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 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections for a second year, with news that the child continues to show no sign […]
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 diagnostic test reduces early mortality in adults with suspected TB, facilitates earlier initiation of TB treatment and antiretroviral therapy and reduces the number of patients […]
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 outcomes. Elvin Geng and colleagues looked at more than 35,000 patients in 14 clinics operated by 5 programs in East Africa […]
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 — whether pills or vaginal gels — and to back that up they had the unused pills and gel applicators the women returned. On the […]
HIV
Leader Needed to Fight Another Pandemic: HIV – While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV services worldwide, the office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator has remained […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]