HIV and AIDS Treatment Guidelines

the Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents released their latest guidelines for HIV and AIDS treatment. Every year, the panel assesses the current trends in HIV and AIDS treatment and new information gained from research and develops a set of guidelines for the use of HIV medications [...]

Treatments and drugs

When HIV was first identified in the early 1980s, there were few drugs to treat the virus and the opportunistic infections associated with it. Since then, a number of medications have been developed to treat both HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections. For many people, including children, these treatments have extended and improved their quality of life. [...]

Definition of AIDS and HIV Infection

AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS is a serious condition that weakens the body’s immune system, leaving it unable to fight off illness. AIDS is the last stage in a progression of diseases resulting from a viral infection known as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV or AIDS virus). The diseases include a number [...]