Antiretroviral drugs help prevent HIV from replicating in the body. There are 26 individual antiretroviral drugs and 22 ...

Individuals with HIV who were resistant to all four antiretroviral drug classes experienced higher mortality than those who were not resistant, a difference primarily due to lower CD4 cell counts.

There’s been a lot of grim news lately about HIV and AIDS: Rising infections among high-risk U.S. communities, continued risk behaviors, and plague-level infection rates across sub-Saharan Africa. In ...

Researchers at UVA Health have found that a class of HIV drugs called nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) may significantly reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Their ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly effective new HIV-prevention medication, Gilead Sciences reported Wednesday. In clinical trials, the drug nearly eliminated HIV’s spread among ...

Four men in King County have been diagnosed with a strain of HIV that is extremely hard to treat, and health officials are concerned it could spread further. At least two types of HIV drugs don’t work ...

UVA Health scientists are calling for clinical trials testing the potential of HIV drugs called NRTIs to prevent Alzheimer's disease after discovering that patients taking the drugs are substantially ...

For over a decade, taking a pill like Truvada every day has been the standard of care for HIV prevention efforts. In clinical trials, this type of preventive drug, called pre-exposure prophylaxis ...