After decades of dashed hopes, AIDS vaccine developers are allowing themselves some cautious optimism. At a conference this week in Bangkok, Thailand, scientists reported molecular clues that help to ...

One of the continuing mysteries of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is why women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute HIV-1 infection but progress faster to AIDS than men with similar ...

Researchers may have finally answered the question of why many antibodies that target the HIV envelope are still unable to stop the virus from spreading -- a troublesome stumbling block in the ...

The Trump administration's funding cuts to PEPFAR and USAID disrupted global HIV treatment and prevention, threatening progress made over decades. Lenacapavir's FDA approval as a long-acting ...

Four years ago, a team of research physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine began treatment for an HIV patient, in the hopes of finding a cure. This February marked 14 months since the patient was free of ...

A major hurdle to curing people of HIV infection is the way the virus hides in a reservoir composed primarily of dormant immune cells. It is generally believed that HIV does not replicate in these ...

Irvine, Calif. -- A new UC Irvine study sheds light on how HIV develops into AIDS and suggests a possible way to block the deadly transformation. UCI biologist Dominik Wodarz has shown for the first ...

A new study has revealed how stem cells can be used to amplify immune responses to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The work, published in the journal JCI Insight, describes how the use of mesenchymal ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidance to recommend that doctors more readily prescribe and inform patients about medicine that prevents HIV called pre-exposure ...

Metformin is commonly used to help people with type 2 diabetes manage their blood sugar levels. The diabetes drug is derived from a lilac plant that’s been used medicinally for more than a thousand ...

Share on Pinterest Experts are calling for healthcare professionals to urgently improve HIV prevention among transgender individuals. Nolwen Cifuentes/Getty Images A new study finds that HIV ...