Sweden saw its lowest number of Aids cases last year since the HIV epidemic began. Among new HIV cases, the typical patient was a 36-year-old heterosexual man who caught the virus abroad.
New and effective HIV therapies have left experts challenging Sweden's law that demands HIV patients must disclose their condition to their partner before sex.
Swedish scientists have identified a new variant of HIV that makes patients develop Aids almost twice as fast compared to the other variants of the virus, Lund University researchers revealed on Thursday.
A Swedish court of appeal acquitted a man with HIV after he had been sentenced to a year in prison for having unprotected sex with four women despite knowing that he was infected with the virus.
HIV is no longer a life-threatening illness, but carriers in Sweden are still stigmatized due to a lack of knowledge, argue health officials, who are calling for changes in Sweden's legal system to take medical advances into account.
Comedian and author Jonas Gardell was named 'Swede of the Year' on Thursday, following the success of his book 'Never Dry Tears Without Gloves' (Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar) that chronicles the Aids epidemic in Sweden in the 1980s.
As Sweden marks 30 years since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in the country, The Local's <b>Christine Demsteader</b> learns how Swedes have been forced to face an uncomfortable reality about the stigma surrounding those who first tested positive for HIV.
Sweden's Green Party has called on the government to apologize to people infected with HIV during the eighties for having been "violated by society and its institutions".
A Swedish doctor with HIV who was convicted for having unprotected sex should be allowed to keep practicing, hospital management has argued, prompting a group of employees to slam the move as "unethical".
A 20-year-old man from Malmö, southern Sweden, was sentenced to eight months in prison for not telling eight women that he was infected with HIV before having sex with them.
An attendant midwife at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge in southern Stockholm used the same needle to treat a new mother as she had for another HIV positive patient.
The head of the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria pledged "zero tolerance" for corruption on Monday after Sweden announced it would not commit to its contributions amid reports of "grave misuse" of about $34 million in four African countries.
Sweden has announced that it will not pay its 1.5 billion kronor ($226 million) contribution to the global fund to fight AIDS unless more is done to ensure the cash does not fall into the wrong hands, a report said Saturday.
Four experts on HIV and criminal law have called for an overhaul of the law against infectious diseases act on World AIDS Day, alleging that the duty of disclosure has resulted in a spike in new Swedish HIV cases.
According to a study done by Karolinska University Hospital, several female refugees from Africa have died of AIDS after Swedish doctors failed to test them for HIV, reports Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
Prominent feminist politician Birgitta Ohlsson is demanding that the Swedish government launch a formal protest with the Vatican over what she sees as the “religious fundamentalism” of Pope Benedict XVI.
A man convicted for the statutory rape of a minor is free to continue practicing as a physiotherapist in Sweden pending a ruling from the country’s medical responsibility board about whether or not to recall his licence.
The risk of being infected by HIV may be determined by the presence of a molecule in a person’s blood cells, according to a discovery made by Swedish scientists working as part of an international research team.
Over a million Swedes are expected to stay glued to their television sets on Wednesday to watch monarchs, politicians and assorted clever clogs tuck in to the annual Nobel banquet.
A call has gone out for all men who have had sex with prostitutes in Gothenburg in the past year to get tested for HIV, after a prostitute was shown to be infected with the AIDS virus.
A vaccine undergoing early trials in Sweden is reviving hopes for a so-called DNA vaccine against the AIDS virus, Swedish researchers said on Thursday.
