HIV/AIDS News

Although opportunistic infections and death are less common among HIV-infected youth receiving ART, these patients are now experiencing higher rates of psychiatric, neurodevelopment, metabolic, inflammatory and genital tract diseases, according to a recent study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Adolescents who migrated from Mexico and Central America to the United States and joined the sex trade in Mexico’s border towns were at increased risk for sexual violence and HIV infection compared with sex workers who started as adults, according to a recent study in JAMA.

The FDA has approved a diagnostic test able to specify HIV infection type from human serum or plasma specimens, according to a press release.

Long-term remission appears to be achievable for children born with HIV-1 and treated at an early age, according to data presented at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention.

A Botswanan policy change extending the duration of secondary schooling may have led to a decrease in HIV infection, according to recently published data.

Gilead Sciences is seeking FDA approval for its investigational, once-daily regimen of emtricitabine 200 mg and tenofovir alafenamide 25 mg, plus Janssen Pharmaceutical’s rilpivirine 25 mg, for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older, according to the press release.

New South Wales health officials have warned that more than 12,000 patients may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C viruses as a result of poor infection control at four dental clinics in the Sydney, Australia, area, according to a press release.

A novel device for voluntary medical male circumcision has received prequalification from WHO for use, according to a press release.

The third variable loop, a previously discounted region of the HIV virus envelope, has been identified to have a strong antibody response, which according to a recent study, could reduce the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child.

Since 1990, high-income countries distributed nearly $458 million in funding for the maintenance and improvement of heath care services in developing countries, according to recently published data in JAMA.