CDC: 70 percent of Americans do not have their HIV under control.
Just 30 percent of Americans with HIV had the virus under control in 2011, and approximately two-thirds of those whose virus was out of control had been diagnosed but were no longer in care, according to a new Vital More...
Haiti reports 25000 new HIV cases in 2013
Haitian health officials are reporting via their Epidemiological Bulletin for HIV Surveillance #7 (computer translated) that from January to December 2013, there were 25,161 newly diagnosed cases during the year, More...
Philippines DOH clarifies position on ‘mandatory’ HIV testing in response to critics
Several HIV interest groups recently criticized the DOH for its plans to implement “mandatory” HIV testing while citing provisions in the 1998 AIDS law that does not allow “compulsory” testing. In More...
Scientists Show AIDS Vaccine Could Work Against Changeable Site on HIV
PRESS RELEASE LA JOLLA, CA—May 14, 2014—A vaccine or other therapy directed at a single site on a surface protein of HIV could in principle neutralize nearly all strains of the virus—thanks to the diversity More...
Lipid Concentration Determines Time of HIV Spread
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health have found that an inheritable trait, in which dendritic cells of the immune system have low levels of cholesterol, slowed the usually rapid More...
Northwestern U professor talks details about intravaginal ring device
Patrick F. Kiser Ph.D, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University discusses a device that could change women’s reproductive health in a significant way–an intravaginal ring More...
CDC reports rare woman-to-woman HIV transmission
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) today of a rare, but likely female-to-female transmission of HIV, which occurred in Houston, More...
Vaginal ring delivers herpes, HIV antivirals, contraceptives for months of protection: Northwestern researcher
A Northwestern University (NU) researcher has come up with a device that could change women’s reproductive health in a significant way–an intravaginal ring that delivers antiviral protection against More...
Miami researchers make a dramatic step towards an HIV vaccine
The elusive HIV/AIDS vaccine. Researchers have been trying to develop this vital preventive tool for the viral syndrome for years. Now, researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Center More...
The Top 5 most prevalent sexually transmitted infections in the US
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates there are more than 110 million sexually transmitted infections (STI) among men and women nearly split evenly. This number includes both new and existing More...
Letter to the Editor: HIV-infected women released from jail have worse HIV treatment outcomes than men, according to Yale study
In response to an interview I had with the lead author of the study, “Gender Disparities in HIV Treatment Outcomes Following Release From Jail: Results From a Multicenter Study”, Jaimie P. Meyer, MD, More...
HIV-infected women released from jail have worse HIV treatment outcomes than men, according to Yale study
A recently published study in the American Journal of Public Health shows that HIV-infected women transitioning from jail experience greater comorbidity and worse HIV treatment outcomes than their male counterparts. Jaimie More...
Knowing HIV status lowers sexual risk among US gay and bisexual men
A new analysis of data from 20 major U.S. cities reveals continued signs of sexual risk among gay and bisexual men, but shows dramatically lower sexual risk among those who accurately know their HIV status. The More...
HIV infections up in Europe
The number of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections has increased by 8 percent from 2011 to 2012 on the European continent, according to new data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and More...
New HIV infections down 33% since 2001: UNAIDS
The combined, adult and children, new HIV infections has dropped by a third, according to new data released today in the 2013 UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic. Public domain photo/ ChristianHeldt via More...
Two men clear of HIV post-bone marrow transplants
Two patients at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) are HIV free after undergoing bone marrow transplants for cancer treatment, according to findings presented at the International AIDS Society More...
WHO: Earlier ART recommended in new guidelines
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new treatment guidelines for HIV, which centers around earlier antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to the newly published guidelines. Image/CIA The new recommendations More...
Emory releases new national data on AIDSVu, the interactive national HIV mapping tool
The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University launched its annual update of AIDSVu, including new interactive online maps that show the latest HIV prevalence data for 20 U.S. cities by ZIP code or census More...
HAART appears to protect against heart damage: NIH
For children who have had HIV-1 infection since birth, the combination drug therapies now used to treat HIV appear to protect against the heart damage seen before combination therapies were available, according More...
NIH: Children exposed to HIV in the womb at increased risk for hearing loss
From an NIH news release June 20, 2012: Photo/US Navy Children exposed to HIV in the womb may be more likely to experience hearing loss by age 16 than are their unexposed peers, according to scientists in a National More...
