• COVID Boosters Effective, but Not for Long
    Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    Dr F. Perry Wilson explains a unique study design that helps answer questions about the effectiveness of COVID booster vaccines. Medscape
  • Researchers use 'natural' system to identify proteins most useful for developing an effective HIV vaccine
    Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Since it was identified in 1984 as the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has infected more than 80 million people and been responsible for some 40 million deaths worldwide,...
  • Viral Suppression After DTG ART and Isoniazid-Rifapentine
    Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    Can adults with HIV effectively achieve viral suppression with the addition of isoniazid-rifapentine to a dolutegravir-based ART regimen? AIDS
  • Disparities in HIV Continuum of Care in Pediatrics
    Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    What factors contribute to the disparities that exist in the pediatric HIV care cascade and how can it be improved? HIV Medicine
  • Real-World Data on ICI in Patients With HIV and Cancer
    Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) were active and showed similar safety in patients with HIV and cancer to that seen in matched controls. Medscape Medical News
  • Real-world data confirm the efficacy of dolutegravir-based dual therapy
    Monday, May 29, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Over six years’ worth of real-world data gathered from people with HIV switching to dolutegravir-based two-drug regimens confirm efficacy comparable to three-drug regimens, aligning with previous findings from clinical trials. Dr Conor...
  • African countries are making the transition from donor-funded HIV programmes to government-led initiatives
    Monday, May 29, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    "We, as Africans, are the agenda and have the capacity to lead the HIV response. We need to create our own funding bill. Africans and its leaders have a role to play in conceptualising ideas and solutions," Yvette Raphael from the...
  • Social support for children living with HIV is a key determinant of treatment success, Senegal study shows
    Monday, May 29, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    A range of individual and collective factors contribute to HIV treatment success or failure among children and adolescents in Senegal, Dr Bernard Taverne at the University of Montpellier and colleagues report in Social Science &...
  • Age and CD4 count have the greatest influence on life expectancy in the modern HIV treatment era
    Monday, May 29, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    A study published in this month’s Lancet HIV claims to have produced one of the most detailed analyses of life expectancy among people living with HIV in high-income countries in the modern treatment era. It found that for people on...
  • Research group releases new white paper on molecular HIV epidemiology
    Friday, May 26, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    The Dennis Research Group in the School of Medicine has released a new white paper titled, "Revitalizing Community Engagement in the Public Health Use of Molecular HIV Epidemiology."
  • States Move To Curb Prior Authorization Requirements
    Friday, May 26, 2023 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    Doctors and patients in several states would get some relief from burdensome prior authorization requirements if reform legislation becomes law. Medscape Medical News
  • Monkey model offers clues for potential widespread HIV cure in people
    Thursday, May 25, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    New animal research is helping explain why at least five people have become HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant. The study's insights may bring scientists closer to developing what they hope will become a widespread cure for...
  • First-in-human nanoparticle HIV vaccine induces broad and publicly targeted helper T cell responses
    Thursday, May 25, 2023 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, IAVI and other collaborating institutions have characterized robust T-cell responses in volunteers participating in the IAVI G001 Phase...
  • Researchers identify strong T-cell response in first-in-human nanoparticle HIV vaccine
    Wednesday, May 24, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, IAVI and other collaborating institutions have characterized robust T-cell responses in volunteers participating in the IAVI G001 Phase...
  • Virtual village can empower vulnerable groups of people
    Wednesday, May 24, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    New psychosocial stressors and widespread lifestyle changes resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing to depression, isolation, and anxiety. Many studies have explored the impact of the pandemic on the general population's mental...
  • Doc Accused of Impairment Wins $3.7M for Unproven Complaint
    Wednesday, May 24, 2023 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    A jury decided in favor of a family doctor who says his life was upended after an unproven impairment allegation was mishandled by a Kentucky hospital. Read how the case affected his career. Medscape Medical News
  • Ketamine, Pain, and Depression: A Special Connection
    Wednesday, May 24, 2023 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    Ketamine may be a potent analgesic, but its effects on chronic pain may have more to do with its antidepressant effects, according to a recent study. F. Perry Wilson comments. Medscape
  • Dear Colleague: CDC Releases New HIV Surveillance Reports
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from CDC HIV/AIDS Prevention Resources
    CDC's Division of HIV Prevention released three new HIV surveillance reports.
