AIDS

After 40 years of struggle: Scientists approach the greatest goal in medicine

Although existing treatments allow a full life with the HIV virus, now, more than ever, scientists are close to developing a mechanism that will completely remove the virus from the body.

It is possible to completely get rid of the virus
HIV is one of the most sophisticated viruses humanity has had to confront

A breakthrough in the war against AIDS: In two trials, patients were “cured” of the disease

AIDS Ribbon

World AIDS Day: HIV diagnoses in Israel drop 22% in 2024, Health Ministry reports

 FDA approves Yeztugo: Gilead's new twice-yearly HIV prevention injection.

New, promising oral HIV medication receives promising results in late-stage trial


Drug reducing risk of HIV transmission in healthy people okayed

The approval makes Israel one of the first countries to implement it.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries building in Jerusalem.

Helping Israeli NGOs heal the world

Israeli aid to Nepal

Health Scan: Potential therapy to eliminate HIV virus

Also included: Which gender has better memory?

Long empty hospital corridor (illustrative)

Israeli research successful in identifying possible HIV, AIDS cure

Scientists have identified a protein that could practically eliminate the HIV virus.

A laboratory assistant

Art for a cause

More than 600 artists will display some 800 pieces of art in an exhibit that will take place in Bank Hapoalim’s main office in Tel Aviv.

Art by Menashe Kadishman

IDF to begin allowing HIV-positive soldiers

The announcement was made in honor of World AIDS Day.

The Givati Brigade completed a training exercise to prepare the soldiers for combat in the northern region

New cases of HIV carriers in Israel on a slow decline

Poll for World AIDS Day shows 65% of Israelis have never undergone an HIV test.

World AIDS Day

Israel can prevent it

The Jerusalem Post

Israeli study shows circumcision reduces risk of HIV infection

Dr. Daniel Chemtob, director of the ministry’s department of Tuberculosis and AIDS, and colleagues have just published the study in the open-access 'Israel Journal of Health Policy Research'.

A rabbi holds an eight-day-old baby during a circumcision ceremony in Brussels, August 20, 2009.

Israeli scientist claims breakthrough in HIV research

A researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found similarities between leukemia and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

A scientist prepares protein samples for analysis in a lab at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton