Overview Testing and diagnosis of hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infection is the gateway for access to both prevention and treatment services, and is a crucial component of an effective response to the hepatitis epidemic. Early identification of persons with chronic HBV or HCV infection ...

SEATTLE — Integration of ART into maternal and child health services during the postnatal period leads to significant improvements in women’s participation in HIV care and resulting viral suppression, according to findings presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). “To understand the context ...

Research on the continuum of HIV care must be improved and benchmarked against an integrated, comprehensive framework in order to make strides against the HIV epidemic, according to researchers at the Rollins School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and the Centers for Disease Control ...

Tuberculosis, the world’s leading infectious killer, may have finally met its match. Two new drug therapies may be able to cure all forms of tuberculosis – even the ones most difficult to treat. “We will have something to offer every single patient,” says Mel Spigelman, president ...

SEATTLE — Data from a study of HIV–infected infants who received early ART suggest the reservoir for HIV lies in cells that were infected before ART initiation. “This is important because we have to understand what the reservoir is to be able to target it and ...

Bictegravir, an investigational integrase inhibitor from Gilead Sciences, was highly potent, well tolerated and worked as well as dolutegravir (Tivcay) in a phase 2 clinical trial, according to study results presented on Tuesday at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle ...

Longer time living with diagnosed HIV infection is strongly associated with depression, anxiety and poor quality of life, according to UK research published in HIV Medicine. Older age in itself was not associated with symptoms of distress or poor mental health but did have an ...

Access to sexual health services among gay and bisexual men worldwide is still essential MSMGF (the Global Forum on MSM & HIV) endorses the Consensus Statement on Risk of Sexual Transmission of HIV from a Person Living with HIV Who Has an Undetectable Viral Load. That ...

Growing up in eastern Ukraine, Svitlana Moroz said she was a typically reckless teenager who believed she’d live forever. She shared needles with friends to inject opium, had unprotected sex with a guy her own age, and five months after hooking up with him, learned she ...

Bioquark Inc. and SC21 Biotech are collaborating on novel cellular therapies for long term HIV control by cost effectively and industrially scaling the production of HIV resistant cells for allogeneic transplant needs. Phialdelphia, PA, February 11, 2017 – Bioquark, Inc., (http://www.bioquark.com) a life sciences company focused ...

New Rochelle, NY, February 9, 2017—A comprehensive collection of articles describing the broad scope and current status of this global effort is published in a special issue of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The third annual ...

Last June, a Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine noted the critical place that the World Health Organization’s list of Essential Medicines had assumed in global health policy and responses — donors, governments and insurers were all more likely to invest in ...

Following individuals through the cascade of care, from HIV diagnosis to treatment and undetectable viral load, rather than taking snapshots of performance, has led researchers on a major South African study to pinpoint linkage to care after testing HIV positive as the biggest weakness of ...

A new partnership has been formed between European and African researchers to develop an AIDS vaccine that can be used to prevent infection with different strains of HIV worldwide. The Globally Relevant AIDS Vaccine Europe-Africa Trials Partnership (GREAT) will evaluate a new vaccine that triggers the ...

Countries that have legalised some aspects of sex work have fewer sex workers living with HIV than countries that criminalise all aspects of sex work, according to an ecological analysis of 27 European countries published online ahead of print in The Lancet HIV. The association remained ...

Researchers from the Dutch pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demonstration study, AmPrEP, have found an unexpectedly high rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in participants tested for it at baseline. The HCV prevalence seen was more typical of that seen in HIV-positive gay men rather than the ...

Researchers recently published their findings on a combination therapy for use in patients with hepatitis C (HCV) genotype 4 in PLoS One. According to the Belgian researchers, sofosbuvir in combination with simeprevir with or without ribarivirn was found to be safe and effective. According to the ...

Although the use of needles to inject illegal drugs is a known risk factor in the transmission of HIV (more than 180,000 injectable drug users with HIV have died since the HIV epidemic began), less attention has been paid to general patterns of drug use ...