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Depression puts South African girls at higher risk of contracting HIV

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Depression puts South African girls at higher risk of contracting HIV

Teen girls in South Africa face an extraordinary threat of HIV: By the time they reach adulthood, one in four South African girls will have contracted the virus, and most are first infected during adolescence.

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Distribution of self-test kits can up HIV awareness

(HealthDay)—Distribution of HIV self-tests among men who have sex with men (MSM) can increase testing and newly identified infections, according to a study published online Nov. 18 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Mailing free home HIV tests helps detect more infections

Mailing free home HIV tests to high-risk men offers a potentially better strategy for detecting infections than usual care.

Nov 18, 2019

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HIV treatment innovation leads to better lifetime choices, study finds

Domestic violence and illicit drug use plummeted among women who realized they could live decades longer than they'd expected because of a new HIV treatment, according to a new study involving a Washington University in St. ...

Nov 18, 2019

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Uninfected individuals born to mothers living with HIV at risk of obesity and asthma

Adolescents and young adults who were born to mothers with HIV but remained uninfected themselves still face a greatly heightened risk of obesity and asthma-like symptoms, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) ...

Nov 15, 2019

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The invisible US Hispanic/Latino HIV crisis: Addressing gaps in the national response

"In his February 5,2019, State of the Union Address, President Trump promised to reinforce national efforts to end the US HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. However, the national public health agenda has neglected the accelerating ...

Nov 15, 2019

HIV & AIDS

How HIV infection may raise the risk for sudden cardiac death: New study sheds light

The success of antiretroviral therapies has extended the lives of people living with HIV, long enough for other chronic health conditions to emerge, including a recently documented uptick in sudden death. Now, in a study ...

Nov 14, 2019

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Sex workers' preferences for HIV prevention center on convenience

Preventing HIV in sex workers is a powerful tool in lowering the worldwide burden of the disease, and a new study could help ensure that high-risk women take advantage of medical safeguards.

Nov 13, 2019

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Researchers troubleshoot barriers to HIV care and treatment after diagnosis

When an individual is diagnosed with HIV, it is important that they are enrolled in an HIV care and treatment program to get the medical and emotional support they need. Evidence shows that expansions of the anti-retroviral ...

Nov 13, 2019

HIV & AIDS

DNA technology as a novel strategy for delivery of anti-HIV antibodies

Scientists at The Wistar Institute applied synthetic DNA-based technology to drive in vivo production of broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies in small and large-animal models, providing proof of concept for a simple and ...

Nov 08, 2019

HIV & AIDS

Groundbreaking HIV vaccine design strategy shows promise in proof-of-principle tests

A collaborative team of scientists has made a successful proof-of-principle demonstration of an advanced HIV vaccine strategy—an approach that may also work in protecting people from an array of other deadly infectious ...

Nov 07, 2019

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Predicting the response of HIV-infected individuals to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy

A group of researchers at UPF and the Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics in Moscow, Russia, have designed a mathematical model to predict the response of HIV-infected individuals to a type of cancer immunotherapy. ...

Nov 07, 2019

Medical research

Scientists discover first new HIV strain since 2000

Scientist Mary Rodgers spends her days tracking killers—elusive, constantly mutating viruses that travel the globe and are responsible for illness or death in millions of people. Wednesday, in an article published in the ...

Nov 07, 2019

Medications

A blue pill a day can help prevent HIV, but the people most at risk are not taking it

Transgender women—people born male who identify as women—are the population most at risk for HIV. They are also the most understudied population.

Nov 07, 2019

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Flu shot can provide effective immunity for people living with HIV

People who are being treated for HIV can gain effective protection against seasonal flu with the influenza (flu) vaccine, new findings confirm.

Nov 07, 2019

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Women with HIV at increased risk of early onset menopause

Thanks to medical advancements, HIV-positive women now have a longer life expectancy, exposing them to numerous midlife health issues such as menopause. A new study demonstrates that women with HIV are more likely to enter ...

Nov 06, 2019

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Determinants of employability of people living with HIV/AIDS

People living with HIV/AIDS may face discrimination in employers' hiring practices. A study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine found that medical and socioeconomic factors may hinder their employment.

Nov 06, 2019

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Fighting the HIV epidemic

Stigma is an important contributor to the continued HIV epidemic in the United States. While pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a medication that can be taken to prevent HIV infection, previous research has shown that a barrier ...

Nov 04, 2019

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Study confirms correlates of risk associated with decrease in HIV transmission

Immune responses that are associated with a decreased risk of infection are called correlates of protection (CoP). Clinical trials that measure vaccine-induced antibody and cell-mediated immune responses help to define CoP ...

Nov 01, 2019