HIV & AIDS

Pediatricians can play key role in HIV testing, prophylaxis

(HealthDay)—In a clinical report published online Dec. 20 in Pediatrics, recommendations are presented for addressing HIV testing and preexposure and postexposure HIV prophylaxis in adolescents and young adults.

Medical research

Discovery of I-shaped antibody opens new avenue to HIV vaccine

About 38 million people worldwide are living with AIDS. Pharmaceutical treatments can keep the disease in check, but a vaccine remains elusive despite decades of concerted effort. However, a recent discovery at the Duke Human ...

HIV & AIDS

Study shows how HIV copies itself in the body

HIV replication in the human body requires that specific viral RNAs be packaged into progeny virus particles. A new study has found how a small difference in the RNA sequence can allow the viral RNA to be packaged for replication, ...

HIV & AIDS

Impact of HIV virus on COVID-19 disease

A new study found that during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic people living with HIV were less likely to die from COVID than persons without HIV. Hospitalized patients with HIV and COVID were less likely to require ...

HIV & AIDS

Dementia more common in adults with HIV

(HealthDay)—People older than 50 years with HIV are more likely to have dementia than people without HIV, according to a study published online Nov. 24 in AIDS.

HIV & AIDS

Experimental mRNA vaccine for HIV shows promise in animals

An experimental HIV vaccine based on mRNA—the same technology used in two highly successful COVID-19 vaccines—has shown promise in experiments in mice and monkeys, according to a study published Thursday in Nature Medicine.

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