The FDA approved Gilead's HIV prevention drug lenacapavir, a twice-a-year injectable medication that clinical trials show prevents new infections.

A new twice-yearly shot could be a "game changer" in the fight against AIDS, but experts' hopes have dimmed because of the ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a ...

Bolivia is one of very few countries with a legal market for coca. In the rest of the world it is controlled with the same ...

The Tyrone woman, who spent three years in a jail in Peru on smuggling charges, made the remarks in the wake of the arrest of ...

Aaron Castranova, 41, from Alabama, died on June 1 after allegedly ingesting an ayahuasca brew at the La Casa de Guillermo ICONA hostel in Loreto, located in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, according ...

Michaella McCollum, one half of the Peru Two, was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison after trying to smuggle 12kg of cocaine from Ibiza to Peru in 2013. She applied for parole three ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing traces of psychedelic snuff and tobacco. The presence of the "snuff tubes ...

These airstrips are being used by drug traffickers to transport narcotics produced in the central rainforests of Peru, which are mostly bound for Bolivia. A team of journalists visited these areas ...

The officers "disguised themselves using the teddy bear because drugs were sold there," Colonel Walter Palomino, head of the Green Squadron of the National Police, told AFP. Peru is one of the ...

The Amazon forest and watershed shared by Peru, Colombia, and Brazil provide ideal cover for coca cultivation and processing. As a result, a cocaine trafficking chain has emerged there — one that ...

Two young women who were at the centre of a drug bust which made headlines around the world 10 years ago have moved on with their lives. Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid were stopped in Peru ...