of the people who tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS in a study of aboriginal people in Regina did not know they were infected.

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  New Brunswick health officials seek sex partners of HIV positive man

  Officials in New Brunswick are trying to track down about two dozen men who had unprotected sex with a man later diagnosed with HIV, the province's top medical officer said Monday.

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  Early HIV treatment can lead to 'functional cure': study

  Treating HIV patients with antiretroviral medication soon after they become infected may allow some of them to eventually stop taking the drugs, intriguing new research suggests.

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  Infant first to be 'functionally cured' of HIV, researchers say

  U.S. researchers say they have, for the first time ever, 'functionally cured' an HIV-infected infant, a breakthrough that could one day end HIV infection in children.

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  Pilot project at Vancouver hospitals finds 30 HIV patients

  A pilot project at Vancouver hospitals that tests patients for HIV on admission has found more than 30 people with the disease in its first year.

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  South Africa making progress in HIV/AIDS fight

  In the early 90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health centre until they died. Two decades later the clinic is the biggest ARV (anti-retroviral) treatment centre in the country