The test stick is swabbed along the upper and lower gum once and placed into the test tube for 20 minutes before reading the results. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...

The ability to diagnose an acute HIV-1 infection before there are detectable antibodies to HIV 1/2 is critical to making an early diagnosis and getting the individual into treatment. Approximately ...

Since 2013, Dr. Leo Stamatatos has been developing a different kind of HIV vaccine intended to train a person’s immune system to mount a powerful antibody response against the virus that causes AIDS.

I had HIV exposure with someone who is confirmed as HIV positive (he admitted it when I confronted him). For a different reason, I was administered a three-day dexamethasone injection of high dosages.

If you’re sexually active, regular testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and infections (STIs) is crucial to protect your health and the health of your partners. While you can get tested at ...

Being out of care doesn’t have to be permanent, and many people can restart HIV treatment. The sooner PWH restart treatment, ...

A multinational team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators developed a test that will help measure the persistence of HIV in people affected by viral strains found predominantly in Africa—a ...

Faith, 23, is on the verge of despair after being unable to check her HIV viral load for the second time this year. “Since they drew blood to test the viral load in January, the next time I was to be ...

What if the presence of a well-known but misunderstood viral protein explains why some people living with HIV (PLWH) never ...