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 ...

Using participant skin cells reprogrammed into neurons, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified genetic signatures ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new manufacturing process is on track to make developing HIV-prevention medication more affordable and potentially decrease new HIV infections in hard-hit countries. Virginia ...

Research into this new way of treating HIV is only beginning. When it was first named in 1983, HIV was thought to be a death sentence. The virus replicated rapidly in the people it infected because ...

In 1981, physicians in Los Angeles reported five young patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia, a rare lung infection later recognized as the first sign of HIV infection and a defining illness of AIDS.

Tackling HIV continues to be a major public health challenge, mainly because the persistence of viral reservoirs means that people living with HIV need to take lifelong antiretroviral treatment. But ...

You may have heard about Biktarvy, a medicine approved by the FDA in 2018 to treat people with HIV who have not been treated yet. It may also be used to replace another medicine for treating HIV in ...