The end of HIV/Aids may not be possible if the war on drugs continues

Douglas Haddow: The danger in ignoring rising HIV rates among drug users is it could reignite the virus when it enters manageable decline

Indian sex workers are a shining example of women’s empowerment

Andrea Cornwall: As the alternative Aids summit in Kolkata has shown, society should start treating women who work in the industry with respect instead of disgust

UN ‘way off target’ on promise to end HIV infections in newborn children

Unicef's senior adviser says that more than 330,000 children are being born with HIV every year despite proven treatment

Feeling anxious about what will be done with this wellbeing index data?

Oliver Burkeman: Lying beneath all this is a philosophical conundrum: that aiming for happiness often makes it harder to achieve

Anti-prostitution pledge in US Aids funding ‘damaging’ HIV response

Activists at Aids conferences demand end to Pepfar conditions that prevent HIV programmes reaching vulnerable groups

Elton John at Aids conference: ‘I should be dead. I nearly died’

Speaking in Washington DC, musician says Aids epidemic is 'fuelled by stigma, violence and indifference'

Fight against HIV empowering sex workers in India, says UN Aids envoy

India's sex workers credited with pioneering successful HIV prevention programmes and generating wider social reforms

Aids still a threat, conference told

Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAids, says although the end of the epidemic is in sight, millions of people are still at risk

West’s first gene therapy gets closer to market

Rare illness treatment Glybera wins European drugs regulator's approval in 'watershed moment'