HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is the microorganism responsible for AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and ...

For the first time, the treatments would be aimed not at the virus itself, but at a portal through which HIV enters white blood cells and attacks the immune system. Scientists in 1996 identified ...

HIV infections (human immunodeficiency virus infections) include the spectrum of infections caused by the virus HIV that range from asymptomatic seropositivity to acquired immunodeficiency ...

About 640 000 children have been orphaned by the virus. Picture: AFP Health advocacy groups have welcomed the HIV-Aids clinical trial showing HIV patients can control the virus without using ...

This risk of regression grows out of many factors: complacency, barriers to reaching vulnerable and marginalized populations, distractions, the power of the HIV virus in the absence of a vaccine or ...

An annual injection designed to guard against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has completed an important early safety trial, researchers report in The Lancet, external medical journal.

This molecule, known as EBC-46, works by temporarily activating the HIV virus in the affected cells as they hide so that the body’s immune system can remove the virus, according to a study published ...

About 13% of people who have HIV don’t know they have it — one driver of the virus’ continuing spread. Ending AIDS in the United States by 2030 was one of President Donald Trump’s stated ...

Proposed cuts to global foreign aid, including slashing programs in the United States, could lead to millions of HIV deaths and soaring rates of infections around the world in the coming years ...