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'

Aids breakthrough as study says treatment should cost less

Clinton Foundation delivers report showing cost of treating people with HIV is four times less than previously thought

Condom seizures from sex workers are undoing years of progress on HIV/Aids

Nichi Hodgson: Police in major American cities are using condoms as evidence of sex work, thereby discouraging their use

Sex workers gather in Kolkata for alternative Aids summit

In response to US visa restrictions that prevent them travelling to the international aids conference in Washington, sex workers have organised a week-long summit and protest in India

US condom crackdown impeding efforts to prevent HIV, study finds

Research shows sex workers most at risk of HIV are afraid to carry a stock of condoms in case they are stopped by police

Aids deaths are falling but progress is too slow, says UN report

Epidemic is being turned around, but 'not fast enough', and funding is under threat from economic downturn

UK has third most inactive population in Europe

Two-thirds of British adults fail to take recommended amount of exercise needed to keep them healthy, research shows

So Marissa Mayer will be skipping maternity leave – how very American

We might not agree with the pregnant Mayer's decision to work right on through, but her appointment as chief executive of Yahoo is still fantastic news