Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't kill it. But new research is promising. HIV is "like a time bomb," said ...

This session examines the current state of progress toward a functional cure for HIV, drawing on advances in immunology, ...

Over the past three decades there have been amazing advances in treating and preventing HIV. It's now a manageable infection. A person with HIV who takes HIV medicine consistently, before their immune ...

Researchers say a newborn baby born with HIV has been functionally cured of the disease. Could it lead to a cure for HIV? At the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in ...

Benjamin K. Chen, MD, PhD, discussed the next steps after the results of his study in genetic tagging showed promise in targeting HIV cells. How do you envision gene therapy working with other forms ...

Researchers revealed on Tuesday that an American, described as a middle-aged woman of mixed race, has likely been cured of HIV after undergoing a new transplant procedure using donated umbilical cord ...

In July 2024, we published a story with the headline: "One of the 7 people cured of HIV tells his story. Can his cure work for others." This summer, at the International AIDS Society conference, came ...

Medical researchers dropped their microscopes on Sunday when a team of doctors from Mississippi revealed that an infant in their care was born with HIV and cured two years later. Dr. Hannah Gay, who ...