HIV: human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS. HIV attacks the immune system by destroying CD4 positive (CD4+) T cells, a type of white blood cell that is vital to fighting off ...

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 ...

Thirty-six years ago, the World Health Organization declared Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day, creating an international day of awareness for those living with HIV and AIDS. For us, every Dec. 1 is a call to ...

International experts gathered in Windhoek from 13 to 17 November 2000 in a meeting on "The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and its Gender Implications" and urged Governments and the international community to ...

In the late 1980s, a movement emerged in response to the lack of resources, communication and support provided to those with HIV and AIDS. Because the disease was initially labeled Gay-Related Immune ...

Sharing needles with other people has risks. When you use someone else’s needle to inject drugs, steroids, or other substances, you come in contact with their blood. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ...

Since 1988, Dec. 1 has served as World AIDS Day, a day of remembrance and recognition for the tens of millions of people across the globe living with HIV/AIDS—and the tens of millions who have died ...

Today, HIV can be kept under control, but for most people, there is no cure because the virus can become dormant so HIV medicines have no effect. That could change in future, now progress has been ...