With new treatments and maybe even a vaccine on the horizon, 2025 could be an important year for improving the lives of ...

A drug used to treat HIV that has also shown promise in preventing infections is not a cure for those already infected, as claimed in social media posts. Apart from rare and dangerous stem cell ...

Without treatment, HIV keeps replicating and damages more and more cells, ultimately weakening the immune system and leaving it unable to fight these infections. However, a treatment known as ...

A University of Denver virologist and biophysicist is one step closer to understanding how HIV spreads once it enters the ...

Determinants of HIV cell tropism & chemokine receptor usage ... exhibit a strong resistance to HIV infection and delayed progression to AIDS, respectively. A single-nucleotide polymorphism in ...

White blood cells help your body fight infections. If you have HIV infection, your doctor may use a CD4:CD8 ratio test to track how well your immune system is responding to your medicine.

HIV impacts fertility in both men and women. In men, it leads to hormonal changes and sperm abnormalities. Women experience ...

Some people have a genetic mutation that changes the shape of this protein, meaning HIV can no longer attach to their cells, and these individuals are naturally resistant to infection. Since the ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Dolutegravir is an HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI) that does not require pharmacokinetic boosting ...

Her research and others' show that the virus uses a counterattack that breaks down APOBEC3's defenses, helping HIV win and establish an infection. "There is a battle going on in the cell," said ...

Researchers analyzed 22 recent studies exploring HIV-related outcomes in the context of climate change and identified several links between extreme weather events and HIV prevention and care.

HIV is a virus that damages cells in the immune system and disrupts the body's ability to fight off infections and diseases. If the immune system is severely damaged by HIV, the person can develop ...