For people who grew up in an America where it felt like HIV/AIDS had always existed, it can be hard to imagine just how quickly the at-first-unknown virus arrived and spread in the United States — ...

Learn about the medical advancements and challenges faced by older adults living with HIV. Experts and survivors share their insights.

In 1983, I began my career in healthcare as a trainee in a hospital in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while I was still a medical student. This was when we first started seeing a ...

A damning myth about the origins of HIV in North America spun out of a single “ambiguous oval,” according to the authors of a new genetic study on the virus. In that early 1980s cluster study, ...

Editor’s Note: Chris Beyrer, M.D., is president of the International AIDS Society and Desmond Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The present genetic diversity of HIV is the result of multiple cross-species transfers to humans from African non-human primates. HIV-1 has its origin in chimpanzees and is the result of three ...

The first known case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was in 1959 in the Congo. By the 1980s the virus was spreading rapidly, with cases reported across the Americas and Europe. HIV has now ...

WASHINGTON — More than 600 activists and allies from across the country gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to push for HIV funding from their congressional leadership and spread awareness of ...

Wednesday marks World AIDS Day, a global event observed on December 1 every year calling people to unite in the fight against HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), which can lead to AIDS (acquired ...