A young woman who tested positive for HIV has described how she felt like "throwing" herself in the river when she received her diagnosis.

The dearth of information in the wake of the Aids crisis demanded that early health education campaigns were undertaken by grassroots groups, writes Dr Nina Holmes

A home testing kit that can detect HIV antibodies in just 15 minutes has been launched in the Irish market against a backdrop of a steady rise in infection rates since 2011.

In the fight against HIV/Aids, some stories illuminate the long road to global eradication more than others. In 2009, I heard one such story in Tanzania, Heather Bresch. 

Campaigners had been calling for months for the HSE to bring the drug known as PrEP to Ireland.

An effective HIV vaccine may be a short step away now scientists have overcome a major stumbling block hindering its development.

It’s 30 years since the Sexual Health Centre first opened its doors in Cork, a time when we didn’t even have a language to talk about sex, says CEO Deirdre Seery. Today, Ireland is transformed, she tells Ailín Quinlan.

Bono is launching a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” campaign which could see winners spend time with the U2 singer, George Clooney or Kim Kardashian.

Aids is now the leading cause of death among African teenagers and the second most common killer for adolescents across the globe, the United Nations’ agency for children has said.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar, said rapid HIV testing would be offered in colleges, workplaces and in public places.

A US company that raised the price of a drug for treating a deadly parasitic infection by more than 5,000% says it will roll back some of the increase.

The chief executive of a US pharmaceutical company has defended his firm’s decision to raise the price of an Aids medication by more than 5,000% practically overnight.

An 18-year-old French teen born with the Aids virus has had her infection under control and nearly undetectable despite stopping treatment 12 years ago — an unprecedented remission, doctors are reporting.

North Korea says it has succeeded where the greatest minds in science have failed.

New HIV cases have reached their highest point in five years.

A baby treated for HIV within hours of birth is free of the virus nearly a year later, in the second case that has raised hopes about early treatment, doctors said.

Egypt’s military leaders have been ridiculed after the chief army engineer unveiled what he described as a “miraculous” set of devices that detect and cure Aids, hepatitis and other viruses.

Rock giants U2 are to give away a new song — in a move which is expected to generate more than €1m — to help the fight against Aids.