The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain. While symptoms can now be better managed with lifelong treatment, there is ...

I see that ViroLogic now offers information on the replicative capacity of patient virus, alongside information on its genotypic and phenotypic resistance profile. How should we use this information ...

On the left is integrase in its “intasome” structure of four identical four-part complexes (pink) that connect to create one 16-part complex that locks around viral DNA (blue). On the right is ...

CD8 T lymphocytes from immunologically stable HIV-1-infected secrete a soluble factor — termed CAF —, which suppresses HIV-1 replication, but the exact identity of CAF has been unclear. In September ...

For the first time since HIV was identified, early human trials are starting to show what long‑imagined “drug‑free control” of the virus might look like in practice. Instead of chasing a total ...

Researchers at Université de Montréal's affiliated hospital research center, the CRCHUM, say the discovery could help lessen and even eliminate viral loads in people undergoing antiretroviral therapy.

Children born with HIV and treated early with antiretroviral therapy (ART) continued to show elevated immune markers in adolescence, based on data presented at the International AIDS Society ...

Pseudoscience has recently re-emerged in the U.S. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: HIV is neither the cause nor the sole cause of AIDS. This nonsense has been ...