U.S. aid unleashed a flood of lifesaving antiretroviral pediatric drugs. It funded doctors and data systems. It helped build an ultramodern medical facility in the center of the country, known as the ...

Treatment with HIV medicines is known as antiretroviral therapy. It helps to boost immunity, but there are side effects of ...

Hiding behind numerous disguises, HIV has been evading researchers for years, leaving the search for a vaccine as elusive as ...

A wart is usually firmer, while a skin tag dangles. HPV causes warts, while the cause of skin tags is unclear. Find out other ...

The skin microbiome plays an important role in health and disease. Researchers have now substantiated that certain skin bacteria can protect us from the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation specifically ...

A panelist discusses how CD4 counts serve as measures of immune system status that typically increase by about 200 in the first year of antiretroviral therapy. Although there can be laboratory ...

A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus.

Worldwide, an estimated 40 million people live with HIV. Two-thirds of this group are on the African continent. In 2023, more ...

The CDC uses molecular cluster detection to find the transmission of HIV that could pinpoint where there are gaps in HIV care ...

Testing and monitoring of HIV patients across South Africa have fallen since the United States cut aid that funded health workers and clinics, with pregnant women, infants and youth the most affected, ...