Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. The illness known as HIV/AIDS happens in three stages: acute HIV infection, chronic HIV infection, and AIDS. But the phrase “chronic HIV infection” isn’t simply the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – On Thursday, marks the forty-year anniversary of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. first encounter with another global disease, identified in parts of the country. Considered a death ...

HIV is perhaps one of the most stigmatized chronic illnesses, due to its emergence at the intersection of sex negativity, purity culture, anti-Blackness, anti-queerness, ableism—particularly ableist ...