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The year 2015 saw an estimated 760,000 deaths due to HIV/AIDS, which has dropped from a million in 2010. (Photo: AP)

FDA approves first two-drug HIV regimen in US

The one-pill, once-a-day combination provides people living with HIV the option to reduce the number of...

22 Nov 2017 2:10 AM

HIV excels at evading the immune system by hiding out in certain immune cells. (Photo: Pixabay)

Novel antibody suppresses HIV in monkeys: study

The findings may inform strategies that attempt to achieve sustained, drug-free viral remission in people living with...

5 March 2018 1:14 PM

The HIV virus can hide in cells in an inactivated state, meaning it isnt actively replicating. (Photo: AP)

Genetic switch may lead to HIV cure, says study

People with HIV virus can live normal lives with exceedingly low or even undetectable viral loads thanks due to...

7 Dec 2018 8:48 AM

HIV excels at evading the immune system by hiding out in certain immune cells. (Photo: Pixabay)

Is a cure for HIV inching closer? Scientists discover new possibility

Team creates neutralising antibody, effective not only against all genetically divergent global HIV-1 strains, but also...

8 May 2018 7:58 AM

The MDACS has informed all blood banks in the city that all blood donors who have tested positive for HIV have to regularly visit these centres for further treatment.

FDA approves two new HIV drugs from Merck

The drugs have been approved to treat adults with the most common strain of the virus, HIV-1.

1 Sept 2018 5:40 AM

The study used data for 88,504 people with HIV who started an-tiretroviral treatment between 1996 and 2010 from 18 European and North American studies. (Photo: AP)

Latest research ups HIV life expectancy

WHO now recommends antiretroviral therapy to be given as soon as possible after diagnosis to all people with HIV.

15 May 2017 8:46 PM

HIV infected cell (Photo: Pixabay)

Now a nasal spray to fight HIV

Study sees virus spreading through brain, suggests creating nose spray to combat it

20 Jun 2017 1:38 PM