Opinion: "While the obstacles we face may be significant, Lenacapavir represents a monumental breakthrough in the fight ...

People infected with HIV must take antiretroviral drugs for life. But engineered antibodies appeared to suppress the virus for certain participants in recent trials in Africa and Europe A digital ...

In 1959, the first case of HIV – the virus that causes AIDS – was confirmed in the blood of a recently deceased man. In the early 1980s, the virus had spread to the US and the UK, with cases ...

After four decades of hard-won progress toward curbing the HIV epidemic, the face of the disease is changing.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals how HIV integrates its genetic material into human DNA, exposing a key viral vulnerability that could lead to new therapies and bring the world closer to a ...

In 1981, physicians in Los Angeles reported five young patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia, a rare lung infection later recognized as the first sign of HIV infection and a defining illness of AIDS.

The National Institutes of Health placed a big bet on Oregon scientist Jonah Sacha this week, awarding Sacha and his colleagues an $8.4 million, five-year grant for their work developing a cure for ...

Godfrey Dzhivhuho has dedicated his career to understanding HIV and other infectious diseases, inspired by the epidemic he witnessed growing up. Raised in Warrenton-Kimberly, South Africa, the oldest ...

Over the next week, we'll be looking back at some of our favorite Goats and Soda stories to see "whatever happened to ..." In July 2024, we published a story with the headline: "One of the 7 people ...

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and the University of North Carolina are teaming up to establish a research institute and a company that will seek a cure for HIV/AIDS, The New York Times reports.

A man has been declared HIV-free, in a case that “upends our understanding of what’s required” for a cure, according to The New Scientist. He was the seventh patient found to be clear of the virus ...