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Women with HIV most often die from preventable, trauma-related conditions like substance use and mental illness—not the virus itself. Yet these leading causes are largely missing from official death ...

A new study shows virus-like particle can effectively 'shock and kill' latent HIV reservoir in those living with chronic HIV. By 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Fund and UNAIDS ...

For decades, HIV has been treated as a lifelong condition. Medicines can control it well, but they rarely eliminate it. Now, a case is shifting that belief. A 63-year-old man has remained free of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. A twice-yearly injection of a drug known as lenacapavir offered ...

Though Gilead Sciences made waves last June with a landmark FDA approval for its twice-yearly HIV preventive Yeztugo (lenacapavir), the first-in-class drug had previously been used as a long-acting ...

Gilead Sciences and Merck said on Tuesday their experimental once-weekly HIV pill kept the virus suppressed in two late-stage trials, ​supporting regulatory filings for what could become the first ...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is the cause of AIDS, is a master of deception, using just nine genes to hijack the complex cellular machinery of the human body. Yet, even after decades ...