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• Small risk of sexual transmission of HIV persists through first six months of ART

  New Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
  Michael Carter | 7 hours ago

  A risk of HIV transmission to sexual partners persists for six months after the initiation of antiretroviral therapy, investigators from a large prospective prevention study confirm in the online edition of the ...

• US on course to end its HIV epidemic – eventually

  Epidemiology
  Gus Cairns | 09 May 2016

  If current trends continue, the US may eventually end its HIV epidemic, a mathematical model recently published in AIDS & Behaviour shows. In 2009, the average number of people each person with ...

• HCV associated with increased risk of cancers of the head and neck

  Cancer
  Michael Carter | 09 May 2016

  Infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is associated with an increased risk of head and neck cancer (HNCs), investigators from the United States report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The ...

• Hepatitis C kills more people than any other infectious disease in US, CDC says

  Hepatitis C treatment
  Liz Highleyman | 06 May 2016

  The number of deaths due to hepatitis C is at an all-time high in the US and exceeds those attributable to 60 other infectious diseases including HIV and tuberculosis, according to new ...

• Hepatitis C therapy improves quality of life for people who inject drugs, but reinfection risk remains

  Hepatitis C treatment
  Keith Alcorn | 06 May 2016

  People on opiate substitution therapy can be successfully treated with grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier), leading to improvements in some aspects of quality of life, according to findings from the C-EDGE CO-STAR study presented at ...

• High prevalence of geriatric conditions in HIV-positive patients aged over 50 in San Francisco

  Ageing and HIV
  Michael Carter | 05 May 2016

  Older HIV-positive patients have a high prevalence of multiple age-related problems, investigators from the United States report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The research involved ...

• China has a long way to go before it achieves 90-90-90 targets

  Achieving the 90-90-90 target
  Michael Carter | 04 May 2016

  A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that China has a long way to go before it achieves UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. Research conducted in Shandong Province showed that only 60% of people with ...