The Johns Hopkins team that conducted the new study had previously shown that the molecule of interest, an “antisense ...

Is the cost of research aimed at curing HIV worth it, when HIV can be effectively managed and prevented by existing drugs?

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...

There are two ways that HIV patients’ bodies can keep the virus under control after they stop antiretroviral therapy, a new ...

Franke says that at the time he heard about the "Berlin patient" Timothy Brown, who was also freed of HIV after a stem cell ...

The Wistar Institute has launched its HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center with new lab space on Market Street and a plan to ...

A new credit card-sized tuberculosis (TB) test, requiring no electricity, could revolutionize detection in HIV hotspots by ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV-1), the microbial culprit behind oral herpes, infects up to 67 percent of adults under 50 worldwide, although most cases are asymptomatic. Like all viruses, HSV-1 requires a ...

Africa Check has debunked viral social media claims about an HIV “cure”, clarifying that the breakthrough is promising, but ...

HIV remains incurable but manageable. Johns Hopkins found a way to silence it long-term using a molecule from the virus ...

There is still no cure or effective vaccine for HIV, but scientists have opened up new possibilities in HIV treatment and ...