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 ...

Government leaders, community organizers and the Elton John AIDS Foundation are introducing a powerful new tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Kenya. In western Kenya, two major barriers prevent ...

If you live with an advanced case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), you can be an easy target for different infections and diseases. HIV weakens your immune system. It hijacks white blood cells ...

BOSTON — A year ago, a man living with HIV walked into the exam room of Maile Young Karris, MD, from the UC San Diego Medical Center. He had seen on the news that there was a cure for HIV, and asked ...

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 ...

In April 2025, we published a story with the headline: "Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out." It looked at the impact of President Trump's cuts to foreign aid ...

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 ...