How is HIV passed from one person to another?

HIV transmission can occur when blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, vaginal fluid, or breast milk from an infected person enters the body of an uninfected person. These are the most common ways that HIV is transmitted from one person to another: By having sex (anal, vaginal, or oral) with an HIV-infected person By sharing needles or [...]

273 New Possible Targets for HIV Drugs

Hundreds of Human Proteins Essential to HIV Survival Discovered   Scientists have discovered 273 new human proteins that, if blocked, keep the AIDS virus from doing its dirty work. Only 36 of these proteins were previously known to interact with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The finding is thus a mind-boggling expansion of what [...]