Although recent advances have raised hopes that a protective vaccine can be developed, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains a major public health problem.

In the last 10 years, the St. Louis area has seen an alarming increase in new diagnoses of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among 13-24 year-olds.

Structural biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have described the architecture of the complex of protein units that make up the coat surrounding the HIV genome and identified in it a “seam” of functional importance that previously went unrecognized.

Theratechnologies (TSX:TH) announced that results from a pooled analysis from both its Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating tesamorelin for the treatment of excess abdominal fat in HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy were presented as a poster (Poster number: #BPD2/1) at the 12th European AIDS Conference/EACS in Cologne, Germany.

TIME examines the Kenyan government’s upcoming survey of gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in the country’s “three biggest cities” in an effort to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS.