Kaposi’s sarcoma. This is a type of skin cancer. It looks like dark spots that may be brown, purple, or red. It usually happens when someone has AIDS. Drugs that treat HIV and related infections ...

Each class of drug attacks HIV at a different stage of the HIV lifecycle. There are six main types (‘classes’) of antiretroviral drugs. Different classes work at different stages of the HIV lifecycle ...

HIV is incredibly difficult to treat because of the virus’ ability to integrate its genome into the host’s DNA. It is also known to infect different types of cells and tissues in the body ...

Many diagnostic tests for HIV detect the presence of antibodies to HIV in blood. In HIV, different strains which can be grouped according to their genes. HIV-1 is classified into three ‘groups,’ M, N, ...

Chemically synthesized VIRIP inhibited PBMC infection by a broad range of HIV strains, including variants that are resistant to current antiretroviral drugs, with similar potency to isolated VIRIP ...

An HIV vaccine that has the potential to protect people around the world from the virus has shown promising results. The treatment, which aims to provide immunity against various strains of the ...

project reported their detection of the new variant of subtype-B HIV-1, the most common type of HIV, that appears to be even more damaging to a person's health. Identified as the "VB variant," the ...

This means that they focused on parts of the virus genome that stay the same across all known HIV strains and achieved a cure ...

The new sub-type is the first strain to be identified since guidelines for classifying new HIV strains were first established in 2000. HIV has a multitude of different sub-types and, like other ...

Understanding the basis for cellular differences in HIV replication might teach us new ways to protect the immune system from highly pathogenic strains of HIV-1 (pages 712–718). Figure 1 ...