The surge of heroin use and cases of subsequent Hepatitis C infection in central Ohio has alarmed state health officials.
A group of scientists, led by Johnson&Johnson, has discovered a two-step vaccination that can help prevent human immunodeficiency virus.
WHO commends Cuba for eliminating the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother-to-child.
A CDC report has found that 1 in 8 Americans who are positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are not aware that they are infected.
Researchers studying the human immunodeficiency virus, otherwise known as HIV, have discovered a new strategy to starve the virus by blocking the pipeline that provides the sugar and nutrients it needs to survive.
Scientists may have found a way to sabotage that ultimate saboteur, HIV. The crafty virus, which invades a healthy immune cell, replicates itself, then moves on to infect others, has been a challenge to combat, mainly because it has evolved into such an efficient virus. So researchers are taking a more direct approach - they're stopping the virus through simple starvation.
Officials report 84 confirmed and five preliminary positive cases of HIV in south-eastern Indiana
The gene editing technique involves altering the gene of blood-producing stem cells of patients infected with HIV by mutating CCR5, a protein present on the surface of these cells.
