Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more vulnerable to diseases and infections. Once inside human cells ...

HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and destroying white blood cells called T-cells. If left untreated, HIV causes AIDS – a life-threatening syndrome resulting from the ...

Scientists discovered that repetitive HIV vaccinations can lead the body to produce antibodies targeting the immune complexes ...

HIV could be history, as scientists have discovered a potential cure that eliminates the disease from infected cells. At ...

Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby ...

Since those fateful days, almost 90 million people around the world have been infected with HIV, and more than 40 million ...

A Hong Kong biotech company said its therapeutic HIV vaccine showed ... according to the firm. T cells, a type of white blood cells, attack and kill infected cells. Immuno Cure said it plans ...

AIDS is the advanced stage of HIV infection when the number of CD4 cells or helper T cells or T lymphocytes, falls below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood (200 cells/mm3) or they develop one ...

Repetitive HIV vaccinations can lead the body to produce antibodies targeting the immune complexes already bound to the virus ...