- Gus Cairns | 24 July 2014
A meta-analysis of every study that has looked at the sexual behaviour of people after starting HIV treatment has found not a single instance
of so-called ‘risk compensation’ – the idea ...
- Roger Pebody | 24 July 2014
A sophisticated meta-analysis, pooling individual-level data
on 37,000 women, has found that the use of DMPA injectable hormonal
contraception is linked with a higher rate of new HIV infections in women, the 20th International ...
- Liz Highleyman | 23 July 2014
High-grade anal dysplasia is common among gay
men living with HIV, but it often resolves spontaneously and routine treatment may not
be beneficial, according to results from the Australian SPANC study presented
on ...
- Gus Cairns | 23 July 2014
The pilot phase of a trial in South Africa that aims to treat everyone
living with HIV in a community and compare the effect of this with standard treatment
has found that ...
- Gus Cairns | 23 July 2014
A study from Zambia has found that a programme of couples
voluntary counselling and testing (CVCT), in which male/female couples are counselled
together before testing for HIV and again after testing, was ...
- Keith Alcorn | 23 July 2014
International donors are investing only 7% of what is needed
to provide adequate harm reduction coverage for people who inject drugs,
according to findings from a report presented on Wednesday at the ...
- Liz Highleyman | 23 July 2014
An NRTI-sparing dual antiretroviral regimen containing maraviroc
(Celsentri) plus ritonavir-boosted
darunavir (Prezista) was found to be
less effective than a standard combination with tenofovir/emtricitabine (the
drugs in Truvada), according to
findings from the MODERN study ...
- Roger Pebody | 23 July 2014
There are significant losses at each step of the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) ‘treatment cascade’, according to a systematic
review and meta-analysis of 97 studies presented to the 20th
International AIDS Conference (AIDS ...
- Roger Pebody | 23 July 2014
Laws which criminalise homosexual behaviour – such as those recently passed by Nigeria and Uganda – are not just symbolic or rarely put into practice, a global survey shows. One ...
- Gus Cairns | 22 July 2014
The first results published from the IPERGAY study, a trial of
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in gay men taking place in France and Quebec,
Canada, appear to indicate excellent adherence to a novel ...
- Gus Cairns | 22 July 2014
Two presentations at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in
Melbourne described new pathways being explored in the search for either a
permanent cure for HIV or for longer-acting drugs.
In one, ...
- Liz Highleyman | 22 July 2014
The HDAC inhibitor romidepsin was able to awaken
latent HIV in resting T-cells, causing it to start producing new virus, but
this was not associated with a decrease in the size of ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 22 July 2014
While new HIV infections have
declined among children, adolescents and adults since 2000, HIV-related deaths have
risen sharply among adolescents, especially 15- to 19-year-old males, Tyler Porth
of UNICEF told delegates at the ...
- Gus Cairns | 22 July 2014
The 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) heard yesterday that the reappearance of HIV in a girl now
aged four, who maintained an undetectable viral load off therapy for more than
two ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 22 July 2014
Combining unconditional
economic support in the form of government cash transfers, school feeding and
food gardens, and psychosocial support (positive parenting and teacher social
support) reduced incidence of HIV risk behaviour by around ...
- Liz Highleyman | 22 July 2014
Progress along the multi-pronged path towards a cure for HIV was one of the
themes at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), taking
place this week in Melbourne. Researchers provided updates on the ...
- Gus Cairns | 22 July 2014
The open-label extension of the iPrEx study
of pre-exposure prophylaxis (iPrEx OLE) reported its main findings at the 20th
International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne, Australia today, and published
simultaneously in The ...
- Keith Alcorn | 21 July 2014
'Stepping up the pace', the theme of AIDS 2014, will require
a new focus on key populations and geographical concentration of HIV, as well as
intensified efforts to expand coverage of HIV ...
- Gus Cairns | 21 July 2014
A study presented today at the 20th International AIDS
Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne found positive associations between voluntary medical
male circumcision (VMMC) and a reduced incidence of syphilis, not just in ...
- Lesley Odendal | 21 July 2014
A
novel TB drug regimen that could treat drug-sensitive and
some forms of drug-resistant TB far more quickly than current standard TB
therapy, according to findings from a phase IIb trial
were presented today ...