Because of this, an infected individual can unwittingly transmit it to others during oral, vaginal, or anal sex. Studies have ...

A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant. But the man, who has been virus-free for ...

Research suggests that sickle cell anemia may offer some protection against HIV and may also slow HIV progression.

A third group would get 250 million cells in five lymph nodes—meaning they could have five mini livers growing inside them. The effects of the therapy won’t be immediate.

The University of Amsterdam presents early HIV research at a medical conference, emphasising it's a "proof of concept," not a cure.

Although the signs and symptoms of HIV are much the same between sexes, there are several specific to men that can occur during the early and later stages.

Vaginal sex is the second most likely cause of HIV and one in which risk can vary from as much as 1 in 2,500 exposures to as little as 1 in 50.

A patient with a 33-year history of HIV-1 infection who underwent stem-cell transplantation for the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia remained HIV-1 free nearly 5 years later.

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Cells are the building blocks that form all the tissues and organs of the body — and now, scientists have an estimate of just how many individual cells the human body contains.

The woman, treated with virus-resistant stem cells from umbilical cord blood, is one of only a handful of people experts think have been cured of HIV.