HIV/AIDS News

The International Antiviral Society-USA released updated guidelines today for the treatment and prevention of HIV, outlining new findings, regimens, approaches and data.

Among adolescent girls with pelvic inflammatory disease, screening rates for HIV and syphilis are low, according to findings published in Pediatrics. “The majority of diagnoses of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) among young women occur in the emergency room setting, rather than in primary care practices,” Monika K. Goyal, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at George Washington University and director of research in the division of emergency medicine and trauma services at Children’s National Health System, told Infectious Diseases in Children. “However, our findings strongly suggest there is ample room for improvement.” 

Since the 2016 United States elections, immigrants from Latin America with HIV have become more anxious about the possibility of being deported to their home countries and losing access to medical care, according to a recent Viewpoint published in The Lancet HIV.

Voluntary medical male circumcision may save costs in the long term and has already impacted the future of Zimbabwe’s HIV epidemic by averting new infections, according to a modeling study published in PLoS One.

The FDA has approved labeling changes for Intelence to expand treatment for HIV-infected patents aged 2 to 6 years and weighing at least 10 kg.

With just 10 days remaining until the end of the comment period for the changes to Title X proposed by HHS, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, or ACOG, held a press conference with several other major health care associations to raise awareness of the threats posed by the changes.

Researchers have identified several limitations in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in major delivery units in the Atlanta metropolitan area, according to published study results in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Today is National HIV Testing Day, which the CDC recognizes each year on June 27 to promote the importance of detecting, testing and preventing HIV. Since 2006, the CDC has recommended one-time screening for all patients aged 13 to 64 years and screening at least once a year for high-risk patients. However, data published recently in MMWR show HIV testing intervals often exceed 1 year among high-risk groups, and that many of these patients have never been tested.

ATLANTA — Infants born to mothers with HIV who were not infected at the time of birth had significantly higher levels of regulatory lymphocyte T cells than infants who were infected in utero, according to research presented at ASM Microbe.

The FDA issued a safety alert today warning patients and providers about a potential risk for neural tube birth defects in babies born to women with HIV who received dolutegravir during early pregnancy.