AIDS Epidemic Grows Among Children It is estimated that two million children under the age of 15 live with HIV and most of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. On World AIDS Day, ...

Gilead Sciences and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Wednesday they had finalized plans to ...

Eighteen children every hour were infected with HIV last year, a sign of scant progress in protecting the world's young from the deadly AIDS-causing virus, the United Nations' children's agency ...

This isn’t about managing the AIDS pandemic. It’s about ending it — and letting a new generation grow and thrive free of its ...

In 2015, global groups set ambitious goals to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic. They aimed to bring down the number of new cases, particularly among children, teens and young women, by 2020 – and to ...

Remarkably, and gratefully, the end of AIDS in children is within sight. If we act purposefully and with ambition, we could welcome the first AIDS-free generation by 2020.

That is, a third of children will have lost a parent to AIDS/HIV. Infant mortality in South Africa will be 60 percent higher by the end of the decade than would have been expected, due to the disease.

The epidemic of drug overdose deaths is a national disaster. It claimed more than 64,000 lives in 2016, many of them by opioid overdoses. That’s far more than the number of deaths from HIV/AIDS ...

Only political will from global leaders — including the U.S. — can get us on track to eliminate HIV in children. Just a year ago it seemed we might eliminate AIDS in children by 2020. Today ...