- Liz Highleyman | 22 July 2019
The Joint United
Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released its
latest report on the status of the HIV epidemic and the global response ahead
of the 10th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS
2019), taking place this ...
- Michael Carter | 18 July 2019
Engagement with the HIV care
continuum among individuals with perinatally-acquired HIV in the United States
falls well below targets, research published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndromes ...
- Michael Carter | 29 May 2019
Switching to
second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) after a single viral load measurement
above 1000 copies/ml has the potential to save lives, avert a significant
burden of AIDS-related illnesses and help achieve the 90-90-90 ...
- Roger Pebody | 08 March 2019
As well as the important findings
of PopART, the largest HIV prevention trial ever conducted, this week’s
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle heard
about several other studies from African ...
- Roger Pebody | 07 March 2019
In 2016, more than half of people with HIV in the United
States took more than three years to be diagnosed, and more than five months
after diagnosis to be virally suppressed, ...
- Roger Pebody | 06 March 2019
Communities in southern Africa which received a door-to-door HIV testing
intervention and support for linkage to care had substantially lower HIV
incidence, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2019) in ...
- Roger Pebody | 05 March 2019
Same-day provision of results from a point-of-care viral
load test – rather than waiting weeks for laboratory results to be collected –
resulted in a 14% improvement in virological suppression and retention ...
- Roger Pebody | 05 March 2019
In just two years, the incidence of new HIV infections in
men who have sex with men attending English sexual health clinics fell by 55%, according to data presented by Dana ...
- Roger Pebody | 14 February 2019
A simple HIV prevention cascade could be a powerful tool for
advocates, policy makers and funders, researchers argue in The Lancet HIV. It could help us understand where
the gaps in prevention ...
- Gus Cairns | 07 February 2019
Eastern Europe continues to have one of the worst HIV
epidemics in the world outside sub-Saharan Africa, with the worst linkage
to care of any region in the world, last week's meeting ...
- Esther Nakkazi | 19 December 2018
A mathematical model has shown that just under half of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are likely to
reach UNAIDS’ ambitious 90-90-90 target and ultimately 73% of all people living
with HIV in ...
- Roger Pebody | 10 December 2018
Patient-provider relationships are strained by poor working
conditions and rigid application of one-size-fits-all models of care, according
to an in-depth investigation of why people with HIV drop out of HIV treatment
services in ...
- Gus Cairns | 29 November 2018
The 2018 report from Public Health England is entitled Progress towards ending the HIV epidemic in the United Kingdom, and for once the note of optimism in the title is justified.The report ...
- Gus Cairns | 05 November 2018
In the high-prevalence countries of southern Africa, young women under 25 bear the brunt of the epidemic, with continued high rates of HIV infection. So much so, that epidemiologists at ...
- Michael Carter | 23 October 2018
An undetectable
viral load within three months of HIV diagnosis should be added as a target to
the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy, public health officials from New York City argue in The ...
- Michael Carter | 18 October 2018
Providing information on how to navigate care pathways,
psychosocial support, and immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) to
HIV-positive people who inject drugs in Ukraine, Vietnam and Indonesia
increased retention in care, ART use, viral ...
- Gus Cairns | 10 September 2018
Funders, health providers and advocates should take lessons
from the rollout of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an HIV
prevention measure in Africa if they wish to hasten access to programmes
providing ...
- Roger Pebody | 05 September 2018
Less than half of black transgender women living with HIV in
the United States are aware of their HIV status, but most of those who have been
diagnosed report that they engage ...
- Michael Carter | 05 September 2018
HIV testing and treatment
programmes in sub-Saharan Africa need to prioritise older individuals,
according to research published in PLOS
ONE. Investigators in Uganda found that after starting antiretroviral
therapy (ART) people aged 50 years ...
- Gus Cairns | 04 September 2018
A prospective study that recruited a significant proportion of people newly diagnosed with HIV in four locations in Indonesia and
offered them immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) found that only 35% of
them ...