  • HIV infections continue to decline among young Americans
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    HIV infection numbers in the United States are down, public health officials announced Tuesday.
  • Diagnoses of HIV infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2021
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from CDC HIV/AIDS Prevention Resources
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects, analyzes, and disseminates surveillance data on HIV infection; these data are one of the nation's primary sources of information on HIV in the United States. The annual...
  • Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States, 2017-2021
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from CDC HIV/AIDS Prevention Resources
    This HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report provides estimates of HIV incidence, prevalence, and knowledge of HIV status in the United States and Puerto Rico for years 2017 through 2017.
  • Monitoring Selected National HIV Prevention and Care Objectives, 2021
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from CDC HIV/AIDS Prevention Resources
    This report complements the HIV Surveillance Report and presents the results of focused analyses of National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) data to measure progress toward achieving national HIV prevention and care goals. Data are...
  • Core Indicators for Monitoring the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative, National HIV Surveillance System Data Reported through December 2022 and PrEP Data Reported through September 2022
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from CDC HIV/AIDS Prevention Resources
    The HIV surveillance data tables provide National the latest available data on the six indicators used for monitoring progress in the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. initiative.
  • HIV Infection, Stage 3 (AIDS) - 2021
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from CDC HIV/AIDS Prevention Resources
    This slide set describes rates, percentages, and trends in the number (including cumulative data) of stage 3 (AIDS) classifications and persons living with diagnosed HIV infection ever classified as stage 3 (AIDS) in the United States...
  • 2021 HIV Mortality Slides
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from CDC HIV/AIDS Prevention Resources
    The 2021 HIV Mortality Slide Set outlines trends in mortality in the United States, focusing on deaths attributed to HIV disease. Among persons with HIV disease as the underlying cause of death in 2021, males, Black and African American...
  • Study finds strong interest in injectable PrEP for understudied Malaysian population
    Monday, May 22, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Researchers in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources recently conducted a novel study assessing knowledge of and interest in a new injectable form of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) among men who have sex with men...
  • New clues to why some people suppress HIV without drugs
    Monday, May 22, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Some HIV patients are naturally able to keep the virus fully in check without any medicinal help, a phenomenon that has intrigued scientists for decades.
  • Community support for caregivers helps children living with HIV achieve viral suppression
    Monday, May 22, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Children living with HIV are less likely to achieve sustained viral load suppression if their caregivers are younger, if their caregivers are not virally suppressed or if the children are on a protease inhibitor-based regimen, the recent...
  • Novel gene-editing strategy harnesses an unusual protective ability to eliminate HIV-1 infection
    Friday, May 19, 2023 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Genetic alterations that give rise to a rare, fatal disorder known as MOGS-CDG paradoxically also protect cells against infection by viruses.
  • Novel gene-editing strategy leverages unusual genetic alteration to block HIV spread in cells
    Friday, May 19, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Genetic alterations that give rise to a rare, fatal disorder known as MOGS-CDG paradoxically also protect cells against infection by viruses. Now, scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have harnessed this...
  • Faith-based organisations have been successful in delivering HIV services, African studies show
    Friday, May 19, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Faith communities and leaders in rural Zambia and Nigeria helped provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention services, including PrEP. This approach also increased HIV literacy and decreased stigma in local communites, according to...
  • As many as half the people ‘starting’ HIV treatment in Africa have taken it before
    Thursday, May 18, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Globally, UNAIDS estimates that by the end of 2021, 75% of all people with HIV in the world were accessing treatment.
  • Global coverage of harm reduction programmes up, but remains low
    Thursday, May 18, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Australasia is the only global region with high coverage of needle and syringe exchange programmes and opioid agonist treatment, and globally only nine countries (Australia, Mexico, Canada, the USA, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and...
  • Health & Power: challenging race-based health inequalities
    Thursday, May 18, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Health & Power is NAM's new monthly online broadcast, which examines the most pressing issues facing people of colour and their lived experience of health inequalities.
  • Over 40% prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions among female sex workers with HIV in South Africa, but most unaware of the disease
    Thursday, May 18, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Despite low screening rates, 42% of South African female sex workers with HIV were found to have high-risk pap tests – meaning they showed signs of developing cervical cancer, the INTEREST 2023 conference in Maputo, Mozambique heard this...
