Infection Control News

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, said Wednesday that he will convene an emergency committee to determine if the increasing spread of mpox in Africa represents a public health emergency of international concern.

A new study provides the first evidence that illicit fentanyl use may play a role in hepatitis C transmission among injection drug users, according to researchers.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America released updated guidelines on complicated intra-abdominal infections for the first time since 2010.

Two experimental HIV vaccine regimens failed to reduce infections in a 3-year trial in eastern and southern Africa compared with participants who were taking a placebo, some of whom were on oral PrEP, according to a study.

Researchers found that lenacapavir, an investigational long-acting antiretroviral drug, prevented 100% of new HIV infections among cisgender women in Africa who received injections every 26 weeks.

In March, Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency after recording 549 cases of dengue virus since the start of 2024. The number rose to more than 1,900 cases as of July 24, when the CDC issued a health alert for the United States.

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.

A 60-year-old man in Germany became the seventh person to be considered potentially cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a person with a genetic mutation that prevents infection.