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

For years, John Fleischman carried the journal of his late mentor, who died from HIV/AIDS. He finally found the perfect home ...

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

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

These cells are also called CD4+ and CD8+ cells, respectively. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) chiefly targets CD4 cells. A low number of these cells and a low ratio (under 1.0) of CD4 and ...

The next year brought the breakthrough that still defines HIV treatment today: highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). HAART uses three or more drugs that work in at least two different ways.

Monitoring thyroid dysfunction from HIV could prevent hypothyroidism in the few patients who have these abnormalities.

Sundquist’s research focuses on understanding how the HIV virus is built on a molecular level and how it interacts with the body to infect and spread through cells. By purifying and analyzing the ...

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS − a disease in which ... in which HIV infection was cured when the patient had a stem cell transplant that was necessary to treat a concurrent lymphoma or ...

China's top drug regulator has recently approved the nation's first stem cell therapy to treat a type of complication associated with bone marrow transplant, as well as a novel HIV drug that only ...

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 ...

As cells reproduce, the HIV DNA inside replicates fast and makes mistakes, creating mutations that can make treatment harder. Antiretroviral therapy, which interrupts the virus’ copy-and-paste ...