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In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017 photo, Mahboobeh Zeinali, who is HIV-positive, attends an acting class at Reviving Values aid group institute in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 29, 2017, 11:28 am
Iran challenges taboos on discussing sex, as HIV rate rises
Authorities in country where extramarital sex is prohibited seeing a surge in infections, with nearly half of carriers unaware they have the virus
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Amir Vahdat
Illustrative photo of a Meuhedet Health Services clinic (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
August 8, 2017, 3:37 am
In first, healthcare provider to subsidize HIV medication
Decision by Meuhedet to help fund drug expected to drive dramatic price drop, increase availability
By TOI staff
Dr. Mark Wainberg speaking on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 13, 2017, 10:18 pm
Renowned AIDS researcher drowns during Passover vacation
Mark Wainberg, 71, who discovered first treatment for HIV, pronounced dead after swim in Florida
By JTA
Tools for a circumcision procedure (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
January 20, 2017, 10:22 pm
Male circumcision helps prevent all HIV, say researchers
New study in West African countries finds that procedure also helps against the more rare, but quickly spreading, HIV-2 virus
By JTA
Illustrative photo of blood donated to Israel's blood bank (Rebecca Zeffert/Flash90)
November 4, 2016, 8:54 am
Health Ministry says no syphilis in rechecked blood
6,300 pints of blood retested after European manufacturer of test kits said they may be faulty
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of blood in a test tube. (Margalit Slovin/Flash90)
November 1, 2016, 3:26 am
Israeli scientists see breakthrough in AIDS cure
Drug now being tested causes HIV-infected cells to self-destruct without harming the rest of the body
By TOI staff
A girl reads the Bible in her bed at the Addis Ababa AHOPE Center for HIV-positive orphans, July 7, 2016 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
July 15, 2016, 4:03 pm
At Ethiopian orphanage, HIV-positive kids dream big
Taking a break from Netanyahu's African diplomatic marathon last week, reporters slipped away to visit Addis Ababa's AHOPE center supported by Hadassah and the Israeli Embassy
By Raphael Ahren
Ali G. (Sacha Baron Cohen), right, interviews Donald Trump (YouTube)
May 26, 2016, 4:37 pm
That time when Ali G. sat down with the Donald
After an in-character interview from 13 years ago resurfaces, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen claims he was the first person to realize Trump 'was a dick'
By Renee Ghert-Zand
PrePex device (Courtesy)
May 25, 2016, 5:53 pm
Israeli-developed circumcision device to be distributed in Africa
The World Health Organization wants to bring the PrePex to 14 sub-Saharan African countries
By TOI staff
Illustration. IDF recruits. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)
December 1, 2015, 11:04 pm
Ending longstanding taboo, IDF pushes for HIV carriers to enlist
Army medical officer says move, made possible with advances in medicine, will affect few but send important message
By Judah Ari Gross
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte. This image has been colored to highlight important features (Wikimedia Commons, public domain/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library)
August 20, 2015, 11:37 am
Sharp rise in heterosexuals contracting HIV
Men make up about 70% of new carriers in Israel in 2014; about 42% of them engaged in homosexual relations
By Adiv Sterman
A Yemeni man sits on the rubble as people search for suvivors in houses destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike on a residential area in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on May 1, 2015. (AFP/MOHAMMED HUWAIS)
June 29, 2015, 10:25 am
Iranian report: Saudi meds for Yemen tainted with HIV
Tehrani semi-state news agency asserts, implausibly, that the WHO has confirmed dozens infected with deadly virus after taking medicine provided by Riyadh
By Tamar Pileggi
Larry Kramer, whose life and work are examined in the HBO documentary 'Larry Kramer In Love & Anger.' (Courtesy of HBO/via JTA)
June 26, 2015, 4:46 am
HBO docu takes candid look at writer-AIDS activist Larry Kramer
On the forefront of the AIDS epidemic, the outspoken Jewish author and playwright became a provocateur who rallied a nation
By Curt Schleier
An illustration of a cancer cell. (photo credit: Cancer image)
February 19, 2015, 4:45 pm
Research shows strong ties between gum disease and cancer
'Troublemaking' bacteria that is a major factor in periodontitis prevents the body from properly fending off cancerous cells, Hebrew U research shows
By David Shamah
January 8, 2015, 3:30 am
Allegations of sexual misconduct rock Israeli consulate in LA
US citizen employed at site suspected of harassing fellow employee, threatens to sue Israeli authorities if he is fired as he has HIV
By TOI staff
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