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Knowing your HIV status is key to accessing life-saving treatment or evaluating the best prevention options.
HIV negative children born to women with HIV have a greater risk of dying before their first birthday.
A liver transplant from an HIV-positive living donor to an HIV-negative recipient is possible, but there are still gaps in our knowledge.
Access to HIV testing is an important factor in reaching UN goals that 90% of people with HIV must know their status by 2020.
The world seemed to be inching forward with CRISPR gene editing technology – but suddenly the forbidden fruit has been plucked, and some even worry that the CRISPR tree has been cut down.
The tombstone, revolver and grim reaper imagery of the 1980s and early 1990s have cast a long shadow.
We don't know anything about the health of the baby girls who are reported to have been born. But it's clear scientists around the world are shocked.
Research shows that Aspirin could reduce the number of HIV infections in women at high risk for HIV, such as Kenyan female sex workers.
There are many ways of visualising scientific concepts, as we discovered when an artist got in touch about some of our work.
The stigma attached to HIV and AIDS, particularly in hip hop culture, is rife. The disease is represented poorly and often factually incorrect through lyrics.
There have been many advances made in the prevention and treatment of pneumonia, but providing for people's basic needs can help reduce the disease burden.
Introducing viral load testing at health facilities can help South Africa reach the United Nations target to end AIDS.
Bug chasers fetishise the HIV virus – and they come from a variety of backgrounds, generations, and countries.
In Uganda stand-alone clinics for HIV treatment persist because of stigma and overcrowding.
Doctors in South Africa performed a liver transplant from an HIV-positive donor to a HIV-negative recipient. Major ethical questions came into play.
Gains made in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe could be reversed unless a legal provision is revised.
Recently PrEP, an effective drug against HIV, was in the news with some concerns that gay men are no longer using condoms. But is the issue about condoms or control?
The HIV epidemic is far from over and it's not time to disengage, says International Aids Society President Linda-Gail Bekker.
It doesn't just seem like the world is experiencing more viral infections than before – it's a reality. And the way humans live today helps viruses thrive.
Top contributors
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
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Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
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Trevor Cullen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor & Head of Journalism, Edith Cowan University
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Specialist Physician (Internal Medicine), UNSW
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University Research Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Physician, University of Oxford
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Nial Wheate is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor | Program Director, Undergraduate Pharmacy, University of Sydney
