A Canadian flight attendant had been blamed by media for years for bringing HIV to the U.S. A new study proves that's impossible. The virus that took hold came from Haiti in the early 1970s.

HIV-2, which infects people located primarily in West Africa, has been traced to a virus found in the sooty mangabey monkey, which lives in a coastal range in West Africa. HOOPER'S THEORY ...

A new book tracks the emergence of the HIV virus out of a remote part of Cameroon to what is now Kinshasa in the former Belgian Congo. "Tinderbox: ...

HIV, with nine genes, can kill us, with our roughly 20,000 genes and 40 trillion cells. Although we now have good medications to both treat and prevent HIV, the effects of that pandemic still ...

The HIV virus from Patient Zero, a man accused of starting the U.S. epidemic, actually came from a later branch of the tree (green), ... Later, in the book And the Band Played On, ...

These summaries of great HIV history books will help you see the epidemic (and the world) in new ways. By Daniel Villarreal Friday, December 1, 2023 · Updated on December 4, 2023 ...

Book: Colonialism in Africa Aided HIV Spread. By. Washington Post. Published February 27, 2012. ... that a strain of virus called HIV-1 group M first appeared.

Next week's program on HIV and AIDS in the black community has local and global implications. First, the program is part of the Campus Community Book Project, which this year is exploring racism and ...

HIV evolves to escape recognition by these particular HLA proteins, but the virus becomes crippled by those changes. It’s no longer able to replicate as efficiently as it did before.

In a first, a person’s immune system fought HIV — and won. Analysis of 1.5 billion cells from this rare case found no trace of the virus ...

Mosquitoes are carriers of various viruses from malaria to dengue. But mosquitoes can not transmit HIV. This article explores why mosquitoes are unable to transmit HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.