A South African child, believed to have been infected with HIV around the time of birth, has remained free of the virus for 8 1/2 years after early treatment — renewing hope among scientists...
A French teenager who was infected with HIV at birth has lived in good health an astonishing 12 years since she last took antiretroviral drugs, researchers say. The case — the longest-known...
Hope and commitment motivate Deborah Persaud. An infectious disease expert, she’s among researchers worldwide who are “on a mission to find a cure for AIDS,” she says. “But...
Virus has returned in a child in Mississippi thought to have been cured of an HIV infection, dashing hopes that scientists had found a strategy that would have widespread impact. After the girl...
About 50,000 new HIV infections hit Americans every year. More than a million Americans live with HIV, HIV/AIDS. Globally, that number is 35 million. In the last week, striking good...
With a nip here and a tuck there, a DNA-cutting mechanism that bacteria use to protect themselves from viruses became one of the hottest topics in biomedical research in 2013. And a young...
These three women are responsible for orchestrating an incredible breakthrough: functionally curing a newborn of AIDS. By giving the infant, who contracted HIV from its mother, anti-HIV drugs within...