A study finds promising results on a new HIV prevention drug that's injected just twice a year. In the meantime, here's everything to know about HIV testing. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, ...

Suchandrima Bhowmik has written over 300 articles on various health conditions, medical news, and recent breakthroughs. Her work appears in several publications, including Medical News Today, ...

Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...

A milliliter of blood contains about 15 individual drops. For a person with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), each drop of blood could contain anywhere from fewer than 20 copies of the virus to more ...

As of the end of 2023, nearly 40 million people worldwide were living with HIV, including approximately 1.2 million in the United States. In the same year, about 630,000 people globally died from AIDS ...

Because of its high accuracy, laboratory-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing is the gold standard for infectious disease diagnostics. However, PCR technology requires highly trained staff ...