http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Elizabeth D. Lowenthal, M.D., M.S.C.E., of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether there was a difference in time to virological failure between HIV-infected children initiating nevirapine vs. efavirenz-based antiretroviral treatment in Botswana. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-antiretroviral-regimen-virological-failure-hiv-infected.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:00:01 EST news286534739 The large antiretroviral treatment (ART) scale-up in a rural community in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has led to a rapid and dramatic increase in population adult life expectancy—a gain of 11.3 years over eight calendar years (2004-2011)—and the benefit of providing ART far outweighs the cost, according to new research from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-scale-up-hiv-treatment-rural-south.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:00:23 EST news280676191 The rate of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men in England and Wales has remained unchanged over the past decade despite an almost four-fold increase in HIV testing, rising treatment coverage, and a 20 percent shortening of time-to-diagnosis, according to new research published Online First in the Lancet Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hiv-men-sex-england-wales.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news278872420 (HealthDay)—For HIV-infected patients, despite combined antiretroviral treatment (cART), the risk of anal cancer is still much higher than in the general population, according to a study published in the Dec. 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-cart-anal-cancer-high-hiv-infected.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:00:03 EST news274633924 Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gotten us one step closer to understanding and overcoming one of the least-understood mechanisms of HIV infection—by devising a method to precisely track the life cycle of individual cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-technique-decipher-dormant-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:54:58 EST news266586891 Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the three-decade-old disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-paths-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:36:09 EST news262542964