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Highlights from HIV and hepatitis C research presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston

An analysis of a fishing community yields some of the first evidence of the overall efficacy of a combination approach to prevention.

Ramping up voluntary medical male circumcision and treatment coverage appears to have sent the local infection rate tumbling.

Highlights from the research presented at the 9th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science in Paris.

Circumcising men reduces their risk of contracting the virus from women by 60 percent, which research suggests also benefits women overall.

PrePex is making nonsurgical adult male circumcision easier across Africa.

With a major new HIV vaccine trial under way, cautious optimism is stirring that the vaccine will prove effective enough for a rollout.

Voluntary medical male circumcision is associated with a 60 percent reduction of female-to-male HIV transmission.

This type of the virus initially took hold in Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea-Bissau, where circumcision was less common in the early 20th century...

The aggressive scale-up of male circumcision in Kenya alone has likely prevented thousands of transmissions, suggest mathematical models.

This campaign highlights an HIV prevention technique each week till World AIDS Day. Here’s how you can lend a hand!

For the first time, researchers have shown a link between circumcision as well as HIV treatment and a reduction in infection rates.

Zambian women misperceive the HIV- and other sexually transmitted infection-related risk reduction of male circumcision.

PEPFAR goal: Achieve a 25 percent decrease in HIV incidence among girls and young women in parts of sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2016.

Food vouchers succeed in increasing the rate of voluntary male medical circumcision (VMMC) among Kenyan men.

For some, it’s a revered and ancient expression of religious faith and tradition. Others believe it’s not only medically unnecessary, but...