The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first used the term “AIDS” on Sept. 24, 1982, more than a year after the first cases appeared in medical records. Those early years of the crisis ...

HIV/AIDS is not a punishment, but an infection that can be prevented with caution and awareness. It is wrong to consider it a sexually transmitted disease only.

Lenacapavir has the potential to end the HIV epidemic, researchers say. The Trump administration says backing this kind of ...

How Does Yeztugo Work to Prevent HIV? HIV is a virus that has a coating around it, which is called a capsid. In order for HIV to make copies of itself and spread within your body, it needs to get ...

How Was It Studied for HIV? Several clinical trials have been conducted to see if Biktarvy is safe and effective for treating people with HIV. Two studies focused on those who have never been ...

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 ...

Many can use the help. According to a recent analysis of 49 countries, the U.S. accounts for the majority of HIV/AIDS financing in 15 of them — and over 90% in Tanzania, Côte d’Ivoire, and Haiti.

The plan to target pregnant and breastfeeding mothers will be administered through PEPFAR. Critics said it appeared to ...

Thirty eight per cent of Nyeri County is covered with forests; making it Kenya’s most forested county. It ranks lower – 26th – in HIV/Aids infection. Elgeyo-Marakwet, whose forest cover is ...