HIV/AIDS News

People with HIV continue to have a higher risk of invasive meningococcal disease compared with people without HIV regardless of the 2016 recommendation that people with HIV receive routine vaccination for invasive meningococcal disease.

Among people being treated for HIV, young children experience the highest rate of death — up to nine times higher than other age groups, according to study findings published in MMWR.

The Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will bid farewell this year to a couple of longtime presenters.

The number of adolescents with a prescription for HIV prevention medication increased by more than 75% during the first 3-plus years the medicine was available to them, according study findings published in Pediatrics.

BOSTON — A single dose of benzathine penicillin G is effective against early syphilis regardless of HIV status, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

WASHINGTON — The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday named Anthony S. Fauci, MD, FAAP, an honorary fellow for what it called his “decades of distinguished leadership, dedication, wisdom and service to children and families.”

BOSTON — Sub-Saharan African countries supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, tested for COVID-19 at three times the rate of non-PEPFAR nations, according to data presented at IDWeek.

Researchers confirmed the dosing of an ART combination designed to treat children with HIV and found that it was safe, well tolerated and efficacious through 24 weeks, according to results published in The Lancet HIV.

Five male infants in South Africa who were born with HIV were able to maintain undetectable viral loads for months despite low adherence to ART, according to researchers at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.

Compared with their peers, people with HIV experienced a smaller decline in mortality risk from COVID-19 during the omicron wave of the pandemic, researchers reported.