In many regions of Africa and Asia, there are some age groups amongst women that have a 60% HIV infection rate. The high infection rate usually stems from the fact that in these regions, culturally, women do not feel empowered enough to push the issue with their sexual partners to wear a condom. Scientists from [...]

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More ground has been gained in the fight to combat AIDS/HIV. Researchers involved in a study on chimpanzees that has spanned nine years feel they may have found what some call the “missing link” in HIV as it has evolved through the years. This link helps form a relation between the virus that infects but [...]

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In an alarming new discovery, a woman who hails from Cameroon, a nation in Africa, was recently diagnosed with a new strain of HIV that has researchers and scientists scrambling to find the source. Currently, there are three known strains of this virus, all of which are related to a simian version of the virus [...]

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