- Mara Kardas-Nelson | 22 July 2010
As young people continue to bear the greater proportion of infections,
researchers, doctors, educators and social workers are increasingly intent on
finding the most effective interventions. A session at the Eighteenth International ...
- Mara Kardas-Nelson | 22 July 2010
The AIDS movement is at a “crossroads”, according to two
panels of activists and policymakers speaking this week at the Eighteenth
International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria.
A satellite session hosted by the ...
- Liz Highleyman | 22 July 2010
HIV-positive people co-infected with
hepatitis C virus (HCV) may be more likely to develop osteoporosis (porous
bones) and sustain fractures than individuals with either virus alone,
according to a US study
presented this week ...
- Gus Cairns | 22 July 2010
Mathematical modelling based on the Dutch HIV epidemic suggests
that, in that country at least, heterosexual immigrants from Africa and the
Caribbean stand more risk of acquiring HIV in the Netherlands than ...
- Keith Alcorn | 22 July 2010
Malawi’s
Ministry of Health is planning to provide triple-drug antiretroviral therapy
(ART) to all pregnant women with HIV as the most practical way for the country’s
impoverished health system to quickly reduce transmission ...
- Liz Highleyman | 22 July 2010
People who switched from a
suppressive boosted protease inhibitor to the integrase inhibitor raltegravir (Isentress) generally maintained
undetectable viral load with improvements in blood lipid levels, according to a
pair of studies presented ...
- Gus Cairns | 22 July 2010
Now we have the proof that microbicides can work, what are
the next steps toward providing one? How will they be provided and distributed?
What might they cost? And how will they ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 22 July 2010
Analyses of
20 years of data from the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Register (APR) shows no risk
of birth defects or other defects from antiretroviral use, either in combination
or as individual drugs, when compared ...
- Gus Cairns | 22 July 2010
Three mathematical models presented at the Eighteenth International
AIDS Conference in Vienna have found that circumcision and a microbicide, used
separately or together, could produce modest reductions in HIV incidence.
The models, by ...
- Roger Pebody | 22 July 2010
Among young
Thai men who have sex with men, 6 in 100 acquire HIV each year. With the
average age at infection being 26, this explosive epidemic is affecting a far
younger group ...
- Gus Cairns | 21 July 2010
The HIV transmission rate amongst gay men and men who have
sex with men (MSM) in Denmark appears to be falling even though the number of people
living with the virus continues ...
- Gus Cairns | 21 July 2010
The world lacks the means to treat its way out of HIV,
Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Monday.
However, he presented ...
- Gus Cairns | 21 July 2010
One of the most unexpected and
exciting results of the CAPRISA trial of a successful microbicide (see aidsmap article: Microbicides can work, CAPRISA trial shows, but more trials needed before approval) ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 21 July 2010
Treatment
for children in southern Africa approaches success rates seen in adults,
according to data from Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative’s (BIPAI)
Network of Children’s Centres of Excellence (COE) in Lesotho,
Malawi and Swaziland. ...
- Roger Pebody | 21 July 2010
It’s
feasible and safe for a team of five to circumcise ten men in an hour,
researchers told the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Tuesday. To
achieve this, tasks are shared ...
- Liz Highleyman | 21 July 2010
More than half of European children infected with HIV
through mother-to-child transmission show signs of metabolic abnormalities,
including body fat changes and elevated blood lipid levels that could raise the
risk of cardiovascular ...
- Liz Highleyman | 21 July 2010
HIV/hepatitis C (HCV)
co-infected people who included nevirapine (Viramune)
in their antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen were more likely to achieve
sustained response to interferon-based therapy for chronic hepatitis C,
according to a Spanish study ...
- Roger Pebody | 21 July 2010
Across the
globe, 31 countries have policies of deporting HIV-positive citizens of
other countries, the Eighteenth International Conference in Vienna was told on Tuesday. Moreover,
speakers from three European countries explained that while ...
- Liz Highleyman | 20 July 2010
TBR-652, a dual antagonist or
blocker of both the CCR5 and CCR2 cell surface receptors, shows potent activity
against HIV and also dampens inflammation, participants heard at the Eighteenth
International AIDS Conference this ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 20 July 2010
Early
infant HIV diagnosis (EID) is becoming more frequent, according to a
retrospective multi-country analysis in Cambodia,
Namibia, Senegal and Uganda
in 2009, researchers announced today at the Eighteenth International AIDS
Conference in Vienna.
The 2010
World ...