HIV-positive residents in Moscow and St. Petersburg talk about their lives and challenges.

Remus Lupin’s lycanthropy (being a werewolf) was a “metaphor for those illnesses that carry a stigma, like HIV and AIDS.”

The World Health Organization has recommended updated treatment protocols to combat drug-resistant gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis.

Eligibility is no longer based on CD4 count. Activists support the change but express “serious concerns.”

HIV risk may depend upon far more than just condoms and the number of sexual partners.

The U.S. will match one dollar for every two dollars pledged to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

CD4 and viral load monitoring instruments are also underused.

Having a job and other factors associated with masculinity, as well as being healthy, were linked with less stigma in a small recent study.

Published info on innocent citizens also includes Social Security numbers and sexual orientation.

Infection with the roundworm Wuchereria bancrofti more than doubles the risk of HIV in adolescents and young adults in Tanzania.