A $50 million federal grant will help a University of Maryland School of Medicine team fight the spread of AIDS in Zambia. The five-year grant will go to the university’s Institute of Human Virology, which will work with the U.S. ...

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Responding to a major case of research misconduct, federal prosecutors have taken the rare step of filing charges against a scientist after he admitted falsifying data that led to millions in grants and hopes of a breakthrough in AIDS vaccine research.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday said the government cannot force private health organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition to get taxpayer money to fight AIDS around the world. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, said ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrestled Monday with the First Amendment implications of a policy that forces private health organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition to get AIDS funding. The court appeared divided, and not along ideological lines, in ...

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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. The agency approved Gilead Sciences’ pill Truvada as ...

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ATLANTA — Getting an AIDS test at the drugstore could become as common as a flu shot or blood pressure check, if a new pilot program takes off. The $1.2 million program will offer the free rapid HIV tests at ...

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LONDON — Gilead Sciences Inc., one of the world’s biggest producers of AIDS drugs, will allow some of them to be made by generic manufacturers — potentially increasing their availability in poor countries, particularly in Africa, officials said Tuesday. In ...

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Hundreds of volunteers are fanning out areas of Baltimore hardest hit by HIV and AIDS to encourage people to get tested. Free testing will be available at seven locations across the city on Tuesday. The Project SHALEM HIV testing drive ...

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The University of Maryland School of Medicine is announcing a funding consortium to pay for preclinical development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine candidate. Gov. Martin O’Malley and Dr. Robert Gallo, who founded the Institute of Human Virology at the university, will ...

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The Infectious Disease and Environmental Health Administration did not have adequate procedures to verify that claims paid by its drug assistance program for AIDS were legitimately filled, nor did it monitor inspectors at some of its food and milk processing ...

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