HIV is among the greatest crises facing our black youth. This Sunday, on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, what will you do to help break the cycle?

Gilead’s daily antiviral pills can prevent HIV transmission and slow AIDS. While an HIV vaccine remains the Holy Grail, Gilead’s new long-lasting injection, lenacapavir, is the next best thing.

Our immune systems can completely clear many viruses our bodies, but that’s not the case with HIV. Medications can control HIV very successfully by interrupting its viral life cycle, however.

Also, our estimate did not include a potential effect of menstrual cycle on genital HIV viral load, but we note that a recent study did not observe such effect.

Women with long-term HIV are prone to amenorrhea, which can lead to infertility, cardiovascular issues, and poor bone health. High CDH cell counts and HIV treatments reduce menstrual ...

The FDA approved Yeztugo (lenacapavir), a twice-yearly injection that prevents HIV with up to 99.9% effectiveness, showing zero infections in women and nearly perfect protection in men.

An HIV viral load test can help diagnose an infection and guide treatment choices. Find out how viral load is tested and what the results mean.

The CD4 count is a test that measures how strong your immune system is. Find out how it helps your doctor make HIV and AIDS treatment decisions.

Whether antiretroviral therapy (ART) is always completely suppressive, or HIV might continue to replicate at low levels despite ART in some people with HIV (PWH), is still debated. Here, we ...

This transmission electron microscopy image shows many HIV viral particles (red/orange) at various stages in their life cycle. Can you identify viruses early in the viral formation process?

Scientists from the pharmaceutical company Merck have published the first detailed data about a subset of the familiar non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) drugs that, in addition to ...

“The HIV-1 Nef accessory factor enhances the viral life cycle in vivo, promotes immune escape of HIV-infected cells, and represents an attractive antiretroviral drug target,” they team noted.