Though documented cases of HIV transmission between women aren't common, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that such an instance did occur in Houston in 2012.

An encouraging development in the long fight against AIDS: Researchers announced today that a new gel helps protect against HIV infection in monkeys. That's even if it's applied after sex, as long as it's within three hours. And it's got the potential to protect women.

After a baby born last year with HIV was deemed potentially HIV-free, there was much cause for celebration. Now doctors are even more stoked because a second child born with HIV has been treated and found to have cleared the virus.

In an amazing breakthrough in AIDS research, scientists at both Rockefeller University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have developed antiretroviral injections that, when given once a month, have been shown to suppress AIDS symptoms and protect against the virus in monkeys. While a human…

On Friday, an unidentified performer in the porn industry tested positive for HIV. This is the fourth individual in the business to test positive this year, and as of right now, filming in LA has been halted.

Just one day after the 25th World AIDS Day, President Obama announced an initiative to find a cure for HIV infections that would be funded by $100 million shifted from existing spending. "The United States should be at the forefront of new discoveries into how to put people into long-term remission without requiring…

I assume you've already heard about Pat Robertson's genius new "Don't Shake Hands with a Gay Because He'll Probably Poke You with an AIDS Needle in His Magic Ring" theorem. If you haven't, you're welcome! Gahd, gays, what is your prahblem!? THE GOOD CHRISTIANS JUST WANT TO SHAKE HANDS WITH YOU 4 JESUS! (And to feel…

Every now and again, the media likes to run with a time-honored story: GONORRHEA OMG YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE. The latest round of gonorrhea fear-mongering started with a strain of the STI called HO41. First discovered in a female sex worker in Japan, HO41 was thought to be in North America. Everyone freaked out. But…

Bad news: federal researchers shut down that HIV vaccine clinical trial everyone was super amped on after safety experts found that volunteers who took the experimental vaccine were actually slightly more likely to contract HIV than those who got a placebo. Well, fuck.

I've been trying for a couple of days to figure out how to even talk about this without throwing my computer out the window and then burrowing my body into some soft mud underneath my back porch and just hiding there forever. I hope this approach doesn't seem trivializing, but I'm simply speechless. So here are some…

That celebratory "game-changer" we experienced last week—the news that a 2 1/2-year-old Mississippi girl born with HIV had been cured—might have been a bit premature. It seems that gist of the case was reported on in the media before it was actually presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic…

Here's some hopeful news to take us into Monday! A 2 1/2 year old girl from Mississippi appears to have been cured of HIV — and it's all because of a rather unusual situation.

Lee Thompson, better known to the world as the gay "Uncle Poodle" of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo's star Alana Thompson, has become something of an advocate for "queer rednecks" has just revealed that a recent HIV test came back positive.

A banner reading "China's first jack-off competition" welcomed participants and voyeurs alike to, well, China's first jack-off competition. The public display of self affection went down in Shenzhen, China, on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day. It was sponsored by sex toy manufacturer Aihuirun.com, who said the event was…

India, which has been a surprising success story in AIDS prevention throughout the aughts, might be on the verge of a serious health crisis thanks to the more widespread use among sex workers of cellphones, those fragile, rectangular amulets of modern independence. Though India's sex trade used to be largely localized…

For the past 30 years, the Center for Disease Control and AIDS awareness advocacy groups have worked hard to advertise condoms as being paramount to reducing the risk of contracting HIV. So the assumption is that actors in the adult film industry, who do not use condoms, are not having "safe sex." But about 350,000…

These new PSAs for the AIDS Council, put together by the McCann Worldgroup Helsinki ad agency, equate getting busy to checking in on Foursquare. A heterosexual couple touch each other and get undressed; right before he pulls off his skivvies, a map icon pops up with the info, "Cathy Mills and 34 others were here."…

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has just released a statement on the HIV-related statistics of American high schools students, and it turns out that the news is mostly good! Jeez, I love writing that.

Apparently, for the past 14 years, the Chinese government has banned not only gay men but lesbians from giving blood—because, in the popular consciousness, "being a homosexual equals AIDS." Oh, China. What are you even talking about? But this week, apparently someone finally clued China in on what "lesbian" actually…

Since so many people in this country have limited or no access to health care, it's become more and more routine for people to get certain basic care, like flu shots and blood pressure readings, at drugstores. Now, the CDC is running a pilot program that will offer free rapid HIV tests at pharmacies in 24 cities and…