HIV/AIDS remains a major public health threat worldwide, with an estimated 39.9 million people living with the disease at the ...

Read latest medical articles and view educational videos on AIDS and HIV symptoms and treatments. ... June 24, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered a stealthy tactic used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus: ...

Clinical trials have shown that six-monthly injections of lenacapavir are almost 100 percent protective against becoming ...

When you have AIDS, your body may find it hard to fight off colds. Make sure you do what you can to avoid catching one, and take good care of yourself if you do get sick. HIV, the virus that ...

Once you reach the second stage of HIV/AIDS -- chronic HIV infection -- the virus has started to reproduce at a far slower pace. Even without treatment, many people in this stage don’t notice ...

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 ...

Deaths from HIV/AIDS are ten times lower than at the peak of the epidemic, and new research could drive that down even more.

HIV and AIDS are not the same thing. HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system, specifically white blood cells called CD4 T cells, which help the body fight infections.

In the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, fear and paranoia reigned. The virus, which was first reported in the U.S. in 1981, ravaged vulnerable communities, and health care workers caring for ...