known as primary infection (Stage 1), clinical latency (Stage 2), and AIDS (Stage 3). During primary infection, the symptoms are caused by the virus itself, leading to fever, fatigue, and swollen ...

HIV is a virus. It may cause AIDS after you’ve been infected for several years and it’s weakened your immune system. HIV doesn’t affect everyone the same way. Some people notice signs soon ...

Of the roughly 1.2 million people living with HIV ... injections once per month or every other month. AIDS is the most advanced stage of HIV infection. It occurs when the virus severely ...

HIV/AIDS will not go away. No one is arguing that it will. But the number of new infections can be reduced such that we can move past the crisis stage of the epidemic. In the U.S., for example ...