A Week of HIV – 30Apr2010
Did HIV Originate in Haiti? Some people are convinced that it did.
Hip Pain – Should You be Concerned?
Every hour and 50 minutes a New Yorker is infected with HIV. In an effort to avert further HIV infections the AIDS Institute’s Clinical Education Initiative’s PEP Center developed the CEI Widget
On Friday, May 14, 2010, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) will hold a community meeting to provide an update and gain additional recommendations for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). For those who cannot attend the meeting in person, ONAP will hold a conference call shortly after the meeting to discuss the strategy.
In the United Kingdom, one in twelve HIV diagnoses are of a person over the age of 50. Whilst rates of late diagnosis are high in older adults, just under half of these diagnoses are thought to be of an infection that was acquired when the person was over the age of 50.
It is feasible to recruit and retain methamphetamine-dependent gay men in a pharmacologic drug-treatment programme, US investigators report in the April 24th edition of AIDS.
Lifestyle and social factors need to be addressed if the full potential of HIV treatment to lower mortality is to be realised, according to results from a large cohort study published in the May 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
New research shows that Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) continues to dramatically reduce rates of mortality from HIV infection in high-income countries, such that non-AIDS-related deaths exceed AIDS deaths after approximately four years of taking ART…
Residents of the Maryland and Virginia suburbs account for nearly half of AIDS cases in the Washington, D.C., area, but suburban governments lag behind the district in efforts to slow the spread of the disease, according to a study released Tuesday by the Washington AIDS Partnership, the Washington Post reports…
South African President Jacob Zuma on Sunday launched a national HIV/AIDS treatment, testing and prevention campaign, which United Nations officials are calling the largest and quickest expansion of HIV/AIDS services a nation has ever attempted, the New York Times reports. South Africa has the highest number of HIV-positive residents in the world at an estimated 5.7 million…
Barely a twentieth of the estimated $3.2 billion needed is put into preventing drug users spreading the AIDS virus, experts said on Monday, and the shortfall is fuelling HIV epidemics in parts of Europe and Asia. In a report on the use of “harm reduction” measures like clean needle exchanges and safer drug substitutes, the experts found that in countries which fail to take prevention steps, dru…
NEW: Single Pill Combo Moves Forward – Gilead Sciences announced April 27 that a combination pill containing rilpivirine (TMC278) and Truvada (tenofovir plus emtricitabine) achieves the same blood levels of both drugs as when the medications are dosed separately and will move forward for development.
A bill that would help thousands of HIV-positive New Yorkers afford housing passed the State Senate on April 27, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office is urging Governor David Paterson to veto the bill, The New York Times reports.
Nushawn Williams, an HIV-positive Brooklyn man, recently completed a 12-year prison sentence for statutory rape and reckless endangerment for transmitting HIV to at least 13 women. But New York State wants to keep him locked up indefinitely under a civil law meant to keep dangerous criminals off the street even after they’ve served time, The Associated Press reports.
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