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Timothy Ray Brown made medical history and became a symbol of hope for the tens of millions of people living with the virus that causes AIDS when he was cured more than a decade ago

First man to be cured of HIV dies of cancer

News Lens • 30 Sep 20

HIV virus taken with transmission electron microscopy

UK HIV patient becomes world's second AIDS cure hope

Health • 05 Mar 19

A HIV screening kit is prepared at a clinic in India

'Dangerous complacency' over spread of AIDS

Aids • 20 Jul 18

AIDS-related deaths have declined by almost 50% since a peak of 1.9 million in 2005

Five key numbers on World Aids Day

News Lens • 01 Dec 17

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has killed around 35 million people worldwide since it began in the 1980s

South African child effectively cured of AIDS

World • 24 Jul 17

New HIV infections declined to two million in 2014, compared to 3.1 million 14 years ago

New HIV infections fall 35% since 2000

News • 14 Jul 15

A less virulent HIV could be one of several factors contributing to a turning of the deadly pandemic

HIV's ability to cause AIDS is weakening - study

News • 02 Dec 14

A model of a Neanderthal man constructed on the basis of excavated bones, at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

Neanderthal viruses found in modern human DNA

News • 19 Nov 13

The research follows news earlier this month about a baby girl in the US being effectively cured of HIV

Fresh hope for 'functional cure' for HIV

News • 15 Mar 13

Report claims AIDS eradication in sight

News • 20 Nov 12

FDA urged to approve HIV/AIDS breakthrough

News • 11 May 12

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