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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI ... back to experimental medicine vaccine studies –to the drawing table. So, HIV is very complicated. We don’t have a vaccine yest ...