- Rebecca Hodes | 20 July 2010
“If we cannot afford to treat people, are we going to be
able to afford the carnage?” asked Peter Mugyenyi, Director of Uganda’s Joint
Clinical Research Centre, in a double session on ...
- Gus Cairns | 20 July 2010
“Today is the day we achieve proof of concept for
microbicides,” said Professor Gita Ramjee, head of the HIV Research Unit of the
South African Medical Research Council.
She was opening a ...
- Mara Kardas-Nelson | 20 July 2010
As the number of young people living with HIV increases
internationally, new and innovative ways to talk about sex, disclosure, and
health need to be developed for HIV-positive adolescents.
According to a ...
- Liz Highleyman | 20 July 2010
A combination antiretroviral regimen
consisting of lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) plus the
integrase inhibitor raltegravir (Isentress) without
nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) works as well as
a traditional three-drug cocktail, according to findings from the PROGRESS
study ...
- Keith Alcorn | 20 July 2010
Children
born to mothers with HIV in a rural district of KwaZulu Natal were 75% less
likely to die before the age of five if their mothers received antiretroviral
therapy, researchers from the ...
- Keith Alcorn | 20 July 2010
Studies from two developing countries that have prioritised
the scale-up of ART further demonstrated the potential for treatment to have a
dramatic impact on HIV-related mortality in resource-limited settings today at
the Eighteenth ...
- Theo Smart | 20 July 2010
Delaying a course of isoniazid preventive
therapy (IPT) to prevent active tuberculosis (TB) because a person with HIV
hasn’t yet had a tuberculin skin test (TST), or received their results, leaves
the individual ...
- Mara Kardas-Nelson | 20 July 2010
As many as 40% of young people living on the streets in some areas of Eastern Europe are infected with HIV, according to doctors, activists and UNICEF representatives presenting at ...
- Keith Alcorn | 20 July 2010
Two research teams have reached similar conclusions about
the cost-effectiveness of various first-line ART regimens in resource-limited
settings. Less toxic drugs may prove cost-effective for many low- and
middle-income countries as they consider ...
- Rebecca Hodes | 20 July 2010
Leaders of UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have expressed their mutual concern at waning donor support for
HIV.
Executive Directors Michel Sidibé and Michel
Kazatchkine highlighted the ...
- Theo Smart | 20 July 2010
Proclaiming that at least 5.2 million
people with HIV were now receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low and
middle-income countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) formally launched
the 2010 guidelines on Antiretroviral
therapy for ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 20 July 2010
Although
children are doing well on HIV treatment, survival is affected by a number of factors, including delaying the start of treatment, long-term
retention in care and preventing treatment failure so as ...
- Carole Leach-Lemens | 20 July 2010
Children
infected with HIV in resource-poor settings are at a significant risk for
developmental impairment
– affecting neurocognitive functions as well as growth
– in spite of increased access to antiretroviral treatment, researchers ...
- Keith Alcorn | 19 July 2010
A vaginal microbicidal
gel containing the antiretroviral drug tenofovir (Viread) reduced the risk of HIV infection among women who received
it by 39% during a two-and-a-half-year study in South Africa, the Eighteenth
International ...
- Gus Cairns | 19 July 2010
AIDS is no longer an emergency to be met with a “make-it-up-as-you-go”
response, ex-US President Bill Clinton told the Eighteenth International AIDS
Conference in Vienna today.
It needs sustainable funding that is ...
- Liz Highleyman | 19 July 2010
A cure for HIV infection is scientifically
feasible and increasingly necessary, but the goal requires focus and funding, said
Sharon Lewin of Monash University in Melbourne,
in a keynote address at the opening ...
- Gus Cairns | 19 July 2010
A mathematical model developed by the Bloomberg School of Public
Health at Johns Hopkins University shows that developing effective ‘combination
prevention’ programmes for men who have sex with men (MSM), including both
biomedical ...
- Roger Pebody | 19 July 2010
Worldwide,
at least 600 individuals have now been convicted of transmitting HIV or of
exposing others to the virus, a satellite session at AIDS 2010 was told. Whilst
by far the greatest number ...
- Keith Alcorn | 18 July 2010
A
four-country African study of mothers with HIV giving birth in 2007 and
2008
has shown that up to half of children exposed to HIV during pregnancy
and
childbirth did not receive nevirapine ...
- Keith Alcorn | 18 July 2010
Activists sounded a desperate
warning to the world that the gains of the last ten years will slip away if
donors persist in a retreat from funding AIDS.
After a march of 2000 ...