Darwin Tenoria first learned about HIV when he was on his deathbed. He was 27 and weighed just 70 pounds. "I died for two minutes and I was revived in the hospital," he remembers. When he woke up, he ...
Health experts are sounding the alarm over a disturbing trend where drug users swap blood to score a secondhand high. Called “bluetoothing,” the gruesome movement is fueling a wave of new HIV ...
You may have heard about Descovy (des-ko'-vee), a medicine approved by the FDA in 2015. Descovy is approved to treat HIV. It can also help prevent people from getting HIV through sex. People with HIV ...
In the 1980s, a person diagnosed with HIV faced a frightening prognosis: no cure, no treatment — and very little hope. Four decades later, many people with HIV can live longer, healthier lives by ...
A generation has passed since the world saw the peak in AIDS-related deaths. Those deaths -- agonizing, from diseases or infections the body might otherwise fight off -- sent loved ones into the ...
HIVAN is a severe kind of kidney disease that can affect people living with HIV. It’s associated with a high viral load and low CD4 count and can rapidly lead to kidney failure. Treatment involves ...
The pace of new HIV infections in the U.S. continued to slow in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new annual report Tuesday, suggesting trends that had already begun to ...
Called “bluetoothing,” the gruesome movement is fueling a wave of new HIV infections in hotspots around the globe, including Fiji and South Africa. Doctors are warning that the surge in cases is just ...