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What Is AIDS?

A chronic and potentially life-threatening disease caused by HIV infection Medically reviewed by Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the most advanced stage of human ...
World AIDS Day is marked every year on 1 December. It began in 1988 and is recognised worldwide by the World Health Organization (WHO). The day remembers people lost to AIDS (acquired ...
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 streets ...
According to the latest estimates, more than 100 AIDS cases are now being reported in Kerala every month.
In July 1985, more than 4,000 people gathered in their walking shoes at California’s Paramount Studios, bound by a cause that until then had largely existed in the shadows. Their grassroots motivation ...
Coalition of charities and MPs have signed a letter from Geordie Greig, editor-in-chief of The Independent, appealing to the ...
A daily preventive pill can be invaluable for people at risk for HIV. But some doctors don't know much about prescribing them. And billing headaches are common. Here's how to overcome those hurdles.
In a person living with HIV, proviruses—strands of HIV DNA—are typically integrated into the T cell genome and become a ...
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 ...