Background: The prognosis of HIV infection dramatically improved after the introduction of triple antiretroviral therapy 25 years ago. Herein, we report the impact of further improvements in HIV management since then, ...

For two centuries, vaccines have been successful in the fight against viruses, triggering immune protection. Indeed, the elimination of smallpox, the only infectious disease eradicated to date, was made possible through ...

Despite being COVID-19 the global focus of attention nowadays, other pandemics caused by RNA viruses are ongoing. This is the case for AIDS. Roughly, 38 million people are, at present, living with HIV-1 infection worldwide ...

Vaccines and antivirals are the classical weapons deployed to contain, prevent, and treat life-threatening viral illnesses. Specifically, for SARS-CoV-2 infection, vaccines protect against severe COVID-19 disease manifestations ...

The battle against human viral infections has histori-cally relied on two medical strategies, namely vaccines to protect from contagion and antivirals to treat infected patients. In the absence of vaccines, antivirals have ...

On May 17, seven patients with monkeypox were reported in the United Kingdom (Mahase E. BMJ 2022). Since that time, more than 400 cases have been reported in 20 non-African countries, including Spain, Portugal, Italy, ...

The annual conference on retroviruses and opportunistic infections was held in Denver, CO, last February. Most sessions were attended by virtual attenders, due to restrictions forced by the COVID-19 surge caused by the ...

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Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is major cause of decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer. The advent of curative new antiviral therapies since year 2015 has dramatically improved the prognosis of HCV patients. ...

Background: Chronic viral hepatitis B, C, and D are the main causes of decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer worldwide. Newborn HBV vaccination was implemented more than 2 decades ago in most EU countries. Furthermore, ...