Diflucan, an antifungal medicine, is used to treat infections that commonly strike people infected with HIV.
Worldwide, 33 million people are infected with HIV and last year, AIDS claimed some 2 million lives.
According to CDC estimates, 9, 400 Latinos in the United States were newly infected with HIV in 2009.
Girls who marry early are more likely to be abused and, these days, to be infected with HIV.
If not treated, nearly all those infected with HIV will develop AIDS, according to the National Institutes of Health.
That's the scenario in about 80% of those who are infected with HIV.
Despite the existence of this treatment, babies are still born infected with HIV in the United States and worldwide.
Women now represent the majority of people infected with HIV, accounting for up to 2m new infections each year.
Merck said that 24 of 741 volunteers who got the vaccine became infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
Out of a group of 762 volunteers who were given a dummy version of the jab, 21 became infected with HIV.
The report also indicates that with 5.3 million people infected with HIV, South Africa still has the highest rate in the world.
There are currently 33, 200 people in the UK infected with HIV - a third of whom are unaware they have the virus.
The ratio of young women to young men infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa can be as high as eight to one.
An infant was born at a hospital in Mississippi to a woman unaware she was infected with HIV until she was already in labor.
Ensuring that people infected with HIV enter into treatment and care is critical to help stop the spread of HIV in the United States.
According to the CDC, the last time organ recipients were infected with HIV from an organ donor who tested negative for HIV was in 1986.
Still, the number of people infected with HIV continues to rise.
Among women, 1, 700 heterosexual Latinas became infected in 2009, making them more than four times more likely to become infected with HIV than white women.
But the 3, 000 volunteers who received the vaccine were only 3.8% less likely to be infected with HIV than 1, 500 volunteers who received only the placebo.
It said in the region of Africa the group is from, one in four of the adult population has been infected with HIV through heterosexual sex.
Since then, more than 60 people around the globe have been infected with HIV and more than 20 million have died, according to the World Health Organization.
After 30 months, 98 women became infected with HIV - 38 in the group that got tenofovir in the gel and 60 in the group that got placebos.
Nearly 1.2 million Americans are infected with HIV, including those with AIDS. An estimated 20% don't even know they're infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Speaking in a continent where more than 20m people have died from AIDS and another 22.5m are infected with HIV, his statement sounded otherworldly at best, and crass and uncaring at worst.
Some 20 million to 25 million people have died of Aids and at least 40 million more are infected with HIV, with sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean having particularly high rates of infection.
Even without the contraceptive bonus, VivaGel would be attractive to large potential markets such as the 38.6 million people worldwide infected with HIV or the one out of every five Americans that has genital herpes.
Dr He and his colleagues looked at the genes of airmen who classified themselves as black and found that the ones infected with HIV were more likely to lack red cells bearing the Duffy receptor than chance would suggest.
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