Despite the fact that HIV is now a treatable medical condition, the majority of U.S. states still have laws on the books that criminalize exposing other people to HIV. Whether or not the virus is ...

That experience moved Hurley to seek out PrEP, shorthand for preexposure prophylaxis. The antiretroviral medication greatly ...

It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease of the 1980s and 1990s is now affecting young people who were not even born when HIV first ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...

We might be a step closer to curing HIV, as researchers have developed a way to knock out a version of the virus lurking in the body. Using something called an HIV-like particle (HLP)—which are dead ...

With inadequate health screening, drug smuggling and reports of sexual violence, HIV-AIDS spreads silently through Pakistan’s ...

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As the world’s less affluent countries scramble for COVID-19 vaccine and contend with deadly surges of the disease, researchers in South Africa have just documented an ominous development: the ...

AIDS was a mystery disease when first formally recognized in patients in the U.S. in 1981. Transmission through sexual contact was rapidly recognized, but the source was initially unknown. Just three ...

Lynn Norment, a columnist for The Commercial Appeal, is a former editor for Ebony Magazine. It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease ...