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,...
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
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...
"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...
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 &...
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...
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."
Doctors and patients in several states would get some relief from burdensome prior authorization requirements if reform legislation becomes law. Medscape Medical 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...
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 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...
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...
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 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
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 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...
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 is NAM's new monthly online broadcast, which examines the most pressing issues facing people of colour and their lived experience of health inequalities.
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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,...
New research from Northwestern University has shown that educating couples, rather than individuals, may be a highly effective strategy to end the HIV epidemic.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...