#Africa

However, the majority of children with HIV in the 20 highest burden nations still aren’t on antiretrovirals.

A recent study in Africa parsed the factors that predicted death after people with a CD4 count below 100 started antiretrovirals.

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) can occur when individuals with low CD4 counts begin HIV treatment.

In the past, he was accused of misusing data, showing religious bias and discriminating against gay men and people with HIV.

An analysis of a previous study of a tenofovir-based vaginal gel found that women with vaginal inflammation were less protected.

Highlights from HIV and hepatitis C research presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston

An analysis of a fishing community yields some of the first evidence of the overall efficacy of a combination approach to prevention.

A nationwide household survey indicated that 61 percent of the nation’s HIV population had a fully suppressed viral load.

The open-label follow-up to a previous placebo-controlled study of an HIV-preventing ring is seeing high use among women.

According to recent studies, this shift in risk is likely driven by biological, and not just behavioral, factors.

With a grant to follow their large study population through 2021, researchers hope to gain vital new insights about HIV infection.

Nevertheless, the benefits of HIV treatment for both the mother and unborn child far outweigh any such risk.

Researchers discovered that higher levels of such cells were tied not only to infection risk but also HIV disease progression.

Looking to the proportion of people with HIV with an undetectable viral load does not account for changes in the overall prevalence of HIV.

This is according to extended follow-up of a trial that gave HIV-positive breast-feeding mothers treatment or prophylaxis for their infant.

The high proportion of individuals starting treatment with drug resistance already warrants changing the recommended first-line therapy.