DAP Health has received the new twice-yearly injection for HIV prevention. Here's what you need to know if you're interested ...

HIV antivirals may be the key to stopping HTLV-1, a deadly virus with no cure. In a decade-long study, researchers successfully suppressed the virus in mice and discovered a way to kill infected cells ...

Medically reviewed by Renita White, MD A non-reactive result from an HIV test means that you tested negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In most cases, that means you don't have a ...

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 ...

Previous research from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that approximately 38% of people infected with mpox also had HIV, meaning that the new study is significant.

FIVE people with HIV are currently free of detectable virus – and daily drugs – thanks to a new vaccine-based therapy. Although it is early days, one participant has been drug-free for seven ...

When thinking about how to help minimize HIV risk, Bowen says it’s important to target the right people. “The long-term residents might need help in other areas, but the research suggests they’re not ...

The origin of AIDS was originally unknown, as was that of HIV. Together with the virulence of the disease, these unknowns inspired a great deal of fear in the early days of the epidemic, which in ...

A seventh person has potentially been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer, researchers announced on the eve of the 25th International AIDS Conference.

A New Definition of Cure When Ravindra Gupta, MD, from University College London, presented the case of the London patient at CROI 2019, he was very careful to say "remission", not "cure".

Being homeless puts people at greater risk of HIV infection than those with stable housing, but targeting services to reduce risk behaviors is often complicated by fuzzy definitions of homelessness.