The World Health Organization is now recommending that countries include an HIV drug newly approved for prevention, lenacapavir, as a tool in their efforts to fight HIV infections – especially for groups most at risk and in areas where the burden of HIV remains high.

The World Health Organization on Monday recommended Gilead's lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection, as a tool to prevent HIV infection. The recommendation, issued at the International AIDS Conference in Kigali,

Artificial intelligence chatbots could help with the introduction of a twice-yearly shot that can help prevent HIV, experts said at the International AIDS Society conference on HIV science in Rwanda on Monday.

While people living with HIV can lead virtually normal lives thanks to antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV persists in a latent state within cellular reservoirs that scientists do not know how to eliminate.

ViiV Healthcare, the HIV-focused joint venture majority owned by GSK , said on Monday it has expanded its licensing deal with the Medicines Patent Pool to allow generic production of its long-acting injectable HIV treatment cabotegravir.

A new study explores how healthcare providers can effectively implement Apretude for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among Black women.

ViiV Healthcare has announced steps to widen access to a sought-after HIV medicine in low- and middle-income countries, reflecting ongoing pressure to respond to criticism.

This story was originally published by The Institute for Public Service Reporting Memphis. Healthcare providers across Tennessee are scrambling to find new funding for HIV prevention following the loss of a critical federal grant.

This 2011 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control shows HIV virions. On Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, scientists are reporting the first use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR to try to cure a patient's HIV infection by providing blood cells that have been altered to resist the AIDS virus.

After being diagnosed with HIV in Delaware in 1987, six years after graduating from Shaler Area High School, Bart Rauluk was given a book with what was known about AIDS at the time and told to get ready to die.

A landmark breakthrough in HIV prevention — a scientific feat decades in the making — received final approval from the Food and Drug Administration last month. Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir is so effective that global health leaders had started to cautiously talk about the end of an epidemic that continues to kill more than 600,000 people each year.