HIV can destroy entire "families" of CD4 cells, and then the germs these cells fight have easy access to your body. The resulting illnesses are called opportunistic infections (OIs) because they ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

Your CD4 cell count drops, your HIV viral load rises again, and you become very infectious.‌ If you have AIDS, you will get other infections that become serious because your immune system is ...

An immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human ...

Mono and HIV share several overlapping symptoms, including fever, fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes, which can make it hard to ...

In 3-year data from the CAPELLA study, the subcutaneous, long-acting capsid inhibitor lenacapavir (Sunlenca) demonstrated ...

Only one individual in a high-risk population who received early intervention progressed to an AIDS diagnosis.

Women living with HIV can reduce their risk of cervical cancer using a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that is both ...

The combination therapy of bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir (BIC/FTC/TAF) was both tolerable and produced virologic ...

As the science stands, the vast majority of the roughly eight million people in South Africa living with HIV will have to get ...

Highly effective treatments for HIV have existed since the mid-1990s. But while these treatments keep people healthy, we do not yet have a safe and scalable way to completely rid the body of the virus ...

While we can celebrate an overall reduction of 19% in estimated new HIV infections over roughly a 10-year period (2010-2022), during that same period, estimated new HIV infections among Latinos ...