HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. There is currently no effective cure, but HIV treatment can help people ...

Sample blood collection tube with HIV test label on HIV infection screening test form. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Room's Studio) A non-reactive HIV test result generally means good news – you ...

Some people living with HIV develop antibodies capable of neutralizing many different strains of the virus. New research links this to immune responses that occur early in infection. The findings, ...

A long-standing belief about HIV has quietly shaped how scientists think about the virus. For decades, researchers described ...

However, in one of its first important findings, tree-building soon revealed two different types of HIV, now regarded as separate species. The first (particularly infective and virulent) type ...

HIV is a lifelong infection that affects many people. People with HIV take many different types of medicines to help control their condition and to prevent the infection from developing into AIDS.

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 ...