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The New Face of HIV and Treating the 'Hardly Reached'

Physicians, scientists, government agencies, and companies are questioning whether the way they've always recruited for clinical trials still serves patients.

Published
20 July 2019
From
Medscape (requires free registration)
Child developmental issues
Neural tube defects and integrase inhibitors: still waiting for stronger evidence

Researchers are still unable to determine if exposure to integrase inhibitors around conception and in early pregnancy increases the risk of neural tube defects in infants, research

Published
07 March 2019
By
Keith Alcorn
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Integrase inhibitors give greater chance of viral suppression at delivery in pregnant women

Integrase inhibitor-based treatment with either raltegravir (Isentress) or dolutegravir (Tivicay, also in Triumeq) reduces viral load more rapidly than efavirenz if started in pregnancy, findings from

Published
06 March 2019
By
Keith Alcorn
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
New BHIVA guidelines on HIV care in pregnancy and after birth

New British HIV Association (BHIVA) guidelines on the management of HIV in pregnancy have been issued this month, emphasising the continuing scientific uncertainty over HIV transmission through

Published
05 December 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
Child developmental issues
Efavirenz in HIV-positive pregnant women, risk of neurological condition in children

Researchers found children of women whose ART regimen included efavirenz were 60 percent more likely to develop a neurological condition, such as microcephaly (small head), seizures (from a high fever or other cause) and eye abnormalities than children whose mothers took other ART medications.

Published
05 October 2018
From
IDSA press release
Child developmental issues
Developmental problems of children born to women with HIV linked to substance use and HIV, not antiretrovirals

Pre-term births and developmental problems in children born to mothers with HIV are associated with HIV infection, substance use and smoking, Canadian researchers have reported in

Published
11 September 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
Treatment for women
Lynne Mofenson, M.D., Explains the Dolutegravir Risks for People With HIV Who Want to Get Pregnant

Lynn Mofenson, M.D., who is a researcher with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, explains what is known about the potential risk of neural tube defects when dolutegravir is used around the time of conception.

Published
15 August 2018
From
The Body PRO
Treatment for women
Dolutegravir: update on infant neural tube defects from Botswana

Dolutegravir treatment at the time of conception is associated with a higher risk of neural tube defects in infants exposed to the drug when compared

Published
24 July 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
Treatment guidelines
Dolutegravir-based ART recommended for all – if reliable contraception is available

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new antiretroviral treatment guidelines recommending dolutegravir-based treatment as the preferred first-line treatment option for all adults, adolescents and children, including

Published
24 July 2018
By
Keith Alcorn
Treatment for women
FDA says Prezcobix should not be given to pregnant women

Darunavir/cobicistat — marketed as Prezcobix (Janssen) in the United States — should not be given to pregnant women with HIV because of substantially lower exposures of the two medications during pregnancy, the FDA said. The agency updated the label for the once-daily, fixed-dose tablet to reflect the change, which it said was based on data from a small clinical trial involving pregnant women.

Published
11 June 2018
From
Healio (requires free registration)
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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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