NHS England is challenging high court ruling that it has power to commission ‘game-changing’ prevention strategy A legal battle is being fought out in the court of appeal over who pays the bill for a service to block HIV infection. The high court ruled that NHS England ...

Cure rates for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Europe have been estimated to be twice as high as previously thought, according to a research team at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The Tuberculosis Network Clinical Trials Group (TBNET), an international consortium of clinicians and scientists, documented ...

Rutgers’ New Jersey Medical School is selected as test site for novel study Rutgers’ New Jersey Medical School’s Clinical Research Center (NJMS-CRC) is participating as a clinical trial site in a novel study that could signal a new way of protecting people from developing HIV infection, ...

16 September 2016 – UNAIDS and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation hosted a high-level Congressional briefing in the United States Senate to increase momentum around an ambitious Super-Fast-Track framework—Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free. The initiative, which was launched by UNAIDS, the United States ...

The number of cells harboring HIV DNA reaches its highest level within the first two weeks of acute HIV infection and levels at a set-point two weeks thereafter, a clinical trial published in EBioMedicine showed. However, two weeks of antiretroviral therapy at this early stage ...

No evidence of firstly acquired acute hepatitis C virus infection outbreak among HIV-infected patients from Southern Spain: a multicentric retrospective study from 2000-2014 Abstract Background Acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (AHCVI) outbreaks have been described recently within defined areas worldwide among HIV-infected homosexual men. This study aims ...

One in 5 HIV-positive people had persistent alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevations after HCV clearance in a 275-person longitudinal study . HIV independently raised the risk of persistently high ALT. Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) clear HCV in most people with or without HIV infection. National Institute of Allergy ...

Clinicians treating older adults with HIV fell short in preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD) by managing blood pressure and lipids adequately, according to a 1000-person analysis of the Netherlands AGEhIV Cohort . Compared with the HIV-negative control group, HIV-positive people had higher predicted CVD risk and ...

HIV-positive people in their 40s with low overall heart disease risk had higher rates of artery wall thickening than HIV-negative people the same age in a small but careful comparison. Everyone in the HIV group was taking antiretroviral therapy and had an undetectable viral load. Read ...

Young US men enrolled in an open-label tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) protocol regained bone mineral density (BMD) lost while on PrEP during the 48 weeks after they stopped . But bone density Z scores from before PrEP to 48 weeks after stopping PrEP suggested ...

GENEVA, 15 September 2016—Ahead of the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund), to be held in Montreal, Canada, on 16 and 17 September, UNAIDS is calling on donors to fully fund the Global Fund. The Global ...

Substitution therapy for addicts is banned in Russia. Three activists are hoping to gain access to the treatment through the European court of human rights The Russian government has a notoriously punitive attitude towards drugs. Substitution treatments are banned and the only option for recovering addicts ...

All Aboard to a Better Health Future 14 December 2016 – The Square – Brussels, Belgium. Dear Colleague, In December, patient experts in the medicines research and development process will graduate from the EUPATI Patient Expert Training Course, another of EUPATI’s major milestones. It is our pleasure to ...

High rates of psoriasis, Sjogren’s syndrome, and SLE Patients living with HIV/AIDS have an increased risk of developing several autoimmune diseases, a nationwide Taiwanese study suggested. Compared with the general population, the HIV/AIDS group had standardized incidence rates of 1.64 (95% CI 1.24 to 2.13) for Sjogren’s ...

Despite interest in self-testing, many men value sexual health clinic services Among English gay men who have never previously taken a test for HIV, self-testing and self-sampling are the most popular options for a future HIV test, but a significant proportion would use a sexual health ...

The open letter by the European Alliance on Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines is asking the European Commission to ensure a transparent, inclusive and independent process regarding the envisaged evaluation of the IP-related incentives on innovation, accessibility, availability and affordability of medical treatments. This evaluation ...

A Kaiser Family Foundation fact sheet examines the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, including donor pledges and contributions to the fund, its organizational structure, achieved results, and the U.S. government’s role in the Fund’s governance, oversight, and financial support. Original Article

United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines calls for new deal to close the health innovation and access gap The High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines released today its final report, Promoting innovation and access to health technologies. The report can be accessed here. ...