Desmond Tutu hospitalized with infection
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A South African foundation says retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has checked into a Cape Town hospital for treatment of a persistent infection...
Janet Jackson appears in PSA for World AIDS Day
VIDEO - Janet Jackson speaks on HIV and AIDS in America and how over 1 million Americans are infected with the HIV disease and one in five don't even know it...
Heavy D has reportedly died at age 44
theGRIO REPORT - Sources close to legendary rapper Heavy D have told theGrio that he has passed away at age 44 after suffering from a yet to be identified infection...
Ghana eradicates Guinea worm after 23-year fight
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - On Thursday, after 23 years of hard work and a major setback, Ghana finally declared victory Guinea worm...
Etta James treated for 'potentially deadly' infection
RIVERSIDE, Calif (AP) - The 73-year-old suffers from dementia, leukemia, kidney problems and other ailments...
UNICEF works to stop mother-to-child AIDS
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Under the pilot program UNICEF launched last month in Kenya, expectant mothers with HIV are being given cardboard boxes called the "Mother-Baby Pack"...
UN probes base as source of Haiti cholera outbreak
MIREBALAIS, Haiti (AP) - U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday...
1 in 22 blacks will get HIV, CDC report says
ATLANTA (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the numbers Thursday. The report says the lifetime risk is 1 in 52 for Hispanics, and 1 in 170 for whites....
Black man's HIV status leads to breakthrough in research
One of three new antibiotics found is capable of neutralizing HIV strains, about 91 percent of it...
HIV-positive singer admits to unprotected sex in court
DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) - German R&B singer Nadja Benaissa of the superstar girl band No Angels, is on trial for allegedly knowingly infecting a sexual partner with HIV...
