Only the second person in history to be fully cured of the virus...

A recording of Paris Hilton discussing how disgusting gay people are, and how they all have AIDS, has made its way online, via Radar.

So.

AIDS is a horrible disease, both in its effects and in how it operates.

Fold.it is a distributed computing project where gamers play around with proteins and link amino acids to find the optimal configurations for them.

Gamers now have the ultimate comeback for anyone who ever claims that their passion is leads to increased violence, mental retardation, humanity's downfall and whatnot: A group of gamers spent three weeks playing Foldit, an online protein-folding game, and in the course of doing so helped scientists develop the structure of an enzyme that could be used to help fight HIV and AIDS.

Eric Poeschla and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, have developed a gene therapy based immunization for feline AIDS which can also further our understanding of fighting HIV in humans.

You probably heard earlier this week that doctors at Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin hospital announced they had "cured" HIV in a cancer patient who had received a stem cell transplant.

Have you heard this one before? Captain Planet and Hitler walk into a bar... and someone makes an episode out of it.