HIV/AIDS News

SEATTLE — Recently published recommendations for the prevention of pediatric HIV infection say people with HIV should be counseled about infant feeding prior to conception or as early as possible in pregnancy.

In Tanzania, pregnant women with HIV who had access to antiretroviral therapy for life had less than a 2% risk for vertical transmission, according to data published in The Lancet HIV.

On Thursday, experts, clinicians and researchers across the world acknowledged World AIDS Day, celebrated each year on December 1.

The 35th annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York.

Experts say that people with HIV should be included in clinical trials for new tuberculosis vaccine candidates in the pipeline, according to newly written recommendations published in The Lancet HIV.

More than 40 years ago, on June 5, 1981, a report of five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia among young men in Los Angeles marked the first account of what would come to be called AIDS.

Results of a multisite cohort study showed that dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy regimens are safe among pregnant women with HIV, and they more frequently led to viral suppression than other regimens commonly used in the U.S.

In its annual report, UNAIDS said urgent action is needed to get the fight against HIV/AIDS back on track after it was derailed by “overlapping crises,” leaving up to 4,000 people with new HIV infections every day.

New data showed a sharp decrease in CDC-funded HIV tests administered in health care and non-health care settings from 2019 to 2020 — primarily among groups disproportionately affected by HIV.

An 8-year-old boy was seen collecting money by dancing in the street in the Central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC.