Despite semen being the main vector of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dissemination
worldwide, the origin of the virus in this bodily fluid remains unclear. It was recently shown …

More than half a million Americans became newly infected with human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) in the first decade of the new millennium. The domestic epidemic has had the …

HIV-1-affected couples' desire to have children and free sexual intercourses with the use of
pre-exposure prophylaxis for the negative partner has emerged as an alternative option to …

Objectives For individuals not on antiretroviral therapy, the risk of heterosexual transmission
of HIV appears negligible when blood plasma (BP) viral loads are< 1500 HIV‐1 RNA …

OBJECTIVE: To study sperm parameters in patients infected with human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV)-1 and to analyze mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in sperm according to the HIV …

The emergence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the 1980s drastically
changed the prospects of conceiving a child for the man or woman infected with the virus …

Background New strategies such as boosted-protease inhibitor (PI) monotherapy are being
investigated. However, a concern remains regarding the efficacy of this strategy in viral …

This study was designed to investigate the in vitro effects of didanosine, zidovudine,
saquinavir and indinavir, commonly used in highly active antiretroviral therapy, on human …

Until recently, only assisted reproduction was proposed to serodiscordant couples wishing
to conceive. Nevertheless, recent publications have proposed unprotected sexual …

Techniques for the quantification of HIV-1 load in semen include culture and nucleic acid
amplification techniques. The latter tend to be used in the reproductive, public health and …