News tagged with antiretrovirals


Landmark HIV treatment-as-prevention study shows additional health benefits, cost-effectiveness

WHAT: Further analyses of the landmark NIH-funded treatment-as-prevention study (HPTN 052) have found that providing antiretroviral treatment to HIV-infected individuals earlier, when their immune systems are healthier, delays ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small breakthroughs offer big hope of AIDS 'cure'

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.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early HIV treatment may improve socioeconomic conditions in rural sub-saharan Africa

Adults with HIV in rural sub-Saharan Africa who receive antiretroviral drugs early in their infection may reap benefits in their ability to work and their children's ability to stay in school, according to a first-of-its-kind ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New HPTN 052 study results reveal additional benefits of early HIV treatment

Study results released today by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) show additional benefits of early antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV clinical outcomes. Expanded analysis of HPTN 052 study data, presented today at ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AIDS cure may have two main pathways: experts (Update)

Investigators are looking into two main paths toward a cure for AIDS, based on the stunning stories of a small group of people around the world who have been able to overcome the disease.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gates urges more tools, vaccine to end AIDS

AIDS cannot be halted through treatment alone, and more prevention tools, in particular a vaccine, are needed to move seriously toward ending it, philanthropist Bill Gates said Monday.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sex, drugs, stigma put Thai transsexuals at HIV risk

From a cafe near the go-go bars of a Bangkok red light district where she campaigns for safe sex, Gigi gives an unvarnished view of how she joined Thailand's growing ranks of transgender people with HIV.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AIDS charity honors Gates on eve of global conference

Leading AIDS charity amfAR honored Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates on the eve of the International AIDS Conference, for his part in funding an ongoing struggle against the disease.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical study in rural Uganda shows high demand for antiretroviral drugs

An ongoing clinical study in rural Uganda, begun in 2011, suggests that many people infected with HIV/AIDS would take antiretroviral drugs if they were available to them—even before they developed symptoms from the disease.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

International group urges prompt HIV treatment for all

An international group of scientists on Sunday called for all adults who test positive for HIV to be treated with antiretroviral drugs right away rather than waiting for their immune systems to weaken.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HIV suppression not as good as previously thought, largest study of viral-load blood tests show

Tens of thousands of Americans taking potent antiretroviral therapies, or ART, to keep their HIV disease in check may not have as much control over the viral infection as previous estimates have suggested, according to results ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Among new HIV treatment recommendations, all adult patients should be offered antiretroviral therapy

Included in the 2012 International Antiviral Society-USA panel recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient care is that all adult patients, regardless of CD4 cell count, should be offered antiretroviral ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Benefits of HIV drugs rise -- but less than previously believed, study shows

The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than previous estimates. The findings, ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HIV racial disparities noted for men who have sex with men

(HealthDay) -- Similar racial disparities are seen in HIV infection for men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States and the United Kingdom, according to a study published online July 20 in The La ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In Washington, free HIV-AIDS testing while you wait

Faced with the highest HIV-AIDS rates in the United States, community health activists in the nation's capital have come up with a novel way for people to save their own lives while killing time.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0