HIV and AIDS are related, but they are not the same thing. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a sexually transmitted virus that causes illness by gradually breaking down a person's immune system ...

Yeah, so I think that is a big question that comes up, especially when people first received their diagnosis of HIV and they come to their first visit. A lot of them are very distraught and I think ...

Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] When I think about HIV and AIDS, the public figures I ...

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 this Conversations feature, we spoke to Prof. Robert Garofalo and Christopher, who both live with HIV but received their diagnoses over a decade apart. We discuss their experiences, how care for ...