In this special briefing, Spotlight unpacks what we do and do not know about asymptomatic TB. Tuberculosis (TB) is a ...

A person develops latent TB when he or she contracts Mycobacterium tuberculosis yet his or her immune system manages to control the infection.

Imagine a game of chess where your opponent's king is in check. It cannot move, but the game is not over—the piece remains on the board. This is how the body might control HIV on its own: The virus ...

HIV exhausts the body's immune system by overactivating it, despite effective antiviral treatment. Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden have conducted cell studies showing that an existing ...

There has been a concerning increase in human immunodeficiency virus diagnoses in Eastern and Southeastern Idaho residents.

TWENTY-ONE patients, including a teenager, could be at risk of HIV and hepatitis, after undergoing procedures with unsterilised surgical tools at an NHS hospital. The operations and examinations ...

Although TB can be cured, it is still spreading in South Africa at alarming rates. One reason could be that some people with TB disease but without symptoms may unknowingly be passing on the bug. In ...

Aoife Commins shares her story of being diagnosed with HIV after her health slowly started deteriorating to the point it was ...