  • Safety and activity of immune checkpoint inhibitors in people living with HIV and cancer
    Wednesday, May 17, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    People living with HIV remain at higher risk than people living without HIV for developing various cancers that can be treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Since people living with HIV may have dysfunctional immune systems,...
  • Cancer patients can initiate SARS-CoV-2 vaccination three months after bone marrow transplant
    Tuesday, May 16, 2023 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Patients with cancer whose immune systems are being supported or rebuilt by bone marrow transplantation should begin receiving vaccines for protection against SARS-CoV-2 three months post-transplant, according to a large, prospective,...
  • Why do women in Europe cross borders for abortion care?
    Monday, May 15, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Many women travel across borders in Europe to access abortion care, even when they live in countries with apparently liberal abortion laws. The Europe Abortion Access Project was a six-year research project which set out to understand...
  • Dapivirine vaginal ring shows comparable HIV risk rate with oral PrEP
    Monday, May 15, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Early real-world data from Zimbabwe on the dapivirine vaginal ring shows a similar rate of new HIV acquisitions between women using the ring and oral PrEP, Jabulani Mavudze of Population Solutions For Health in Harare told the INTEREST...
  • More people with HIV in England have dropped out of care than remain undiagnosed
    Monday, May 15, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    As many as 20,000 of the approximately 96,000 people in England who are living with HIV may not be virally suppressed, so could potentially be able to infect others, the British HIV Conference heard in Gateshead last month.
  • Shortages of health workers strongly associated with higher death rates
    Friday, May 12, 2023 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Shortages of health workers such as doctors, nurses and midwifery staff are strongly associated with higher death rates, especially for certain diseases such as neglected tropical diseases and malaria, pregnancy and birth complications,...
  • Relationship education can reduce STIs and risky sex among young gay, bisexual men
    Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    New research from Northwestern University has shown that educating couples, rather than individuals, may be a highly effective strategy to end the HIV epidemic.
  • HIV controllers may be more susceptible to non-AIDS illnesses compared to people on HIV treatment
    Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    A new study finds that HIV controllers – people who don’t need HIV treatment to maintain viral loads below 400 copies – are twice as likely to experience certain non-AIDS-related health conditions, particularly infections such as...
  • One step closer to eliminating latency, the real challenge in combating HIV
    Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    An international study led by MELIS-UPF researchers from the Infection Biology and Molecular Virology laboratories has identified and characterized Schlafen 12 (SLFN 12) as a novel HIV restriction factor. SLFN 12 shuts down viral protein...
  • Tuberculosis disease intensifies HIV antibody response in people with HIV
    Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    New research from Boston Medical Center found that people living with HIV that have had pulmonary tuberculosis had broader and more potent HIV antibody responses and differences in HIV sequences predicted to be antibody resistant as...
  • Differences in genetics, lifestyle factors likely have unique effects on CVD risk in Asian Americans
    Monday, May 8, 2023 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Asian Americans have significant differences in genetics, socioeconomic factors, culture, diet, lifestyle, health interventions and acculturation levels based on the Asian region of their ancestry that likely have unique effects on their...
  • New research reveals challenges faced by mothers living with HIV in Indonesia
    Monday, May 8, 2023 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Living with HIV is certainly a very big deal. It has detrimental mental health impacts on people. Such impacts are even worse for mothers living with HIV whose children are also living with HIV.
  • Geographic mobility impacts vulnerability to HIV among gay and bisexual Latino migrants to the US
    Sunday, May 7, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Gay and bisexual Latino migrants in the United States, especially but not only those who are undocumented, are vulnerable to higher rates of sexual risk behaviours and HIV transmission, a recent study published in Social Science and...
  • Diabetes in pregnancy becoming more common in women with HIV in UK and Ireland
    Sunday, May 7, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    The frequency of diabetes during pregnancy is rising in women with HIV in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in line with trends in the rest of the population, Laurette Bukasa of University College London reported at the British HIV...
  • Both medical and social factors linked with accelerated brain ageing in people living with HIV
    Sunday, May 7, 2023 from Aidsmap news - English
    Heart disease risk factors, hepatitis C and detectable HIV emerged as key factors associated with older-appearing brain structures in people with HIV. Social factors, such as unemployment and living in a poorer neighbourhood also appear...
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