Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV/AIDS is spread through sexual contact with an infected person, sharing needles with an infected ...
HIV has long been thought of as a disease that primarily impacts gay men. That's wrongheaded.
Development assistance for health has fallen back toward 2010 levels, disproportionately disrupting community-based HIV services and projecting increased infections and AIDS-related deaths.
For decades, Black HIV activists have filled the gaps left by public systems. Today, that carefully built infrastructure hangs in the balance.