It is therefore crucial to define accurately the median survival time and natural history of HIV-1 infection in Africa, so that health planners and policy makers can devise effective strategies ...

Although it is believed that the course of HIV-1 disease is similar between ... locus on chromosome X could be of relevance for the natural history of HIV infection. The relevance of this SNP ...

The natural history of HIV infection usually begins within weeks of a sexual or percutaneous exposure to the genital secretions or blood of an infected individual. The diagnosis of primary or ...

It would be another two years before French researchers would identify a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS, or acquired ...

History of HIV The form of HIV that causes the vast majority of infections in humans is thought to have originated from a related chimpanzee virus called simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV.

The protective benefit of ART against viral blips was observed among patients who initiated treatment up to 2 years after HIV acquisition.

A study on almost 4000 people of African descent has identified a gene that acts as natural defense ... to opportunistic infections and cancer, and can develop acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the ...

HIV has an "early and substantial" impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection ...

Most descriptions of the stages of HIV infection describe the natural history of HIV, in other words how, over time, the disease progresses in people who are not taking HIV treatment. They show how ...