Aids

I wasn’t so much hooked as I was hoodwinked!

Paul A. Volberding, MD, is a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

People with hearing loss who did not use hearing aids had an increased risk for dementia compared with those without hearing loss, data show. However, researchers found no increased risk in people with hearing loss who used aids.

The introduction of long-acting injectable cabotegravir PrEP in sub-Saharan Africa could result in fewer future AIDS deaths and new infections, while being a cost-effective alternative to oral PrEP, according to a recent study.

Janssen on Wednesday announced it has stopped the phase 3 Mosaico trial because the investigational HIV vaccine regimen it was testing was not effective in preventing HIV infection compared with placebo.

At the end of this month, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, will officially step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he has led for nearly 4 decades.

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

The world’s largest HIV/AIDS conference is being held for the first time this year as a hybrid meeting.

The International AIDS Conference, now 37 years old, is the longest standing comprehensive conference addressing the full spectrum of developments in controlling the spread of HIV infection globally.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced Monday that it has initiated a phase 1 clinical trial of three experimental messenger RNA HIV vaccines.