Pediatric ID News

Testing HIV PrEP users for STIs every 6 months did not increase the risk for STIs compared with testing them every 3 months and could reduce the cost of PrEP programs, according to a study.

Three-quarters of people globally living with HIV are on ART, a roughly 30% increase during the last nine years, and fewer people acquired HIV in 2023 than at any point since the late 1980s, UNAIDS reported.

Despite global progress toward eliminating HIV — including a growing number of nations that have hit goals to diagnose and successfully treat patients — funding pullbacks threaten to add decades to the battle, according to a study.

Researchers developed a low-cost rapid test to detect an invasive species of mosquito that has adapted to live near humans in urban environments, which they hope can be used in areas far from medical labs.

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined.

Long-acting injectable PrEP is feasible and acceptable to both men and women, according to a study presented at the AIDS 2024 meeting in Munich.

A seventh person has potentially been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer, researchers announced on the eve of the 25th International AIDS Conference.

The risk for developing long COVID declined over the course of the pandemic but has remained significant, researchers reported.

There was a combined 20% increase in six antimicrobial-resistant hospital infections in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the number of clinical cases of Candida auris increased fivefold, according to the CDC.

Ivory Coast administered the first doses of the world’s second malaria vaccine this week, according to the vaccine’s manufacturers, marking the latest development in a decades-long effort to control the deadly mosquito-borne disease.