Misconceptions about HIV prevention drugs may lead to decline in condom use.
Head of Belinson Hospital's dermatology and venereal diseases department expresses concern over growing number of cases.
"The AIDS epidemic is still with us," said Prof. Itzchak Levy, director of the HIV/AIDS center at Sheba Medical Center.
Specific monoclonal antibodies suppressed the virus for months after the AIDS ‘cocktail’ of drugs was stopped.
The study suggests that restoring and improving gut health could be the key to slowing HIV progression to AIDS.
Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine conclude that specialized immune cells in the brain can harbor latent, but replication-capable HIV.
Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood instead of from donors increases the potential to cure the disease through stem cell transplants in people of all racial backgrounds.
The patient from Dusseldorf was confirmed to have been cured of HIV after being given a stem cell transplant, but this procedure is risky and is not a universal cure.
Russian mercenaries captured by Ukraine, many of whom are carriers of various diseases, are being refused treatment by Ukrainian doctors.
Gay and Bi men might not need to go without sex for a year to donate blood with future proposed policy
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