HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is the microorganism responsible for AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and ...

New HIV infections fell by approximately 40 per cent between 2000 and 2013. Globally, an estimated 35 million people were still living with HIV in 2013. More than 75 per cent of the new infections ...

National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was first recognized in 2007 as a way to draw attention to the disproportionately high rates of HIV within Indigenous communities. This initiative was ...