Big Pharma delivers another life-saving medical advance, and another demonstration of the folly of price controls.

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 ...

June 19, 2025 – The FDA has approved the first twice-yearly shot to reduce the risk of HIV infections.

Learn more about lenacapavir, the most effective HIV treatment and prevention drug, and how its cost could cause a setback.

JP: HIV is difficult to cure because one part of the virus' life cycle is to integrate its own DNA into the human DNA of the cell it is infecting. These cells are very long-lived and can lie ...

The Trump administration's plan to cut funding for HIV vaccine research comes at a time when the field is making substantial ...

The US FDA has approved lenacapvir, sold under the brand name Yeztugo, as the first preventive treatment against HIV. It is a ...

This therapy works by targeting different stages of the HIV life cycle, preventing the virus from multiplying and reducing its levels in the bloodstream. The goal of cART is to reduce the viral ...

Medications can control HIV very successfully by interrupting its viral life cycle, however. While HIV is a virus that may cause an infection, AIDS (which is short for acquired immunodeficiency ...

“Current HIV medications interfere with the virus’ life cycle at different stages, so a combination of medications is necessary to suppress all HIV growth,” he explained. “If the HIV virus ...

interrupting the HIV life cycle as a result. This can stop the virus from multiplying. viral load Protease inhibitors need to be taken along with other medications to treat HIV effectively.