(CNN) – December first is world aids day a chance for people to unite in the fight against the HIV, show their support for people living with it, and to commemorate people who have died from it. In ...

Predictive modeling determined that the needle exchange in Washington, DC, prevented 120 new cases of HIV in 2 years, according to researchers. Needle exchanges can prevent new cases of HIV, according ...

In 2015, Indiana's rural Scott County found itself in the national spotlight when intravenous drug use and sharing needles led to an outbreak of HIV. Mike Pence, who was Indiana's governor at the time ...

Needle-sharing programs, also referred to as needle exchange or syringe services programs, are integral to public health efforts. These initiatives supply clean needles and syringes to individuals who ...

AIDS was the leading cause of death in young men in the U.S. when Prevention Point Philadelphia started in 1992. Nearly 33,600 Americans died from HIV infection that year, and about one-third of all ...

An Indiana county on Wednesday voted to end a needle exchange program that health officials say has been responsible for significantly reducing the spread of HIV in the area. The Scott County ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Australia's early and widespread use of clean-needle programs seems to have kept HIV rates among injection-drug users in check over the long term, according to a study. In ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of ...

A person’s chance of contracting HIV from a needlestick injury is very low, the chief executive of Britain’s National AIDS Trust has told Reuters. This is in response to claims on social media that ...

Forty-eight hours after the incident had occurred, information became available that one of the children involved in the incident was HIV-positive, was not on antiretroviral treatment and had an HIV-1 ...