This year marks 30 years since AIDS was first identified in a brief article on 5 June 1981 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since then, the disease has evolved from a local epidemic to a global pandemic. HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS, [...]

How is it possible that a disease can kill more than 1.5 million tiny children every year and that hardly anybody knows about it? Even more astonishing is the fact that a million of these deaths could be prevented by simple interventions that already exist. Pneumonia is the largest killer of children under five, but [...]

Today, 18th May is World AIDS Vaccine Day. It marks the day, 13 years ago, when U.S. President Bill Clinton challenged the world to develop an AIDS vaccine within a decade. We now know that this timeframe was overly optimistic, but in 1997, most of us could not have conceived how difficult the task would [...]