HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV/AIDS is spread through sexual contact with an infected person, sharing needles with an infected ...

As this year's International AIDS Conference opened in Barcelona this weekend, grim news awaited the 15,000 delegates in attendance. More than two decades after the first case reports of AIDS, it ...

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 ...

Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system by attaching to and killing immune system cells called CD4 lymphocyte cells.

The 4-decades long effort to create an AIDS vaccine suffered a blow with news that a vaccine in a late stage trial was discontinued because results showed it to be ineffective. What are the obstacles?

I visited several orphanages and discovered they were filled with children whose mothers had passed the virus to them in vitro. AIDS again became the background noise in my life.

Chronic HIV infection is the second stage of HIV/AIDS. Learn more about what this phase is and how you can keep it from progressing to AIDS.

1986: The virus causing AIDS was officially named HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus. 1987: The FDA approved Zidovudine (AZT), the first antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV.

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV/AIDS is spread through sexual contact with an infected person, sharing needles with an infected ...

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV/AIDS is spread through sexual contact with an infected person, sharing needles with an infected ...

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV/AIDS is spread through sexual contact with an infected person, sharing needles with an infected ...