A person who is immunocompromised is more susceptible to infections due to a weakened immune system.

The first symptoms of HIV are often similar to the flu, including fever, fatigue, and body aches. However, some people don't ...

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 ...

Benjamin Chen, MD, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses the implications of his new study involving genetically tagging immune cells with latent HIV. Yeah, my pleasure. HIV ...

Talk about bad blood. Health experts are sounding the alarm over a disturbing trend where drug users swap blood to score a ...

After decades of research, there is still no cure for the disease HIV causes–AIDS. Each year, HIV infects more than one million people worldwide, and a vaccine remains stubbornly out of reach. Hope, ...

Members of The Sidewalk Project were giving out water, hygiene bags, CBD Gummies and harm reduction supplies to the homeless in Skid Row on March 26. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) A growing ...

Dec. 8, 2005 — -- From the moment Eliza Jane Scovill came into the world on Dec. 3, 2001, she was strong and feisty -- much like her mom, Christine Maggiore. Maggiore describes Eliza Jane as ...

The Trump administration is potentially undoing decades of work to mitigate the HIV epidemic and holding up upcoming progress by slashing the country’s public health workforce, experts say. When ...

As CEO of Grindr, the largest social media app for gay and bisexual men, I see the strides we’ve made combating HIV every day. Nearly 15 million people use our app to connect monthly, for dates, ...

The withdrawal of aid related to addressing the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic provided by the US through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could lead to the loss of millions of ...