Nobel prize awarded to French discoverers of HIV The French scientists who discovered HIV have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.The prize will be shared with the researcher who linked human papilloma virus and cervical cancer.
In 1984, Profs Franoise Barr-Sinoussi and Luc...
High early mortality after starting antiretroviral treatment in Africa Patients starting antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa have a high rate of mortality, according to a review article published in the October 1st edition of AIDS.Many of the deaths occurred in the first three months of treatment,...
Fall in number of undiagnosed HIV infections in the US Latest HIV prevalence figures show that there has been a fall in the number of undiagnosed HIV infections in the US.The figures, reported in the October 3rd edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), also show that there...
Nearly one in three UK HIV patients has considered suicide in the previous week (revised) A UK study of HIV patients at four clinics in London and one in Brighton has found that 31% reported having had suicidal thoughts over the previous week.The study, published in the journal AIDS , found that heterosexual men, people of...
Low rate of spontaneous hepatitis C clearance in patients with HIV; early HIV treatment recommended for those Approximately a quarter of patients coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus spontaneously clear infection with hepatitis C, according to a study conducted by European investigators and published in the November 1st edition of the Journal...
Higher levels of drug resistance seen after first-line NNRTI failure than boosted PI failure: meta-analysis In a meta-analysis of data from nearly 8000 patients reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers found significantly fewer drug resistance mutations, including NRTI-associated mutations, in people who had experienced treatment...
Wide variation found in anal HPV viral loads in HIV-positive men High rates of anal human papilloma virus infection have been found in an Italian cohort of HIV-positive men.A study, published in the October 1st edition of AIDS, also reports that the most common strains of human papilloma virus were...
Low rate of spontaneous HCV clearance in patients with HIV; early HIV treatment recommended for those with chr Approximately a quarter of patients coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus spontaneously clear infection with hepatitis C, according to a study conducted by European investigators and published in the November 1st edition of the Journal...
Offering rapid point-of-care tests would increase uptake of HIV testing Over half the people who decline to take an HIV test would do so if they had the option to take a test that gave the result in 20 minutes, report researchers in the August 2008 issue of the International Journal of STD and AIDS.The...
Cluster of multi-drug resistant HIV transmissions in Seattle Investigators in Seattle have reported a cluster of nine HIV infections involving resistance to multiple drugs from all the three main classes of antiretrovirals.The report is published in the October 1st edition of the Journal of...
