For HIV, Treatment is Prevention
1-30-2019People living with HIV who take HIV medicine every day as prescribed and keep an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting …
Francis S. Collins
Global Effort to End AIDS Would Save Millions of Lives
6-8-2016Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell/NIAIDAlmost 37 million people around the world are now infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), th…
NIH Statement on World AIDS Day 2015: Follow the Science to Fast-Track the End of AIDS
11-30-2015When the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were reported in 1981, scientists and physicians did not know the cause and had no therapies to treat th…
Statement on NIH Efforts to Focus Research to End the AIDS Pandemic
8-12-2015Extraordinary progress has been made in HIV/AIDS research over the last 34 years, transforming what was once a terrifying and almost inevitably fatal disease in…
NIH Statement on World AIDS Day 2014
12-1-2014Remarkable progress has been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS since the first annual World AIDS Day was commemorated 26 years ago. Yet, we are still far from …
NIH Statement on World AIDS Day 2013
11-27-2013In the 25 years that have passed since the first annual commemoration of World AIDS Day, extraordinary scientific progress has been made in the fight against HI…