HIV/AIDS News

Patients with HIV who receive antiretroviral therapy have higher risk for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma if they are coinfected with hepatitis B and C viruses, according to study findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Over the past decade, significant declines were seen in total deaths and age-standardized death rates for many of the world’s communicable diseases, according to findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study.

HIV testing in children from low-income and middle-income countries yielded the best opportunity to diagnose the disease and provide them with ART initiation outside of mother-to-child transmission programs, according to published study findings.

Dual protection with effective contraception and condoms should be central to PCPs’ discussions with young women and couples with HIV who want to avoid pregnancy, according to a clinical report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Study findings from a large clinical trial conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and India indicated healthy HIV-infected mothers assigned a triple-drug ART regimen nearly eradicated disease transmission to their babies by breast milk, according to a news release.

New research presented at AIDS 2016 indicated no significant differences in several HIV-related risk behaviors among heterosexual, gay and bisexual adolescent males in the United States.

Recent findings published in Lancet HIV showed that shortcycle ART, which entails taking it for 5 days then a break for 2 days, was noninferior to continuous therapy for adolescents.

The FDA has recently updated its testing and dosage recommendations for Prezista in pregnant women with HIV.

ViiV Healthcare announced the FDA approved an expansion of the drug label for Tivicay 10 mg and 25 mg oral tablets, reducing the weight limit from at least 40 kg to at least 30 kg, for the treatment of HIV-1 in patients aged 6 to 12 years.

WHO recently announced that Armenia has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV, the Republic of Moldova has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of syphilis, and Thailand and Belarus have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of both infections.