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 ...

Anti-AIDS drugs may help prevent infection, if taken shortly after exposure to HIV. Now some people are considering taking these drugs before exposure to HIV as a way to prevent transmission of the ...

A recent CDC report documented a case of HIV infection in three women who received cosmetic injections in 2018. Although disturbing, this news is not catastrophic, like it would have been three ...

More than 40 years of AIDS research has led to significant advancements in treatment and prevention. Drugs to treat the infection continued to improve, as did patient outcomes. But now there's another ...

About one-third (35 percent) of AIDS patients diagnosed with the first opportunistic infection from 1997 to 2012 in San Francisco died within five years, according to a study published in the Journal ...

Some African nations have teams that provide door-to-door health checkups, but HIV testing and drugs are often only available at clinics.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - India now has the largest number of AIDS infections as the spread of the disease shows no sign of letting up a quarter-century into an epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives, ...

Melissa Schnure, PhD, wants to make sure some of the country’s most vulnerable patients are protected — low-income people living with HIV who depend on federally funded HIV services.It is why Schnure, ...

ATLANTA — The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have ...

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