HIV & AIDS

A new technology that fits on a USB stick can be used to test for levels of HIV in people's blood, which could aid in treatment of the disease in developing countries.

Actress Alexis Arquette has died from complications related to AIDS, according to news reports, but how exactly, does someone die from the disease?

Prince Harry took an HIV test this week, with the goal of destigmatizing testing for the virus. But exactly who should get screened for HIV, and how often?

In the first documented case of its kind, a man taking an effective antiviral medication still contracted a drug-resistant strain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a new report finds.

A male adult film star in California who underwent regular HIV testing still ended up contracting the virus and infecting two other men before the disease was detected.

Charlie Sheen recently disclosed that he is HIV positive, but HIV infection isn't the death sentence it once was.

Think caterpillars are cute, fuzzy and harmless? Think again.

By tricking HIV into ejecting its genetic information far from any host cells, a new compound may one day help defeat the virus.

In a rare case, researchers report that a 22-year-old woman in Brazil who tested positive for HIV likely contracted the virus by sharing manicure instruments with an HIV-infected cousin.