According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), since the start of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic in 1981, nearly 600,000 people have died of the infection in the United States. The virus causes...
Though HIV is an incurable disease, several medications slow its progression. Many of these medications work by preventing the HIV virus from producing more copies of itself. Several classes of HIV antiretroviral medications have been approved by...
Human immune deficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) continues to pose a challenge for treatment. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD), there are more than 1...
The human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. The virus is transmitted primarily through sexual contact---vaginal, oral or anal---but it also may spread via shared syringe needles...
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a disease in which the patient's immune system has been destroyed by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Certain medications have proven highly effective in fighting HIV; this AIDS medication...
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a type of disease in which the immune system is severely weakened. Sometimes, this can lead to an increased prevalence of infections. MedlinePlus says that HIV signs include fatigue, diarrhea, a fever, swollen...
Antivirals are drugs used to treat or prevent viral infections. Viruses cause major killer diseases around the world, accounting for huge numbers of deaths every year from diseases like the flu, HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis. They are also causally...
Infection with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, causes AIDS, a condition in which the immune system becomes weakened, leaving patients vulnerable to life-threatening opportunistic infections. HIV is a retrovirus composed of a genome made from...
Some people whose urine tests positive for tetrohydrocannabinol--THC--are shocked to be told they failed the drug test for marijuana, which they've never used. According to pharmacologist Karen E. Moeller and colleagues in their 2008 article for...
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, commonly known as AIDS, is a life-threatening disease in which the immune system slowly breaks down over time. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. As of 2008, approximately 33.4 million...
According to AIDS.gov, all HIV medications or antiviral drugs produce side effects. The Well Project notes that the side effects may range from the moderate to the extreme. Moreover, the most common side effects occur within the first six weeks of...
According to the March of Dimes, more than 90 percent of the approximately 9,000 U.S. children diagnosed with AIDS since 1985 contracted the virus from their mother during pregnancy or birth. Preventative measures can greatly reduce a pregnant...
