Wesley Sundquist, a biochemist at University of Utah, and Tomas Cihlar, a virologist at Gilead, a biopharmaceutical company, ...

What about viruses? Would you consider them living or nonliving? Let’s look closely at the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – to find out. This ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Early signs of HIV can include fatigue, rash, fever, chills, headache, sore throat, ...

Women may experience unique symptoms of HIV. Early on, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) typically causes flu-like symptoms, which are similar across sexes. HIV symptoms in women may differ after ...

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

A ground-breaking HIV cure trial conducted in Durban has shown promising results in achieving antiretroviral therapy (ART)-free virus control. The trial revealed that 20% of participants remained ...

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 ...

ART also cuts the number of new infections by suppressing the virus in people living with HIV, thus preventing transmission, he told Live Science in an email. "In the worst-case scenario ...