Meet Flossie Wong-Staal, an Asian American trailblazer in AIDS research

Wong-Staal became the first scientist to clone HIV and understand its genetic functions, ultimately proving that HIV is the cause of AIDS ...

The world owes a debt to Kiyoshi Kuromiya for his trailblazing HIV/AIDS activism

As a self-proclaimed “Forrest Gump of activism,” Kiyoshi Kuromiya was present for many of the U.S. social justice movements in the ‘60s thro...

Chinese-American Virologist Who Helped Identify the Cause of AIDS Dies at Age 73

World-renowned scientist Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal passed away due to pneumonia at the Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla, San Diego on July 8, ...

Hero Who Saved Over 10,000 By Exposing HIV Crisis in China Dies at Age 59

University of Utah researcher Shuping Wang, hailed as a “public health hero” for exposing HIV and hepatitis epidemics in China back in the 1...

Woman to Sue Thai Government For Ruining Her Life With a False HIV Diagnosis

A 20-year-old Thai woman is reportedly filing charges against the Thai Ministry of Public Health for wrongly diagnosing her as HIV-positive ...

Chinese Hospital Accidentally Infects 5 Patients with HIV

Five individuals now have HIV, no thanks to a hospital staff who accidentally infected them with the deadly virus at a high-end traditional ...

Asia Introduces New HIV-Prevention Pill For World AIDS Day

In its campaign to reduce HIV transmission in Thailand, the local Red Cross chapter has recently introduced a new pill that reportedly reduc...