HIV/AIDS News

Adopted children with HIV from foreign countries faced no increased risk for severe medical issues such as immunosuppression, according to research in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

ATLANTA — Troubled adolescents with HIV infection often experience social barriers that prevent or discourage disclosure of their status to sexual partners that can lead to prosecution. Barriers among this at-risk demographic highlight the need for a review of zero-tolerance mandatory disclosure laws, according to a study presented at the CDC’s National HIV Prevention Conference.

ATLANTA — Hospitalwide opt-out testing was successful at increasing the HIV testing rate among children aged 13 years and older at two U.S. children’s hospitals, according to data presented at the CDC’s National HIV Prevention Conference.

Recent data suggest the European transmission rate of HIV drug resistance between 2008 and 2010 was similar to rates recorded in previous years.

New data in a UNICEF AIDS report showed that adolescent deaths caused by complications related to AIDS have tripled since 2000, among other pertinent statistical findings.

World AIDS Day is observed each year on Dec. 1 to raise awareness about HIV and increase efforts toward the eradication of AIDS, according to a press release.

Twelve months of antiretroviral drug treatment was highly effective at preventing transmission of HIV-1 from infected women to their breastfeeding infants, according to recently published data in the Lancet.

Recent news and social media attention surrounding actor Charlie Sheen’s HIV status underscores the importance of effective treatment for the disease.

Brown University researchers have shown that the incidence of HIV significantly increased in the 5 years leading up to violent conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.

Switching from Kaletra–based ART to Sustiva-based ART in South African children with HIV and exposed to nevirapine did not significantly increase rates of viral rebound or viral failure in a recent study.