AIDS/HIV

Transforming primary care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people: a collaborative quality improvement initiative This report--describing the first national quality improvement collaborative focused on providing culturally…

Health care providers working with young gay men of color should begin routine testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections at earlier ages, say Rutgers researchers Young gay sexual minority men - especially Black and Latino…

BOSTON - The impact and prevalence of heart disease and other critical comorbidities on an aging global population with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have emerged from a suite of articles in The Journal of Infectious Diseases that…

"We must work together to give pregnant women the evidence base they deserve." CHAPEL HILL, NC - July 10, 2020 - Pregnant women are among those most in need of safe and effective preventives and treatments for HIV and co-infections. Yet…

'NIMART' faces challenges and opportunities in eliminating HIV/AIDS, reports study in JANAC July 8, 2020 - "Nurse-initiated and managed antiretroviral therapy" (NIMART) is an innovative approach to making effective medications more…

Credit: Oxford University Press Every human being has the right to health and new initiatives should be put in place to encourage pharmaceutical companies to ensure that everyone has access to essential medicine, according to a new…

Both methods highly effective at preventing HIV among men who have sex with men and transgender women WHAT: A pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen containing an investigational long-acting form of the HIV drug cabotegravir injected…

Both cabotegravir and oral tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) have high efficacy for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) DURHAM, N.C. - Researchers from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced today that the HPTN 083 clinical trial…

Even with effective anti-retroviral therapy, patients infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) sustain central nervous system damage. Whether these problems can be mainly attributed to the disease, its treatments, or…

Credit: Syracuse University Syracuse, N.Y. - Syracuse University chemistry professor Dr. Robert P. Doyle has developed a new drug lead to treat type 2 diabetes in millions of patients who are seeking to better control their blood…

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute LA JOLLA, CALIF. - June 23, 2020 - Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have created a next-generation drug called Ciapavir (SBI-0953294) that is…

The first participants in South Africa's first clinical trial for a vaccine against Covid-19 will be vaccinated this weekCredit: WITS UNIVERSITY The first clinical trial in South Africa and on the continent for a Covid-19 vaccine was…

Credit: University of Stirling Pioneering research led by the University of Stirling could play a vital role in reducing the prevalence of "snail fever" - a debilitating infection that affects more than 200 million people…

UCLA researchers and colleagues have received a $13.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate and further develop an immunotherapy known as CAR T, which uses genetically modified stem cells to target and…

What The Study Did: Researchers estimated the difference in overall life expectancy and years free from major chronic illnesses between individuals with HIV infection with access to care and similar uninfected adults from the same health…

Credit: Photo by Ragnhild Larsson Over time, depression has decreased among older women. But it is still nearly twice as frequent as among older men. This difference between men and women appears to be connected with both…

Credit: Ojala lab The oncogenic herpesvirus (HHV8 or KSHV) causes a cancer known as Kaposi's Sarcoma. An international team of scientists led by the University of Helsinki has discovered key factors that control the genome…

Fatah Kashanchi, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Virology, School of Systems Biology, and Lance Liotta, Co-Director, Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, are working to mitigate virally driven HIV pathenogenesis in the central…

Studies of food programs and treatment in jailsCredit: Flinders University HIV management in developing countries varies with socioeconomic and structural circumstances, with two Flinders University studies finding examples of key…

Credit: Dr. Louis M. Staudt, National Cancer Institute Study confirms effective, less toxic alternative to standard treatment for adults with Burkitt lymphoma In a new study, an alternative treatment regimen that is less toxic…