Report finds wide gap in pharma companies’ profits and spending on R&D

A new report from Public Citizen, the US-based consumer rights advocacy group, shows that the 20 largest pharmaceutical corporations are spending significantly less on research and development of new medicines than they are making in profits. The report shows that, on average for these top companies, ...

April 06, 2017
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PrEP should be given to all breastfed babies, researchers say
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PrEP should be given to all breastfed babies, researchers say

An international group of researchers involved in the ANRS 12174 randomised controlled trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for infants say that it is high time we started giving PrEP to all breastfed babies of HIV-positive mothers in countries where the likelihood of transmission via breastfeeding ...

April 05, 2017
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April 2017 issue of The Lancet HIV now online

The Lancet HIV is an exclusively online journal dedicated to publishing original research that advocates change in, or illuminates, HIV clinical practice. It publishes translational, epidemiological, clinical, operational, and implementation studies. The April 2017 issue is available here. Source

March 29, 2017
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UNC to create and test injectable long-acting implant to prevent HIV

Implant could offer long-acting, removable form of prevention not currently available Chapel Hill, NC – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new implantable drug delivery system ...

March 28, 2017
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Abnormal bone metabolism with tenofovir for HBV infection

Patients receiving long-term tenofovir therapy for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection have an increased risk for abnormalities in bone metabolism, such as low serum phosphate, according to a study published in the Annals of Hepatology.1 Tenofovir, a first-line antiviral agent for HBV, is generally well-tolerated, although ...

March 21, 2017
Trial finds huge success in HIV treatment
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Trial finds huge success in HIV treatment

Researchers have been successful in increasing HIV treatment success rates by almost 18 percent. Teams from the Universities of Aberdeen, Maastricht and the University and Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, developed a new programme designed to better assist patients treated for HIV in taking their ...

March 07, 2017
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TB community demands WHO to include #TBontheList!

The Stop TB Partnership delivered the letter to WHO requesting inclusion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the WHO’s Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to guide research, discovery and development of new antibiotics. STOP TB PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Geneva, Switzerland – 6 March 2017 — We would like to ...

March 07, 2017
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Grant supports research of neurocognitive disorders associated with HIV

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Professor David Vance, Ph.D., has received a two-year, $404,250 R21 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research for his project “Individualized-Targeted Training in Older Adults with HAND” to develop cognitive training interventions to improve everyday functioning ...

March 04, 2017
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Multiple viral load value testing may better inform HIV transmission potential

SEATTLE — Assessing multiple viral load (VL) values across time may better inform treatment response and potential for HIV transmission, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They presented new data at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI ...

February 27, 2017
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Understanding how HIV evades the immune system

Monash University and Cardiff University (UK) researchers have come a step further in understanding how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades the immune system. Declared a pandemic in 1987 by the World Health Organization, HIV infection has been responsible for 39 million deaths over the last ...

February 23, 2017
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Integrating ART postnatally improves outcomes for mothers, children
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Integrating ART postnatally improves outcomes for mothers, children

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 ...

February 21, 2017
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Gaps identified in HIV care continuum research

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 ...

February 21, 2017
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