The tiny shell protecting the HIV virus resembles a slightly rounded ice cream cone, but there is nothing sweet about it.

More than 36 million people worldwide, including 1.2 million in the U.S., are living with an HIV infection. Today's anti-retroviral cocktails block how HIV replicates, matures and gets into uninfected ...

40 million people live with HIV globally, and that number continues to rise. While therapies exist to reduce the amount of HIV in a patient's body and, in turn, reduce HIV symptoms, there remains no ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure, bringing researchers closer to finding ways to flush out the dormant virus and ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their research shows that small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly ...

"The future looks bright as far as a cure," one top HIV cure researcher told LGBTQ Nation.

In an important discovery, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables the human immunodeficiency ...

A therapy originally developed for HIV now provides new options for patients with rare genetic disorders. It’s now possible to use these drugs to address DNA defects and enhance muscle function. This ...

Although existing treatments allow a full life with the HIV virus, now, more than ever, scientists are close to developing a mechanism that will completely remove the virus from the body.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a viral infection that attacks our immune systems. Infection enters the body by contact with bodily fluids, such a blood and semen. The disease can be transmitted ...