Despite the fact that HIV is now a treatable medical condition, the majority of U.S. states still have laws on the books that criminalize exposing other people to HIV. Whether or not the virus is ...

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 ...

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 Dec. 15 Facebook video shows Kary Mullis, a scientist known for denying the link between HIV and AIDS, claiming again there is no proof HIV is the cause of AIDS. A narrator says Mullis found no ...

An estimated 40.8 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and it killed about 630,000 people last year. View on ...

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 ...

The U.S. commitment to ending HIV is shaken. For the first time, we didn't formally mark World AIDS Day. And Trump has cut ...

As someone who has spent many years studying and responding to viral threats, I’m deeply concerned that we face an unprepared future again. Significant cutbacks in medical science funding, especially ...

Forty years ago, researchers described the mysterious cases of five gay men who had fallen ill with a pneumonia caused by the fungus Pneumocystis carinii. Two of the five men had already died. That ...

People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are living longer thanks to treatments like antiretroviral therapy, or ART. That’s a medication that lowers the amount of HIV in your body and keeps your ...

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 ...

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 ...