Clinical

Doctors know that certain groups of people have higher rates of HIV. In the United States, for example, people of transgender experience (also called trans or transgender people) are much...

A good balance of gut bacteria is important for overall health. Having too much bacteria in the wrong place can lead to health problems. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) occurs...

About 1 in every 7 people with HIV do not know they have it. If someone has HIV, it is very important to start medication therapy. It is also important...

After reaching its height in the mid-1980s, the overall number of new HIV transmissions has dropped in the United States. Today, people with HIV who get treatment are healthier and...

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a combination of drugs used to treat HIV. The goal of ART is to lower the viral load or amount of HIV, in someone with the...

Public health officials are using genetic data collected from people living with HIV in a way that has advocates concerned.1,2 Molecular HIV surveillance is a new use of health data...

Health experts think around 1 to 2 million people worldwide have HIV-2. But the numbers are likely higher. Doctors and scientists group HIV into 2 subtypes: HIV-1 and HIV-2.1 The...

A key treatment for HIV is antiretroviral therapy or ART. ART involves taking a mix of medicines every day. It works by keeping down the levels of the virus that...

Taking medicine to treat HIV can mean better health. It also helps keep the illness in check.1 As doctors and scientists continue to learn more about HIV medication, they have...

Currently there is no cure for HIV, but with treatment, it can be well controlled. Through treatment, HIV can become undetectable. People with HIV should start treatment as soon as...

Long-lasting, or chronic, pain is common in those living and aging with HIV. People can live longer with HIV if they take antiretroviral therapy (ART). But many people experience chronic...

Lipodystrophy is a side effect of some drugs used to treat people living with HIV. These drugs are older medicines that are rarely used in the United States today.1,2 Lipodystrophy...

In 2022, the human monkeypox virus spread to countries that normally do not have the disease. Monkeypox is a worldwide public health concern for everyone. It is a virus that...

HIV first started spreading widely in the United States in the 1980s. This means that some of the first people to work with HIV have been in the field for...

HIV is a manageable chronic condition. This means it never goes away, but there are treatments to manage symptoms and complications. HIV treatment is called antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART requires...

There’s a new PrEP medicine available, and it’s not a pill you must take every day! Cabotegravir (brand name Apretude, also known as CAB) is given as an injection every...

Results from our 2022 Annual HIV In America showed 22 percent of survey takers living with HIV experienced insomnia. Because sleep is an important part of overall health, people are...

You may have seen headlines recently about a cancer drug that may help cure HIV. This drug is called pembrolizumab (brand name Keytruda®). Let’s look at what we know so...

In Treatment as Prevention (TasP), Part 1, I reviewed the science that allows us to believe in U=U, or Undetectable = Untransmittable. Why don’t more people know about it, or...

“Treating HIV is among the most effective ways to prevent transmission.” 1 It is now accepted science that if a person living with HIV has an undetectable viral load, they...