There is a lack of regular running water in several areas, while doctors at the local hospital admit they do not always provide blood to patients that is tested for the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

The gel contains tenofovir. This is a common anti-retroviral drug used to treat people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Studies have shown that male circumcision can reduce a man's risk of getting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Dr.Haukoos says alternative HIV testing programs are needed to help those who don't know they have the virus.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

President Thabo Mbeki was at the center of it, skeptical a virus was the cause of HIV/AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

The count measures immune cells that are killed off by the AIDS virus,HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

He was diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS,24 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

We're at a point now where some really important recent discoveries have not answered all our questions, but have certainly helped take us into some new directions and really open up a new chapter in the search for additional options to prevent HIV Those recent discoveries include anti-bodies found in some HIV positive people that prevent the AIDS virus from entering cells.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

Some want an independent review. And the trial's researchers, like Dr.Nelson Michael, of the Walter Reed Institute of Research in the United States, say it's unclear what difference the findings will make for areas like Africa where rates of HIV/AIDS are much higher than among the test population and where there are many strains of the virus.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20