HIV is infamous for its ability to hide in the human body for decades, typically requiring long-term treatment to prevent a ...

Leaders in HIV research highlighted the critical role of that research has played in advancing HIV science over the past 40 years. In a commentary in Nature Medicine, they explained how U.S.-funded ...

The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukemia, researchers reported on Wednesday. While the transplant was planned to treat the now-66-year-old’s ...

Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the ...

A German man has become the third person ever to be effectively “cured” of HIV thanks to a stem cell transplant 10 years ago. His breakthrough case was first announced in 2019, but it wasn’t until ...

To develop treatments that may one day entirely rid the body of HIV infection, scientists have long sought to identify all of the places that the virus can hide its genetic code. Now, in a study using ...

There are currently ~38 million people worldwide living with HIV. If left untreated, HIV infection progresses to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) where patients become extremely vulnerable to ...

South Africa has become the first African country, and our medicines regulator the third worldwide, to register the ...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), first identified in 1984, causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The HIV/AIDS endemic has taken more than 34 million lives, and despite being out ...

Research suggests sickle cell anemia may offer some protection against HIV and may also slow HIV progression. However, experts still need further research to understand why this occurs. Share on ...