For more than a decade, doctors and researchers have announced that a handful of people around the world have been cured of ...

So far, there is no "magic bullet" to cure HIV for good, but scientists are making rapid progress.

More than 30 million people with HIV must take antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications daily to keep the virus under control ...

Commonly used in the treatment of bipolar disorder and other mood disorders, lithium could prove promising for inhibiting HIV, a research team from McGill University has found. A study published ...

Scientists have found a breakthrough in the search for a cure for HIV, after research uncovered a development “previously thought impossible”. HIV can ‘hide’ itself in white blood cells, meaning the ...

Benjamin K. Chen, MD, PhD, discussed the next steps after the results of his study in genetic tagging showed promise in targeting HIV cells. How do you envision gene therapy working with other forms ...

"Cure" was the fresh buzzword among researchers at the XIX International AIDS Conference. It was the focus of a two-day pre-conference workshop and a new initiative by the International AIDS Society ...

Medications to treat HIV are effective, but not curative. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins say they’re working on a new treatment – and it’s one already in use for cancer patients. They are very ...

In July 2024, we published a story with the headline: "One of the 7 people cured of HIV tells his story. Can his cure work for others." This summer, at the International AIDS Society conference, came ...

Researchers have taken a giant leap in the search for an HIV cure by discovering a way to identify the virus even as it is camouflaged among other cells. HIV spreads by invading and multiplying within ...