Introduction HIV is a unique sexually transmitted infection (STI) that is greatly affected by
other concomitant “classical” bacterial and viral STI s that cause genital ulcers and/or …

Sexually transmitted co-infections increase HIV infectiousness through local inflammatory
processes. The prevalence of STI among people living with HIV/AIDS has implications for …

Latency and ongoing replication have both been proposed to explain the drug-insensitive
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reservoir maintained during antiretroviral therapy …

Background Effective interventions to reduce HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa are
urgently needed. Mathematical modelling and the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) …

ABSTRACT A goal of HIV therapy is to sustain suppression of the plasma viral load below
the detection limits of clinical assays. However, widely followed treatment guidelines diverge …

Exosomes are membranous extracellular nanovesicles secreted by diverse cell types.
Exosomes from healthy human semen have been shown to inhibit HIV-1 replication and to …

A key goal of managing HIV in pregnancy and postpartum is to optimise a woman's own
health. Furthermore, one of the major successes in the management of individuals living …

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection occurs throughout the body and can
have dramatic physical effects, such as neurocognitive impairment in the central nervous …

Current efforts toward achieving a cure for HIV are focused on developing strategies to
eliminate latently infected CD4+ T cells, which represent the major barrier to virus …

Introduction: Lyme disease is a tickborne illness that generates controversy among medical
providers and researchers. One of the key topics of debate is the existence of persistent …