News tagged with hiv infection rates


Study finds decline in HIV deaths for most men, women by race/ethnicity, education

Overall death rates due to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection declined over time between 1993 and 2007 for most men and women by race/ethnicity and educational levels, with the largest absolute decreases for nonwhites, ...

HIV & AIDS created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aspirin merits testing for prevention of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women

Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global health investigators and cancer specialists in New York, Qatar and Haiti suggests that aspirin should be evaluated for its ability to ...

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HIV helps explain rise of anal cancer in US males

The increase in anal cancer incidence in the U.S. between 1980 and 2005 was greatly influenced by HIV infections in males, but not females, according to a study published October 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer In ...

HIV & AIDS created Oct 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Hepatitis C kills more Americans than HIV: study

More Americans died in 2007 of hepatitis C infection, which causes incurable liver disease, than from the virus that causes AIDS, US health authorities said this week.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Why HIV infection rates are on the rise

Since HIV infection rates began to rise again around 2000, researchers have been grasping for answers on what could be causing this change, especially in the homosexual community. The rising numbers are a stark contrast to ...

HIV & AIDS created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

No increase in risk of death for patients with well-controlled HIV, reports AIDS journal

For HIV-infected patients whose disease is well-controlled by modern treatment, the risk of death is not significantly higher than in the general population, according to a study published in AIDS, official journal of the Intern ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patient satisfaction leads to better HIV care

In a study of patients at two HIV clinics in the Houston area, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center found that those who were satisfied with the care they received ...

HIV & AIDS created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mugabe says census will reveal AIDS toll on Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe launched the national census Wednesday, saying he hoped the once-a-decade count would measure the extent to which AIDS was affecting the population.

HIV & AIDS created Aug 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Life in the margins: Health researchers learn from society's outsiders

The consequences of social stigma can be physically harmful, and even deadly. People who are shunned by our society—due to homelessness, drug use, non-conforming gender identity, or other attributes—generally ...

Health created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clergy can fight HIV on faith-friendly terms

The public health community has long struggled with how best to reduce HIV infection rates among black Americans, which is seven times that of whites. In a new paper in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of phy ...

HIV & AIDS created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HIV rates for black women in parts of the US much higher than previously estimated

Study results released today indicate that the HIV incidence rate for US women living in areas hardest hit by the epidemic is much higher than the overall estimated incidence rate in the US for black adolescent and adult ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Liver stiffness predicts liver failure, cancer and mortality in cirrhotic patients

Researchers from Spain established that liver stiffness, measured by transient elastography (TE), is an independent predictor of liver failure, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and mortality in cirrhotic patients coinfected ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Washington tailors HIV and AIDS talk to seniors

(AP)—Officials in the nation's capital are asking senior citizens to think about HIV and AIDS.

HIV & AIDS created Oct 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swaziland HIV incidence results announced at AIDS 2012

The results from a nationally representative HIV incidence study in Swaziland indicate that the national rate of new HIV infections is 2.38% among adults ages 18-49. This figure, comparable to the 2009 UNAIDS estimate of ...

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

More S.African pregnant women contracting HIV, study reports

A new study on Monday showed increased HIV infection rates among pregnant women living in areas with high migrant labour in South Africa, the country with one of the world's highest caseloads.

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