HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. The illness known as HIV/AIDS happens in three stages: acute HIV infection, chronic HIV infection, and AIDS. But the phrase “chronic HIV infection” isn’t simply the ...

A new study led by researchers at the George Washington University and published through the DC Cohort, one of the largest HIV longitudinal studies in the United States, finds that nearly half of ...

The first symptoms of HIV are often similar to the flu, including fever, fatigue, and body aches. However, some people don't ...

Here's a look at AIDS and HIV globally, with a special focus on Africa. Facts: AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and is also called acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Other WRAL ...

The incidence of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) diagnoses in the United States have declined more than two-thirds since the height of the pandemic ...

AIDS was a mystery disease when first formally recognized in patients in the U.S. in 1981. Transmission through sexual contact was rapidly recognized, but the source was initially unknown. Just three ...

Infectious disease expert Dave Wessner reports from the 24 th International AIDS Conference, where researchers shared ways that Covid vaccine development might help the development of a vaccine for ...

Robin Lennon-Dearing has recieved funding from the University of Memphis Foundation and currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health under Grant 2P30AI042853-21. She is a member ...

As the world’s less affluent countries scramble for COVID-19 vaccine and contend with deadly surges of the disease, researchers in South Africa have just documented an ominous development: the ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...