Not very long ago, contracting HIV was an effective death sentence; today, there are treatments that allow the condition to be managed but not eradicated.
Researchers discovered a highly virulent variant of HIV in the Netherlands that genetic sequence analysis suggests has been circulating since the 1990s.
Author and journalist John-Manuel Andriote has spent much of his career writing about the impact of HIV/AIDS – a job that became much more personal when he himself was diagnosed in 2005.
Leading UK politicians have called for an HIV prevention drug to be made available across the NHS, after a court ruling paved the way for cheap generic versions of Gilead’s Truvada.