Fry says mistakes made decades ago when the gay and bisexual communities were "afraid and ashamed to come out" because of misconceptions about HIV-AIDS must not be repeated with monkeypox.

Fry says mistakes made decades ago when the gay and bisexual communities were "afraid and ashamed to come out" because of misconceptions about HIV-AIDS must not be repeated with monkeypox.

HIV treatment is so effective that it lowers the virus to an undetectable level, and yet stigma around the virus persists. Here’s a look at five misconceptions on World AIDS Day.

Advocates with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network say the pushback against the program is wrong. "I think the ideas are based on a lot of misconceptions," said Sandra Ka Hon Chu, the director of ...

HIV finds and destroys a type of white blood cell that the immune system must have to fight diseases. Therefore, it is mostly complications that threaten patients with AIDS, not the virus itself.

He knows first hand the misinformation out there about HIV and the discrimination people who have it experience. Rev. Willoughby is HIV-positive himself. ” (I started HIV 101) to try and get rid of ...

Latest estimates point out that 35,000 people in the region became infected with HIV, and 20,000 AIDS-related deaths occurred. The total number of people living with HIV rose from 200,000 in 2001 ...

With widespread misconceptions about HIV/AIDS dominating the headlines, and fear overruling facts, Ryan was barred from attending his school and driven from his hometown of Kokomo.

As of the end of 2007, there were about 700,000 people living with HIV in China, according to statistics of the Ministry of Health. It is estimated that 85,000 of them have developed AIDS.

Vancouver Centre member of Parliament Hedy Fry has warned about stigmatization in the battle against monkeypox, recalling the fear surrounding HIV-AIDS when she was a physician in the ‘80s.