Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...

Sitamarhi district in Bihar is witnessing a harrowing public health concern after official data revealed that more than 7,400 people have been registered as HIV positive, including hundreds of ...

We had a vaccine for COVID-19 within a year of identifying the virus that causes it, yet still don’t have one for HIV after 40 years of research. Why is that? On this week’s episode, Sam and Deboki ...

Contrary to the prevailing belief that the HIV epidemic in the UK can be traced back to one source, a new study suggests that HIV spread via at least six independent virus introductions and subsequent ...

KHARTOUM, 6 September (PlusNews) - Asha Ebrahim, a mother of eight living in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, vividly remembers the day she first learned she was HIV-positive seven years ago. "When the ...

Dr Ishwar Gilada, a Mumbai-based infectious disease expert, noted that the risk of HIV transmission is much less for reused syringes and that the risk is potentially higher for hepatitis B and ...

HIV is one of the world’s biggest killers. The virus has claimed more than 44 million lives, sparking fears around sex and immense stigma towards those most at risk, particularly men who have sex with ...

A long-standing belief about HIV has quietly shaped how scientists think about the virus. For decades, researchers described the virus as hiding in a “latent reservoir,” a group of infected cells that ...

Will HIV spread in Florida if state-funded HIV patients lose access to drugs? Observers are calling proposed changes to state-funded HIV assistance its biggest rollback since the aid went into place.