The United States will provide $37.5 million to Ukraine in 2017 as part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

A police force in Northern Ireland has shared a guide on its Facebook page to help parents decipher secret sexting codes and help keep teens safe online.Terms range from ‘TDTM’ (talk dirty to me) and ‘WTTP’ (want to trade pictures), to ‘LH6’ (let’s have sex).

Feminists have striven for decades to emancipate women sexually, but when it comes to casual promiscuity, the female of the species is still more straight-laced than the male. And evolution is to blame. Women are evolutionary programmed to regret one night stands, while men have evolved to regret not having more of them, a study suggests. “Women regret that they agree to a one-night stand more often than men. Men regret passing up the chance more than women,” says Prof Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU) department of psychology.

With inspiration from an ancient toy, researchers believe that the simple spinning mechanics of a whirligig could help in the diagnosis of malaria, HIV and other diseases around the world, according to a new study.

Drug treatments to suppress HIV could be driving up rates of syphilis by eliminating the 'fear factor', a new study has warned. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can control viral load - making it virtually undetectable - and preventing or delaying the progression to AIDS.

UK had third highest number of new HIV infections in 2015. Two-thirds of all new HIV cases in Europe are being recorded in just one country – Russia.

Intarcia Therapeutics is developing implantable pump which holds six or 12 months’ supply of medicine.

On 1 December 2016, Alliance for Public Health together with its partners implementing the project “Harm Reduction for Adolescents Who Use Drugs in Ukraine” held a youth-oriented awareness-raising campaign dedicated to the World AIDS Day “MUSIC FEST – TAKE A TEST” The campaign took place in Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Poltava and Sviatohirsk.

This will be South Africa's largest and most advanced HIV vaccine clinical trial.

New vaccine trial in South Africa builds on previous RV144 study to bring in more effective prevention of infection.