- Theo Smart | 27 July 2012
Twelve months of isoniazid (INH) preventive
therapy (IPT) significantly reduced
the incidence of all TB diagnoses among HIV-positive people who were taking concurrent antiretroviral
therapy (ART) according to results of a large
randomised study ...
- Gus Cairns | 27 July 2012
Even using very conservative estimates of efficacy, using
two generic HIV drugs plus one branded one in the most popular first-line
regimen instead of using all three in a single-pill fixed-dose combination
would ...
- Liz Highleyman | 27 July 2012
Investigators presented some of the latest HIV cure-related
research at a press conference and oral session on viral reservoirs at the 19th
International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) this week in Washington, DC. ...
- Theo Smart | 27 July 2012
The lateral-flow urine LAM test for tuberculosis
– a simple
inexpensive strip test for tuberculosis
– is a feasible point-of-care test in hospitalised
South African adults living with HIV and
– if ...
- Liz Highleyman | 27 July 2012
The novel integrase inhibitor dolutegravir worked as
well as raltegravir (Isentress) at 48
weeks for treatment-naive people in the Phase III SPRING-2 study, according to a late-breaker presentation Thursday at the 19th ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 27 July 2012
“It is unacceptable that
children at this point in time are not receiving treatment,” René Ekpini
of UNICEF told a satellite session supported by UNICEF,
IAS-ILF and MSH last Sunday at the 19th ...
- Gus Cairns | 27 July 2012
The 19th
International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) heard further contradictory evidence this week on whether hormonal contraceptives, especially
injectable ones, raise the risk to women of acquiring HIV and, if they already
have ...
- Lesley Odendal | 27 July 2012
HIV infection did not have an impact on the time it
took for people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) to reach culture
conversion, according to a study from Botswana presented at the 19th
International ...
- Kelly Safreed-Harmon | 27 July 2012
A number of studies
presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in
Washington DC highlighted potentially important roles for mobile phone
technology in the delivery of HIV services.
Interest in the
use ...
- Roger Pebody | 26 July 2012
In the midwestern American state of Michigan, prosecutors
and judges still consider HIV infection to be a death sentence and are
dismissive of scientifically grounded arguments about transmission risk and
life expectancy, an ...
- Mara Kardas-Nelson | 26 July 2012
Patents and intellectual property restrictions continue to affect access to antiretroviral drugs, particularly in middle-income settings, according to research presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington ...
- Lesley Odendal | 26 July 2012
Patient retention and linkage throughout
the cascade of HIV care remains very low, placing the concept of ‘test and
treat’ as part of the solution to ending the AIDS epidemic in question, ...
- Liz Highleyman | 26 July 2012
Despite
effective antiretroviral therapy, people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C
remain at higher risk for decompensated liver disease and other liver-related
complications than those with hepatitis C alone, according to
findings presented on ...
- Kelly Safreed-Harmon | 26 July 2012
If men
who have sex with men (MSM) have the option of using rapid HIV testing to
screen potential sexual partners, will they do so?
Until recently
this was a hypothetical question. But in ...
- Keith Alcorn | 26 July 2012
The distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets
and water filters to prevent malaria and water-borne diseases can significantly
reduce the rate of HIV disease progression among Kenyan adults not yet eligible
for treatment, an ...
- Kelly Safreed-Harmon | 26 July 2012
At a session at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington DC, UNICEF
official Chewe Luo called for transforming “PMTCT programmes into ART programmes”
in order to meet global HIV ...
- Gus Cairns | 26 July 2012
A study amongst 2443 people in Zambia,
recruited from HIV clinics and community organisations, found that social
ostracism, rejection by sexual partners and fear of not being able to handle antiretroviral
therapy (ART) ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 26 July 2012
Providing free school
uniforms to enable children to stay in school, in addition to exposing primary school students to the national
HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum, appeared to have a greater effect on reducing ...
- Gus Cairns | 26 July 2012
A study of HIV-positive people in the high-prevalence area of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa shows that a high proportion of people disclosed their
HIV status to family members, generally immediately after ...
- Lesley Odendal | 25 July 2012
The
first evidence of dramatic changes in adult life expectancy in an HIV-endemic
region, from individually measured data in a complete population cohort, showed
large increases in adult life expectancy since the roll-out ...