In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect Black Americans, despite overall progress in reducing infection rates.

Promising results from an early-stage trial suggest that lenacapavir injections might offer long-lasting protection.

An annual shot to protect against HIV infection has successfully passed an early safety trial, according to research ...

Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

Pepfar, a global initiative to fight HIV/Aids, has saved millions of lives since its launch in 2003. Now its future is ...

Gastric bacteria, which leaks around the stomach lining, plays a significant role in the onset of stomach cancer -- which has limited treatment options and poor survival rates, according to a study on ...