HIV/AIDS

Although prenatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission has declined by 90% since the early 1990s, the need for studies focusing are pregnant women with HIV are very much needed.

Men over the age of 50 who have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and who are adherent to an antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen are at risk for cognitive decline, according to the results of a recent study.

The news that physicians in Princeton, NJ were confronting an outbreak of hepatitis C in young people who were also using heroin shocked this affluent, mostly white community. Ronald Nahass, MD, talks about how it occurred and what needs to happen next.

A new set of guidelines stresses the importance of treating the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) at the same time in co-infected patients.

Untreated pregnant women with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will transmit the infection to their child up to 45% of the time. But a new anti-HIV medication could lower that percentage.

The treatment of HIV has improved by leaps and bounds since its first diagnosis but there is still much more work to be done.

In June of 2016 when nearly 50 people were killed in a shooting at an Orlando night club it brought the LGBT community to the forefront of the headlines. Even for people not at the club it raised concerns that they shared as an indirect affect of the tragic events.

Patients in general require individualized care, but this is especially important in certain patient populations like the LGBT community where they have different concerns from others in a variety of ways.

Patients of all ages at risk of contracting HIV can benefit from PrEP, including women according to recent studies.

Pre Exposure Prophylaxis, otherwise known as PrEP is a medication designed to help at risk patients avoid contracting HIV. While there are many potential benefits to this treatment it is not as widely available as some on the medical community might like.

in December 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed a 30-year blood donation policy – but now, it may go back.

It was back in April that researchers from Georgetown University reported the first case of Alzheimer’s disease in a person living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Now the case report will be presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2016 in Toronto, Canada on July 27.

Researchers have been examining the possibility of reducing the frequency of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and with recent positive results, it could only be a matter of time before that becomes a reality.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Health Care and School of Medicine are describing results from a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) study as groundbreaking.

Study results show that newly initiated combined antiretroviral therapy (ART) in treatment-naïve patients with HIV appears to not effectively prevent the progression of significant arterial inflammation.

If physicians and patients follow PrEP prescription guidelines, it’s predicted to cut new HIV infections by one-third within 10 years.

Men who have sex with men are at a higher risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). But going directly to the source can amp up testing.

Emory University School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine has received a $375,000 grant to help train first responders, and workers whose jobs may expose them to infectious diseases, in ways to protect themselves and prevent the spread of disease.

Even financial incentives over $1,000 haven't helped substance users to take better care of their HIV.

Male circumcision rates are on the decline in the United States, but combined with antiretroviral therapy (ART), it prevents new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections.

Condoms help prevent the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); however, a new study found that they aren’t necessary when the infected person is on antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Although there has been progress made in preventing and treating the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), rates continue to be disproportionally high in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.

“The story of HIV up to its arrival in the US is already known. What happened after that, however, has been unclear. We wanted to see how HIV spread in the Western world,” co-lead author Gkikas Magiorkinis, MD, Msc, PhD, Path, of the University of Oxford said in a news release.

Scientists may be one step closer to designing a vaccine that could protect people from the human immunodeficiency virus.

A lawsuit has been filed against the owners of a McDonald’s restaurant in Arkansas for allegedly firing a male employee because he has the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

While patients needing heart donations still drastically outnumbers the available organs for transplants recent changes in guidelines for transplantation have made the procedure available for an even wider patient population.

Research involving infants exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) offers new insight into naturally produced antibodies.

“Loyola University Chicago scientists have solved a mystery that has long baffled HIV researchers,†a statement from the school announced.

Although the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) isn’t a death sentence like it was once considered, disease-related infections can be life-threatening.

Neurologic abnormalities are apparent just days after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, according to a new study published in Neurology.