HIV is "like a time bomb," said James Riley, a microbiologist at University of Pennsylvania, US. Even now — decades after the virus was identified — and with antiretroviral drugs allowing us to ...

Medications to treat HIV are effective, but not curative. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins say they’re working on a new treatment – and it’s one already in use for cancer patients. They are very ...

HIV researchers in Australia have figured out a way to make the virus visible in white blood cells using mRNA, something that could lead to an eventual cure. Researchers from the Peter Doherty ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People with HIV had a lower likelihood of receiving treatment for cancer if they lived in areas with low income ...

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 ...

Jim’s Courage’ shares the story of late San Diego resident Jim Dunn and his role in research aiming to find a cure for HIV ...

Research into this new way of treating HIV is only beginning. When it was first named in 1983, HIV was thought to be a death sentence. The virus replicated rapidly in the people it infected because ...

LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to be cured of HIV when he had a unique type of bone marrow transplant, has died in California after relapsing with cancer, his ...

Mark was diagnosed in 1985 with HIV in Chicago. It was the same week Rock Hudson died from AIDS; Mark had been extremely sick ...

But in the 1990s the virus that causes AIDS turned out to offer a solution. Researchers discovered how to strip away HIV’s destructive genes and repurpose it as a “lentiviral vector”—a tool to deliver ...