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PET Scans May Predict Who Gets Inflammatory Reaction to HIV Treatment Start

The imaging method known as a PET scan may be able to predict who among those starting antiretroviral (ARV) treatment with an immune system highly damaged by HIV will develop HIV-associated immune reconstitution syndrome (IRIS).

Published
26 September 2018
From
Poz
Treatment simplification strategies
What you need to know about HIV two-drug regimens

Integrase inhibitors—potent antiretrovirals that quickly and powerfully suppress HIV—have allowed HIV researchers and clinicians to explore dosing regimens that involve fewer than three or four drugs. Proponents of dual therapy say that effective regimens involving fewer drugs will lower costs, decrease pill burden and reduce the potential for drug-drug interactions and side effects. But is it that simple?

Published
28 August 2018
From
BETA blog
Starting treatment
Starting HIV treatment at diagnosis slashes drop out, drug failure rates, China study finds

Patients diagnosed with HIV who started antiretroviral treatment within 30 days had significantly lower rates of dropping out of treatment, and higher rates successful treatment, than those who started later, particularly those who started more than three months after their diagnosis, a study in China has found.

Published
04 June 2018
From
Science Speaks
Treatment guidelines
South Africa: Birth defects fears prompt warnings about new ARV

Despite the public concern globally, very little has been said about the impact of the safety warning about dolutegravir on South Africa, the country with the largest HIV treatment programme in the world. The National Department of Health had already planned to introduce a dolutegravir-based first line regimen to replace the existing regimen, hoping to switch the majority of patients starting from last month.

Published
29 May 2018
From
Health-e
Treatment guidelines
Phase 3 registrational data is not sufficient for roll-out of new ARVs in low- and middle-income countries

Phase 3 randomised trials for drug approval in high-income countries do not provide sufficient evidence to support the widespread use of new antiretrovirals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the majority of people with HIV live. Key missing evidence is typically for pregnant women, people with HIV/TB coinfection and people who have not had resistance testing before starting ART.

Published
15 May 2018
From
HIV i-Base
Starting treatment
State-of-the-art HIV drug could curb HIV transmission, improve survival in India

An HIV treatment regimen already widely used in North America and Europe would likely increase the life expectancy of people living with HIV in India by nearly three years and reduce the number of new HIV infections by 23 percent with minimal impact on the country's HIV/AIDS budget.

Published
01 May 2018
From
Science Daily
Treatment guidelines
Latest DHHS Guidelines for Initial HIV Therapy Now Include 5 Choices — But Really 2 Are Best

With the important caveat that what follows represents my opinion and not that of these or any other guidelines, one could easily argue that there are really two primary choices here, not five.

Published
23 April 2018
From
NEJM Journal Watch
Retention and linkage to care
Improving Access to Patient Care & Time to Viral Suppression Using HIV Rapid Entry Programs

The CDC has reported that 44% of individuals who are living with HIV are residing in the southern region of the United States; HIV diagnosis rates are higher in the South than they are for Americans overall.

Published
22 March 2018
From
Contagion Live
Treatment outcomes and life expectancy
Issue Brief: Suboptimal Immune Recovery on Antiretroviral Therapy

A subset of people on ART experience limited or no recovery of CD4+ T cell counts despite achieving and maintaining undetectable HIV viral loads, and these individuals have an elevated risk of illness and death compared with counterparts who obtain greater CD4+ T cell gains.

Published
06 March 2018
From
TAG
Starting treatment
An Exciting Act II for the Study That Proved Treating HIV Early Is Best

With a grant to follow their large study population through 2021, researchers hope to gain vital new insights about HIV infection.

Published
25 February 2018
From
Poz
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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