FDA approves HIV prevention drug taken as twice-yearly injection
Clinical trials showed 99.9% of participants who received the drug, called Yeztugo from company Gilead Sciences, remained HIV negative.
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Clinical trials showed 99.9% of participants who received the drug, called Yeztugo from company Gilead Sciences, remained HIV negative.
"This is a setback of probably a decade for HIV vaccine research," one scientist said.
UNAIDS boss Winnie Byanyima says if U.S. foreign aid isn't restored, AIDS will "come back, and we'll see people die the way we saw them in the '90s."
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, provides billions in funding to organizations to combat HIV.
More than 40 years since the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, studies now show HIV cases nationwide are decreasing, but there is one group seeing a growing number of new HIV cases.
Millions today owe their lives to the work of the man who devoted his career to public health, but in recent years Dr. Anthony Fauci has been targeted by a partisan, anti-science spectrum of opponents.
The family of a man who died after being held in a California jail alleges in a lawsuit that he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two months.
The sidewalks of San Francisco's Castro District became the site of a sprawling memorial on World AIDS Day.
SF Pride grand marshal Paul Aguilar has been living with HIV since the late 80s. Now he's helping researchers working on a monthly injection that could be an HIV game-changer.
The decline in new HIV cases was driven by a slowdown in infections among young gay and bisexual men.
New blood donations rules will allow sexually active gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships to give in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration guidelines ease decades-old restrictions on blood donations put in place to protect the blood supply from HIV.
The 53-year-old known as the "Düsseldorf Patient" also had cancer and received a bone marrow transplant which replaced his cells with a donor's HIV-resistant stem cells.
Potential donors would be screened with a questionnaire that evaluates their individual risks for HIV based on sexual behavior, recent partners and other factors.
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday declared unconstitutional an Affordable Care Act requirement that insurers and employers offer plans that cover HIV-prevention drugs for free, saying it violates the religious freedom of a Christian-owned company.
U.S. health officials are gathering data on exactly how much COVID-19 affected HIV infections and deaths, including how well testing, prevention, and treatment kept up in the pandemic.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 33 states including California have HIV criminal laws, generally making it a crime to expose others to HIV or fail to disclose HIV-positive status.
In an interview Tuesday on NBC's "Today," the 50-year-old Sheen said he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
In the world, 35 million people are living with HIV or AIDS. Most take a myriad of drugs to suppress the disease from wreaking havoc on their immune system. Loreen Willenberg is one of those 35 million, but in the 23 years since she was diagnosed, she takes no drugs, has no symptoms, and has never been sick.
The first person believed to have been cured of AIDS says reports he still has the HIV virus are false.
Sunday marks 30 years since the first AIDS cases were reported in the United States. And this anniversary brings fresh hope for something many had come to think was impossible: finding a cure.
A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use.
