Aids conference in Washington and sex workers’ summit in Kolkata – in tweets

Tweets from the International Aids Conference in Washington and the week-long summit and protest in Kolkata

UN ‘way off target’ on promise to end HIV infections in newborn children

Unicef's senior adviser says that more than 330,000 children are being born with HIV every year despite proven treatment

Anti-prostitution pledge in US Aids funding ‘damaging’ HIV response

Activists at Aids conferences demand end to Pepfar conditions that prevent HIV programmes reaching vulnerable groups

Elton John at Aids conference: ‘I should be dead. I nearly died’

Speaking in Washington DC, musician says Aids epidemic is 'fuelled by stigma, violence and indifference'

Fight against HIV empowering sex workers in India, says UN Aids envoy

India's sex workers credited with pioneering successful HIV prevention programmes and generating wider social reforms

Aids still a threat, conference told

Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAids, says although the end of the epidemic is in sight, millions of people are still at risk

Aids breakthrough as study says treatment should cost less

Clinton Foundation delivers report showing cost of treating people with HIV is four times less than previously thought

Condom seizures from sex workers are undoing years of progress on HIV/Aids

Nichi Hodgson: Police in major American cities are using condoms as evidence of sex work, thereby discouraging their use

Sex workers gather in Kolkata for alternative Aids summit

In response to US visa restrictions that prevent them travelling to the international aids conference in Washington, sex workers have organised a week-long summit and protest in India

Living with families affected by HIV and Aids – video

Ahead of the international Aids 2012 conference, a film made by young people with parents affected by HIV and Aids gives their moving accounts

US condom crackdown impeding efforts to prevent HIV, study finds

Research shows sex workers most at risk of HIV are afraid to carry a stock of condoms in case they are stopped by police

How medical advances are changing the fight against HIV and Aids

As the UN reports a decline in Aids deaths and HIV infection rates, here are some of the developments at the frontline

Aids deaths are falling but progress is too slow, says UN report

Epidemic is being turned around, but 'not fast enough', and funding is under threat from economic downturn

Our Kind of People by Uzodinma Iweala – review

David Smith is disappointed by the much-feted novelist Uzodinma Iweala's non-fiction account of Aids in Africa