Last update:
HIV & AIDS news
Family support key to overcoming barriers to HIV treatment in Africa
Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that physical mobility, transportation and financial issues pose the biggest barriers to accessing HIV treatment for older adults in South Africa, where 20 to 30 percent ...
Jun 17, 2021
0
1
Sudden cardiac death more likely to fell persons with HIV infection
Individuals infected with HIV are more than twice as likely to die from sudden cardiac death (SCD) compared to the general population, and are more likely to have hearts compromised by fibrosis, a factor that may play a role ...
Jun 16, 2021
0
9
HIV has detrimental effect on children's growth and bone strength
Children growing up with HIV infection have concerning deficits in skeletal strength which become more apparent towards the end of pubertal growth, finds the largest study to date to investigate the link between HIV and skeletal ...
Jun 15, 2021
0
13
40 years of HIV/AIDS: Will the epidemic end?
June marks the 40th anniversary of the first scientific report describing pneumocystis pneumonia, which later became known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). More than 32 million people have died worldwide from ...
Jun 15, 2021
0
1
England on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2030
The annual number of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men in England is likely to have fallen dramatically, from 2,770 in 2013 to 854 in 2018, showing elimination of HIV transmission by 2030 to be within reach—suggests ...
Jun 10, 2021
0
2
People with HIV are at higher risk of ageing-related genetic changes
We don't know enough about biological processes in people who are aging with HIV—a new study sheds light on the matter.
Jun 08, 2021
0
11
HIV 40 years on: Four action points to end AIDS as a health threat
On 5 June 1981 a short report of five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in young homosexual men in Los Angeles marked the discovery of AIDS, the first pandemic of the 20th century caused by a completely new virus, HIV.
Jun 08, 2021
0
0
Even 40 years on: Discrimination still linked with HIV and AIDS
Forty years ago, the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the U.S began to raise public awareness- but new research highlights the struggle people living with the disease still face against stigma, discrimination and negative labeling ...
Jun 08, 2021
0
0
Monoclonal antibody prevents HIV infection in monkeys, study finds
An experimental, lab-made antibody can completely prevent nonhuman primates from being infected with the monkey form of HIV, new research published in Nature Communications shows.
Jun 07, 2021
0
189
Four decades on, where's the HIV vaccine?
In the four decades since the first cases of what would come to be known as AIDS were documented, scientists have made huge strides in HIV treatment, transforming what was once a death sentence to a manageable condition.
Jun 07, 2021
0
12
Four decades of AIDS
Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS.
Jun 05, 2021
0
4
Rate of HIV infections in US fell by 73% from mid-1980s peak to 2019: study
New annual infections with HIV fell by 73 percent from its peak in the mid-1980s to 2019, according to a new analysis by US health authorities released Thursday.
Jun 04, 2021
0
10
Experts see strides on AIDS, but COVID-19 halted progress
Some researchers believe COVID-19 has derailed the fight against HIV, siphoning away health workers and other resources and setting back a U.S. campaign to decimate the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Jun 04, 2021
0
4
UN optimistic on conquering AIDS by 2030
Forty years on since the first AIDS cases were reported, the United Nations said Thursday it was cautiously optimistic that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—the virus that causes the disease—could be beaten by 2030.
Jun 03, 2021
0
2
The state of HIV screening, diagnosis and treatment in the U.S.
In a new feature in the New England Journal of Medicine, Michael Saag, M.D., professor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Infectious Diseases and director of the UAB Center for AIDS Research, details ...
Jun 03, 2021
0
0
How HIV infection shrinks the brain's white matter
It's long been known that people living with HIV experience a loss of white matter in their brains. As opposed to "gray matter," which is composed of the cell bodies of neurons, white matter is made up of a fatty substance ...
Jun 02, 2021
0
9
Marking the 40th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic: A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
June 5, 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the first report of AIDS cases and the onset of the American AIDS epidemic. In a new, thought-provoking paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, Professor Ronald Bayer and co-author ...
Jun 02, 2021
0
2
A fungus is major cause of death among people with HIV in the Brazilian Amazon
A series of autopsies performed in an infectious disease hospital in the Brazilian Amazon reveals that infections by the Histoplasma fungus are a major cause of death in people with HIV. The study, led by Barcelona Institute ...
Jun 01, 2021
0
4
