With the outbreak of the Zika Virus in much of the southern part of the Western Hemisphere, Americans are wondering what the chance is of an outbreak in the US. RT’s Marina Portnaya visits a micro-biology lab at Miami-Dade College, where Dr. Joe Okungbowa highlights the concern in in South Florida,

In this chapter of the AIDS Chronology, the World AIDS Museum (WAM) highlights the life and career of celebrities stricken by the HIV/AIDS virus in cinema, the silver screen, sports, fashion, music and the arts.The World AIDS Museum will be the first museum dedicated to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Ed...

The Parthenon is an ancient Greek temple built on the Acropolis hill of Athens, Greece.It is a temple made of white Pentelic marble and was dedicated to goddess Athena, the patroness of the city of Athens.
The construction began in 447 BC after the orders of the Athenian statesman Pericles.

The first known incidents of the Ebola virus were in 1976. There were two simultaneous outbreaks in Nzara in Sudan and Yambuku in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). The name of the Ebola river near Yambuku was given to the new epidemic.

Outbreaks have mainly occured in remote villages ...

With over 50,000 new HIV infections every year and the highest AIDS-related death rate of any wealthy nation, it has been declared that the US is “losing the battle against HIV.” This failure is a result of gaps in the “HIV Care Continuum” – which consists of the stages of HIV care ranging from kno

Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 70 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 35 million people have died of HIV. Globally, 36.7 million [30.8–42.9 million] people were living with HIV at the end of 2016. An estimated 0.8% [0.7-0.9%] of adults aged 15–49 years worl

Zurga and Nadir's duet Au fond du Temple Saint (“In the Depths of the Holy Temple") Performed by Plácido Domingo and Dimash Qudaibergen at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest on 10 December 2023 Orchestra: Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Tibor Bogányi

The increasing prevalence of new coronavirus variants is raising questions about how well protected those who’ve already had their COVID-19 shots are against evolving forms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here, microbiology and infectious disease specialist William Petri of the University of Virginia answe

California microbiologist Kary Mullis, Ph.D. on whether or not HIV is the probable cause of AIDS. Created and narrated by Gary Null, Ph.D.

This edition of the World AIDS Museum series: Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," profiles Dr. Bob Wallace. Dr Wallace is a General Practitioner who has been dealing with the AIDS epidemic since the first cases of Kaposi Sarcoma in St Petersburg, Florida in the early 1980's. In his up close and personal i...