It was sent to 2,500 patients who had potentially been exposed to bloodborne viruses including HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C due to what the agency described as a failure to properly clean ...

Protein crystallization at the SER-CAT beamline at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source proved key to the discovery of a new HIV vaccine candidate.

An innovative dually fluorescent viral platform combining lipophilic dyes staining viral membrane, and a cleavable GFP-Gag chimeric protein as a fluid-phase marker present inside the virion was ...

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi will on Tuesday, 25 February lead the official launch of new HIV treatment campaign with the objective to close the gap by putting additional 1.1 million people ...

Antiretroviral drugs are used to treat HIV infection. They work by blocking a stage of the virus's life cycle and, by doing so, prevent the virus from replicating. The drugs are organized into six ...

After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, Linda-Gail Bekker could finally see the end of the epidemic in sight. For decades, HIV experts had dreamed of an elusive vaccine to ...

Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With no family to care for him, Evans was referred to the ...

The BBC was reporting on a trial vaccine that contained an HIV protein, not the virus itself, and which was never rolled out to the public. A viral Facebook post claims that a video shows how the BBC ...

LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. government's foreign aid freeze has upended the supply chain for medical products crucial for fighting diseases including HIV and malaria in some of the world's ...

Since the start of the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) epidemic back in 1981, an estimated 75.7 million people have been diagnosed with HIV worldwide, and 32.7 million people have died of ...