Given how mosquitoes bite multiple people in a short amount of time, it's understandable to wonder if these insects could spread HIV. The thought of contracting HIV from a mosquito bite can be ...

HIV can be transmitted through bodily fluids like blood, semen, and breast milk HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, attacks the body's immune system, making it harder to fight off infections. It can ...

The “enormous revelation” that drugs can be used to prevent catching HIV has benefitted millions and helped slash ...

Among adults, HIV is transmitted mainly by unprotected sex but also by unsterile hypodermic needles and transfusions of contaminated blood. Mother-child transmission can occur during pregnancy, birth, ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...