Persistence of stigma toward people living with HIV has puzzled scientists looking at the numerous destigmatization campaigns that have taken place in the U.S. in the four decades since its initial discovery. Scientists have explained...
Tina Ridler shares her 4-year-long journey with lingering COVID symptoms from tremors and tinnitus to breathlessness and brain fog. She’s part of a community around the world that wants to be heard. WebMD
Editors from JAMA and its specialty journals on Thursday published a strongly-worded editorial opposing Trump administration censorship of government scientists and clinicians and vowed to uphold scientific integrity in communicating...
Can doctors trust health info now being restored to government websites after a judge’s order? Trump's administration had directed treatment guidelines and health data to be scrubbed from the sites. Medscape Medical News
Some U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientists have been told to stop using the words "woman," "disabled" and "elderly" in external communications, two sources familiar... Reuters Health Information
A multi-national, multi-institutional study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators found little natural resistance to a new HIV therapy called lenacapavir in a population of patients in Uganda.
When transitioning from prison to the community, formerly incarcerated individuals face numerous challenges, including lack of employment, housing, and health care. This transition is more precarious for those with HIV or opioid use...
Ethicist Art Caplan discusses ethical questions raised when virologist Beata Halassy treated her own breast cancer using experimental methods. Medscape Business of Medicine
A team of researchers from the University of Florida has developed an innovative handheld device for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) detection that combines paper-based sample preparation with real-time isothermal amplification. This...
In parts of the world where traveling to a clinic for routine blood tests is a financial and logistical challenge, HIV patients increasingly have the option to collect and ship a drop of their blood in paper-based devices that absorb the...
The progression of evidence has marched forward from studies showing a reduction in salt associated with lower blood pressure to clinical trials confirming cause-and-effect and now, a new incentive. Medscape Medical News
Researchers suggest that unprotected intercourse, an increase in the number of sexual partners, and changes in testing practices are potential causes. Medscape Medical News
Researchers at The Wistar Institute's HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center have successfully identified a new approach using natural killer (NK) cells to target and kill the HIV-positive cells that allow the virus to persist. Wistar...
Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its inner core into the host cell's nuclear membrane. The findings, by a University of Pittsburgh team using the...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment has gotten so good that people can take a pill once a day to achieve viral suppression that lets them live much longer than anyone could have imagined just a few decades ago.
Doxycycline post-exposure significantly reduces the incidence of sexually transmitted infections among individuals using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. Medscape Medical News
South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from... Reuters Health Information
Despite breakthroughs in HIV treatment and prevention worldwide, critical challenges such as stigma, unequal access and managing the virus for an aging population remain, a group of Rutgers Health experts said at a recent event to...
A generation has passed since the world saw the peak in AIDS-related deaths. Those deaths—agonizing, from diseases or infections the body might otherwise fight off—sent loved ones into the streets, pressuring governments to act. The...
With the endless stream of announcements, reversals, measures and countermeasures coming from the new administration of United States President Donald Trump, it has become difficult to make sense of what is just noise or opening...
Malaria vaccination and HIV treatment are among numerous health programmes at risk in Uganda as the country's science research centres suffer the impact of a US freeze on overseas aid.
Preexposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP, reduces the risk of new HIV infections through sex by 99% and among injectable drug users by at least 74%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped, warning that millions of people could die and more resistant...
Latonia Wilkins knows she needs to be on PrEP due to her non-monogamous lifestyle. But the 52-year-old Atlanta mother has faced repeated challenges getting the lifesaving drug that can prevent new HIV infections.
Aidsmap and NAM Publications has made the decision to transfer its assets to the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) and National AIDS Trust (NAT). Our Legacy Since our inception in 1987, NAM has been dedicated to providing reliable and...
Parties, family dinners, and other gatherings where food is served are all part of the holiday cheer. But the joy can change to misery if food makes you or others ill.
A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with HIV has unearthed diagnosis "blank spots" in Africa, according to research published today in The Lancet Global...
The Trump administration has made some concessions to the halt placed on distributions of global HIV treatments via the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), according to The New York Times.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged the United States to reconsider its decision to suspend funding for HIV treatment programs in developing countries, after President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on foreign aid.
A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for blood cancers.
President Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences.
The Trump administration has paused funding for a crucial HIV treatment program in Africa and developing countries for 90 days, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times.
A compound with the unpresuming designation of EBC-46 has made a splash in recent years for its cancer-fighting prowess. Now a new study led by Stanford researchers has revealed that EBC-46 also shows immense potential for eradicating...
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have quantified the impacts of a constellation of social factors on the spread of HIV. Their study, published in Health Care Management Science, found that a hypothetical 100%...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, posing a particularly significant threat to people with HIV (PWH). To address this, CVD prevention plans rely on prediction models like...
Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby providing protection.
A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of Regensburg has unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible for AIDS, skillfully hijacks cellular...
Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute successfully created an HIV vaccine candidate that guides key immune cells along an evolutionary pathway to become broadly neutralizing antibodies.
Promising new drugs to prevent and treat HIV have the potential to transform the response to the disease. But getting these drugs to those who need it most will be critical, says Beatriz Grinsztejn, president of the International AIDS...
More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine.
New challenges in HIV prevention and care are emerging due to climate change, according to a review published in Current Opinions in Infectious Disease.
More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine.
Speaking at the 16th International Aids Conference in 2006, the then UNAids executive director, Peter Piot, remarked: "Since the beginning of the epidemic, stigma, discrimination and gender inequality have been identified as major causes...
The human immune deficiency virus (HIV) first entered public consciousness in the early 1980s, after cases of unfamiliar and deadly illnesses began to overwhelm medical centers across North America.