HIV

A deadly virus no one talks about — and the HIV drugs that might stop it

Around 10 million people globally live with the life-threatening virus HTLV-1. Yet it remains a poorly understood disease that currently…

7 months ago

Novel point-of-care technology delivers accurate HIV results in minutes

A team of Northwestern University scientists spanning disciplines have developed new technology that could lead to the creation of a…

11 months ago

Researchers develop method to identify dormant cells that carry HIV

Mount Sinai researchers have developed a method to uncover the hidden immune cells that harbor the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),…

12 months ago

New therapy may effectively control HIV in Uganda

A multi-national, multi-institutional study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators found little natural resistance to a new HIV therapy called…

1 year ago

Sub-Saharan Africa leads global HIV decline

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has published a new study in The Lancet HIV journal that revealed…

1 year ago

A two-dose schedule could make HIV vaccines more effective

One major reason why it has been difficult to develop an effective HIV vaccine is that the virus mutates very…

1 year ago

New drug shows promise in clearing HIV from brain

An experimental drug originally developed to treat cancer may help clear HIV from infected cells in the brain, according to…

2 years ago

Advancing toward a preventative HIV vaccine

A major challenge in developing a vaccine for HIV is that the virus mutates fast -- very fast. Although a…

2 years ago

GPS-like system shows promise as HIV vaccine strategy to elicit critical antibodies

A team led by the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) has developed a vaccine approach that works like a GPS,…

2 years ago

Scientists see an ultra-fast movement on surface of HIV virus

As the HIV virus glides up outside a human cell to dock and possibly inject its deadly cargo of genetic…

2 years ago