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 December 30, 2008
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Year in Treatment News
Now more than 25 years since the 1983 discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS, research continues at a steady clip in pursuit of sound prevention strategies, better treatments and—with a little bit of luck—a cure. While 2008 wasn’t exactly a year of earth-shattering discoveries, there were advances, setbacks and a few telltale hints of interesting things to come in 2009. Here we review the top 10 treatment research developments that made us sit up straight during the past 12 months.
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| December 24, 2008
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December 16, 2008
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Undetectable or Bust: Reevaluating Prolonged Hep C Treatment
The goal of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment is to drop-kick HCV levels to undetectable while on interferon and ribavirin therapy for a year and maintain it for six months after treatment stops. But this only occurs in a minority of people coinfected with HIV and HCV. While it was originally believed that continued treatment might help protect the liver, a large clinical trial suggests that interferon maintenance therapy yields no additional benefit—or does it?
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December 10, 2008
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HIV/AIDS and Latinos in the Deep South
The Latino Commission on AIDS released a report on World AIDS Day documenting the high rates of HIV/AIDS among Latino people in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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| December 08, 2008
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| December 03, 2008
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December 02, 2008
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Path to a Cure? The Risk and Promise of Gene Therapy
Recent news about a possible cure for HIV in a stem cell transplant patient could jump-start the related field of gene therapy. Stem cell expert Dr. David Scadden talks about the risks and the hopes that are moving researchers forward.
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