AIDS does not occur in everyone with HIV, but it can if HIV is left untreated. Without defenses to ward off disease, a person with AIDS can develop severe and potentially life-threatening infections.

HIV/AIDS impacts people from every region, race, and economic background. From infants to adults, the disease does not discriminate. ... we can make AIDS a disease of the past.

AIDS has become the number one cause of mortality among adults 15-49 years of age. Mortality rates, usually caused by other important diseases such as malaria, have doubled and tripled because of ...

Overview Around the world, governments, institutions, and individuals are struggling to deal with epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS infection. How communities and nations address AIDS reflects their ...

Paul M. Renfro provides a rich history of Ryan White’s AIDS diagnosis, his legal battle for the right to attend public school, his celebrity status as an “innocent victim” of the HIV/AIDS ...

In 2005, Aids nearly killed me – now I’m determined to outlive the condition. ... Despite coming from a strict Roman Catholic background in Ireland, they were led by love and always by my side.

Stacker compiled a list of books—including nonfiction, memoir, fiction, anthologies, and poetry— that center on the humanity of people diagnosed with HIV or AIDS.

If TB and HIV/AIDS reporting began as histories of resistance, the story was very different when it came to cancer reporting, which lagged far behind infectious disease surveillance.

By the time I transitioned to AIDS in 1992, we were 11 years into the pandemic and there had not been one study in the United States on women living with the disease.

Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED), is a rare disease that happens when your body's immune system mistakenly attacks your inner ear.It can cause dizziness, ringing in your ears, and hearing loss ...