Opportunistic Infections

Home-based HIV counseling and relationship building improved HIV testing, diagnoses and viral suppression among pregnant couples during a trial in Kenya, researchers reported.

Two more people have been potentially cured of HIV after receiving stem cell transplants to treat blood cancer or bone marrow disease, physicians reported Monday.

Healio will be providing live coverage of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, which runs from March 9-12 in San Francisco.

For organ transplant recipients with HIV, kidneys from deceased donors with HIV are noninferior those from donors without HIV, according to data from a U.S. multicenter observational trial.

DENVER — Four children born with HIV who initiated ART within 48 hours of delivery later remained in treatment-free remission for over a year after ART was paused, researchers reported.

DENVER — Long-acting injectable ART administered every 8 weeks safely suppresses HIV in adolescents, according to research presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

As it does every year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is shining a spotlight on emerging research in HIV over the course of 4 days, this year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Organizers announced Tuesday that the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections will be an entirely virtual meeting for the third year in a row because of COVID-19.