For millions of people living with HIV, a daily regimen of medications is a lifelong necessity. If they stop taking the drugs ...

Since the HIV epidemic began, the diagnosis of HIV has evolved from a death sentence to a chronic, but manageable condition by starting and staying on treatment. HIV treatment can help people live ...

HIV exhausts the body's immune system by overactivating it, despite effective antiviral treatment. Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden have conducted cell studies showing that an existing ...

Imagine a game of chess where your opponent's king is in check. It cannot move, but the game is not over—the piece remains on the board. This is how the body might control HIV on its own: The virus ...

Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, has shown 100% efficacy in preventing HIV in women at a high risk for infection, according to an interim analysis of the phase 3 PURPOSE ...

Findings identify genes that may represent possible new targets for a "block and lock" strategy for curing HIV.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...

You may have heard about Descovy (des-ko'-vee), a medicine approved by the FDA in 2015. Descovy is approved to treat HIV. It can also help prevent people from getting HIV through sex. People with HIV ...

•Nigeria has recorded remarkable progress in the fight against mother-to-child HIV transmission through expanded access to ART and improved testing and counselling during pregnancy. However, stigma, ...