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Many treatments can help people with HIV live longer, more fulfilling lives. The main treatment for HIV is antiretroviral medication. Every year, researchers are investigating new therapies in the ...

What Are HIV/AIDS Medications? HIV medications can help lower your viral load, fight infections, and improve your quality of life. They can lower your chances of spreading HIV, but if you take ...

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Lamivudine oral tablet is a generic prescription drug used to treat HIV alongside other antiretroviral drugs, and to treat long-term hepatitis B. It’s usually taken once or twice per day.

Descovy (emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide) is a brand-name oral tablet prescribed for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in certain people at risk of developing HIV. Descovy also treats HIV in ...

If the past four decades have taught us anything about HIV, it's to adjust our expectations—despite enormous progress in ...

An annual shot to protect against HIV infection has successfully passed an early safety trial, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. The drug lenacapavir passed a critical ...

People with AIDS also have HIV, as HIV is the first stage of AIDS. Learn about the differences, how the conditions overlap, ...

When ViiV Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson launched their once-monthly injectable HIV treatment Cabenuva in 2021, they predicted that patients would prefer that option to the need to take tablets ...

“These data show the potential for biomedical HIV prevention with a once-yearly dosing interval,” experts wrote in The Lancet. More studies will be needed to confirm the efficacy of the treatment, ...