These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into ...

The High Court has advised convicted criminals to stop raising HIV as a special circumstance during mitigation because the infection is no longer deadly due to advancements in its treatment.Judges of ...

HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is the microorganism responsible for AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and ...

in the Middle Ages - Yersinia pestis - might give people now carrying the mutation increased resistance to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) compared to non-carriers. New research has thrown ...

They mainly attack bacteria and fungi. HIV is a virus. Viruses are microscopic germs that are unable to multiply (replicate) by themselves. Instead, they need to find and infect a cell that will act ...

A series of orders from the Trump administration have the potential to disrupt the delivery of life-saving medications to HIV ...

According to pediatric infectious disease physician Jason Brophy, with appropriate precautions it is possible for an HIV-positive mom to give birth without passing the virus on to the child.

HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus humimdef1. SARs-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, would be known as Betacoronavirus pandemicum. Ebola was now Orthoebolavirus zairense.

The new administration's freeze on foreign aid (affecting America's sweeping anti-HIV initiative PEPFAR) has raised concerns ...

Scientists are struggling to create drugs which stop the HIV virus hiding inside our genomes. Image: picture alliance / Xinhua News Agency HIV is "like a time bomb," said James Riley, a ...

A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of Regensburg has unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible ...

The European Commission (EC) has authorised the use of ViiV Healthcare’s Vocabria (cabotegravir long-acting injections) plus Rekambys (rilpivirine long-acting injections) from Johnson & Johnson (J&J) ...