CROI 2014: VOICE trial follow shows reported use of products predicted...
BOSTON, MASS. – On one hand, researchers had trial participants’ reports that they could, would and had used the products being tested to determine their potential for preventing HIV acquisition —...
View ArticleCROI 2014: HIV patient deaths, treatment interruptions highlight need to...
BOSTON, MASS – A discussion launched by findings from researchers working in Africa and India Tuesday focused on the quest to keep people living with HIV in care, and on measures to improve their...
View ArticleCROI 2014: GeneXpert real world study yields mixed results, highlights SA...
BOSTON, MASS – Gavin Churchyard and Katherine Fielding presented results this morning from the XPert for TB: Evaluating a New Diagnostic Trial (EXTEND) on the question of whether Xpert MTB/RIF...
View ArticleCROI 2014: With “Mississippi Baby” update, news of another infant, case for...
BOSTON, MASS – The story of the baby born with HIV in Mississippi, treated intensively and immediately, only to be lost to care for five months before turning up healthy, is dominating talk at the...
View ArticleCROI 2014: Plenary speaker looks at 10 years of Global Fund and PEPFAR and...
BOSTON, MASS – What is the value of the numbers of people tested for HIV, if the people who actually have the virus are not being tested? What is the value of the identification of the people who do...
View ArticleCROI 2014: HIV in mothers, infants continues to challenge health, survival
BOSTON, MASS – On the day that brought an update on the Mississippi baby, who remains free of HIV infection two years after antiretroviral treatment was discontinued, and another baby who tests...
View ArticleCROI 2014: PrEP pilots to launch in resource-limited settings
BOSTON, MASS – Dr. Nelly Mugo from the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi was able to summarize the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV acquisition — pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP —...
View ArticleCROI 2014: Sugar daddies? Multiple concurrent partnerships? Studies debunk...
BOSTON, MASS – It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a girlfriend several years or more his junior is one of the drivers of South Africa’s HIV epidemic. Similarly, it is a truth long...
View ArticleCROI 2014: HIV self-testing yields promise in first year of Malawi rollout
BOSTON, MASS – In the first year that residents in Blantyre, Malawi were offered the option to test for HIV through home, or self-test kits, available through community health worker distribution,...
View ArticleCROI 2014: With HIV treatment lag for men, life expectancy gender gap widens
BOSTON, MASS. – When antiretroviral treatment finally came to rural South Africa, it led to one of the fastest life expectancy recoveries in public health history. But men did not benefit equally,...
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