The revolutionary drug was found to decrease HIV virus count in the blood samples by as much as 97 percent in just eight days.

The UN has declared that circumcision is an efficient way to battle the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. It now called on Israel to use PrePex, a revolutionary Israeli medical device, to circumcise 700,000 Rwandan men.

What started as a modest Israeli project intended to bring better treatment to African HIV/Aids orphans, is now a major project in Ethiopia and Uganda, substantially reducing mortality rates and providing hope of a brighter future for these children.

Roughly a quarter of the world's population still suffers from tropical diseases, largely neglected in richer countries. Students from Ben Gurion University traveled to Africa to help battle the deadly diseases.

One of modern medicine's biggest challenges today is viruses. Despite great advances in many fields of medicine, some diseases caused by viruses are still extremely hard to treat. Israeli company Vecoy aims to change all that with a new approach: creating synthetic cells that lure the viruses away from the body they are trying to infect.

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem developed a new method to treat cancer using a protein extracted from the HIV virus. This protein can prevent the restoration of cancerous cells damaged by radiation therapy.

Israeli doctors are training local doctors all over Africa to circumcise adult men in order to reduce the spread of HIV/Aids on the continent.