Patients newly infected with HIV are being diagnosed in greater numbers because they are showing up at hospitals with symptoms similar to infection with SARS-CoV-2, researchers reported at the 2020 ...

New research from a team in Chicago shows a significant increase in the number of patients with acute HIV infections who sought treatment in their emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The number of patients who presented with acute HIV infections at the University of Chicago's ...

Heterosexual intercourse during periods of acute HIV infection may account for a substantial amount of transmission of the virus, according to a study published in the May 15 issue of The Journal of ...

The acute phase of HIV infection encompasses the interval immediately following viral acquisition, characterised by rapid viral replication, high plasma viraemia and the absence of a mature antibody ...

HIV is a virus that attacks your immune system. If you don’t treat it, HIV typically goes through three stages. But if you keep the virus under control, you may live for decades without symptoms and ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that MAIT cells (mucosa-associated invariant T cells), part of the human immune system, respond with ...

Seroconversion is a general term for the time between exposure to a virus and when antibodies show up in your blood. Antibodies are proteins that help your body fight against viruses, bacteria, and ...

In high school health class, your teacher likely brought up HIV during sex-ed. They might have said something along the lines of, “HIV is a sexually transmitted disease that you don’t want to contract ...