In recent years, public conversations about HIV have significantly shifted. Better testing, improved treatment and natural remedies have made it easier than ever for people to understand the virus, ...

Pseudoscience has recently re-emerged in the U.S. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: HIV is neither the cause nor the sole cause of AIDS. This nonsense has been ...

WASHINGTON – AIDS started as a big-city epidemic infecting mostly gay white men, and now it's prevalent in the South and among minorities. Yet the federal law that helps the neediest patients has not ...

HIV has long been thought of as a disease that primarily impacts gay men. That's wrongheaded.

After decades of research, there is still no cure for the disease HIV causes–AIDS. Each year, HIV infects more than one million people worldwide, and a vaccine remains stubbornly out of reach. Hope, ...

In the early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, death from infection was likely for most of those who were infected. Today, with antiviral treatment, a newly diagnosed person can live a near normal life ...

Not exactly. “Most people who get infected don’t even know. It’s only in hindsight they recognize the symptoms,” says Michael Horberg, M.D., director of HIV/AIDS for Kaiser Permanente. That's because ...

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 ...