The American College of Physicians is urging doctors to screen all patients for H.I.V. routinely beginning at age 13, whether or not they engage in risky behaviors.
A new study concluded that policies that grew out of President Thabo Mbeki’s denial of the scientific consensus about AIDS may have led to the premature deaths of 365,000 people.
Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus.
Chile’s health minister said that the country’s public health system and private-sector services failed to notify people that they were infected with H.I.V.