Investigators at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Wednesday reviewed studies looking to improve linkage to care rates after HIV diagnosis in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Gabriel Chamie of the University of California at San Francisco discussed outcomes in a routine linkage-to-care strategy versus and an enhanced strategy for accelerated antiretroviral therapy (ART) start […]
Dr. Michael Saag presented data on behalf of the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) about a randomized trial of routine versus discretionary viral load monitoring among adults starting antiretroviral (ART) in Zambia Wednesday at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. In mid-2004 when ART was rolled out, the decision was […]
The following is a guest blog post by HIV Medicine Association Executive Director Andrea Weddle, who is live-blogging from the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle. Patient retention in HIV programs has remained stable in a number of resource-limited countries despite rapid patient caseload and program growth since 2003. According to […]
Data shows HIV investments in PEPFAR focus countries lowered mortality by 20 percent compared to non-focus countries Dr. Eran Bendavid of Stanford University set out to convince an audience at the 19th Conference of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) Wednesday that assistance to Africa through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program […]
The following is a guest blog post by HIV Medicine Association Executive Director Andrea Weddle, who is live blogging from the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle. HIV incidence among non-Muslim men has decreased with greater uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision (MMC) in Uganda, according to data presented Tuesday at CROI. […]
Dr. Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha from UNICEF presented a sobering picture of the potential to eliminate 90 percent of HIV infections among children by 2015—the goal established by UNAIDS and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program in June of 2011. She outlined the four pillars of the achieving that goal at the 19th […]
HIV
To control the global health threat of HIV by 2030, according to UNAIDS, these goals must be reached by 2020: To diagnose 90 percent of all […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
Research & Development
A randomized, multi-country clinical trial testing a regimen for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in less than a year against the up to two-year regimen recommended by the […]
Policy
With more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]