HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. The illness known as HIV/AIDS happens in three stages: acute HIV infection, chronic HIV infection, and AIDS. But the phrase “chronic HIV infection” isn’t simply the ...

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 help ...

Forty years ago, researchers described the mysterious cases of five gay men who had fallen ill with a pneumonia caused by the fungus Pneumocystis carinii. Two of the five men had already died. That ...

You can have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and not know it. You also can have been exposed to HIV but not necessarily be infected. About 1 in 7 people who are HIV-positive are unaware of it. The ...

A Dec. 15 Facebook video shows Kary Mullis, a scientist known for denying the link between HIV and AIDS, claiming again there is no proof HIV is the cause of AIDS. A narrator says Mullis found no ...

New AI system helps scientists rapidly pinpoint the most promising paths to an HIV vaccine. view more . Credit: Scripps ...

Godfrey Dzhivhuho has dedicated his career to understanding HIV and other infectious diseases, inspired by the epidemic he witnessed growing up. Raised in Warrenton-Kimberly, South Africa, the oldest ...