Hiv

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

A postmortem study of men with HIV who were being treated with ART revealed that cannabis use is associated with reduced sizes and inflammatory cytokine expression of subtype C HIV-1 reservoirs.

Rates of cause-specific mortality among people with HIV on ART declined between 1996 and 2020, with the largest reductions being in rates of AIDS-related mortality, researchers found.

Using MySTIRisk, an artificial intelligence-based risk assessment tool, researchers were successfully able to create infection risk scores to identify patients at higher risk for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia.

Hepatitis C primary infection and reinfection incidences declined after the introduction of access to direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatments, researchers found.

Updated guidelines for protecting health care workers and patients from respiratory infection transmission are on their way, at the request of the CDC.

Study results suggest that WHO’s triple testing campaign for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C should be expanded and not just target the three groups WHO listed to be most at risk, researchers said.

People with HIV who were treated with tecovirimat within the first 7 days of mpox symptom onset were 13 times less likely to progress to severe mpox disease compared with those not treated or treated late, a recent study found.

As viral hepatitis continues to be a major health concern in the infectious disease field, recent research has highlighted the importance of testing and treatment.

The front page of Healio | Infectious Disease News this year included stories about COVID-19, new vaccines, reversing decades of ID dogma, and more.