Why some people naturally control HIV even after stopping therapy—and how we can leverage that to treat others

For millions of people living with HIV, a daily regimen of medications is a lifelong necessity. If they stop taking the drugs—commonly referred to as antiretroviral therapy—the virus usually rushes ...
Psychology Today

HIV and AIDS: Tracking a Sexually Transmitted Virus

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 ...
AOL

Forty years ago, AIDS was a death sentence. Not today, but HIV is still a health threat

It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease of the 1980s and 1990s is now affecting young people who were not even born when HIV first ...
News4JAX

Community gathers for First Coast AIDS Walk

Saturday morning, community members gathered at Phillip Randolph Park for the First Coast AIDS Walk, honoring lives lost to ...
Ghana News Agency on MSN

HIV/AIDS spread: Health consultant urges adolescents to stay away from unsafe sex

By Dennis Peprah, GNA Sunyani, (Bono), March 18, GNA – Dr Thomas Kyere, a Health Consultant at the Sunyani branch of the 21st Clinic, a facility specialized in sciatica and other health-related ...
Psychology Today

HIV and AIDS: Tracking a Sexually Transmitted Virus

AIDS was a mystery disease when first formally recognized in patients in the U.S. in 1981. Transmission through sexual contact was rapidly recognized, but the source was initially unknown. Just three ...
Commercial Appeal

Forty years ago, AIDS was a death sentence. Not today, but HIV is still a health threat

Lynn Norment, a columnist for The Commercial Appeal, is a former editor for Ebony Magazine. It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease ...