Background Evidence impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health-related indicator in Sub-Saharan Africa is limited. We aimed to ...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are still fairly common and an estimated 40 million people worldwide are ...
Long-term antiretroviral therapy helps people with HIV reduce the risk of pneumonia and shingles by strengthening the immune system. A large study shows that higher CD4 counts and sustained ART lower ...
Using condoms correctly can lower your risk of HIV by approximately 85%. You can use PrEP medication to prevent HIV from sex by 99% and from injection drug use by 74%. Testing for HIV frequently helps ...
People with HIV on long-term antiretroviral therapy and with CD4 counts above 500 face infection risks similar to the general population, a new cohort study finds.
With 9.5% of its population estimated to be HIV-positive in 2019, Malawi has one of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in ...
Rare case shows a man living virus free for years after stopping treatment, raising new questions about how the immune system ...
As the world observes HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, attention turns to education, stigma reduction, and empowering communities to ...
Birmingham native Carlton V. Bell II is an artist who believes telling the stories of the most marginalized can heal society’s wounds of apathy. As a Black queer creative who lives with HIV, Bell has ...
Change has been a long time coming. While HIV is now a very treatable condition, and we have the means to prevent the ongoing transmission of the condition, we need to ask why new cases are being ...
A man has become the seventh person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. Significantly, he is also the second of the seven who received stem cells that ...