<p></p> http://www.aidsmap.com/CROI-2009-news/page/1284757/ en-gb NAM Publications - 2012 Sat, 26 May 2012 11:59:58 GMT Sat, 26 May 2012 11:59:58 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ When the male partner of a pregnant woman attends antenatal clinic visits with her and gets tested for HIV, there appears to be a reduced risk of HIV transmission to their infant and increased survival in the child according to a Kenyan study presented at IAS 2009 in Cape Town http://www.aidsmap.com/Male-partner-clinic-attendance-and-HIV-testing-associated-with-better-outcomes-for-infants-born-to-HIV-positive-mothers/page/1435316/ Conferences CROI 2009 Kenya Outcomes and prognosis South Africa Theo Smart http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1435316/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT Two posters, one from Europe and one from the USA, presented at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Montreal, found that people of African descent with HIV have slower CD4 declines and progress more slowly to AIDS compared with people of European descent. The European researchers http://www.aidsmap.com/Africans-and-African-Americans-progress-to-AIDS-more-slowly-strong-association-with-hepatitis-B/page/1433794/ Conferences CROI 2009 Epidemiology Gus Cairns http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433794/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:00:00 GMT Lower levels of beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol - but not of harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) - were associated with cardiovascular disease in the SMART treatment interruption study, researchers reported on February 11th at the Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Montreal, Canada. SMART was a large international http://www.aidsmap.com/Low-HDL-cholesterol-linked-to-cardiovascular-disease-in-people-with-HIV/page/1433730/ Canada Conferences CROI 2009 Liz Highleyman http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433730/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:00:00 GMT Antiretroviral therapy - but not treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection - was associated with significantly improved survival in HIV/HCV co-infected individuals with liver cirrhosis, researchers reported on February 10th at the Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Montreal, Canada. Maria Luisa Montes from Hospital Universitario http://www.aidsmap.com/Continuous-antiretroviral-therapy-improves-survival-in-HIVhepatitis-C-co-infected-patients-with-liver-cirrhosis/page/1433733/ Canada Conferences CROI 2009 Hepatitis and HIV Spain Liz Highleyman http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433733/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:00:00 GMT A high level of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the blood is associated with an increased risk of death in HIV/HCV co-infected individuals, according to data presented on February 10th at the Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Montreal, Canada. Jürgen Rockstroh from the University of Bonn, Germany, presented http://www.aidsmap.com/High-hepatitis-C-viral-load-increases-risk-of-death-in-HIVHCV-co-infected-patients/page/1433693/ Canada Conferences CROI 2009 Germany Hepatitis and HIV Liz Highleyman http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433693/ Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:00:00 GMT HIV continues to be released in small amounts from "reservoir" sites in the body despite suppressive antiretroviral therapy, and adding more drugs has not succeeded in eradicating the virus, researchers reported at the Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Montreal last month. HIV persistence and treatment intensification were themes http://www.aidsmap.com/Treatment-intensification-does-not-eliminate-HIV-in-reservoir-sites/page/1433696/ Conferences CROI 2009 France How HIV works Spain Sweden Liz Highleyman http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433696/ Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:00:00 GMT Switching people to second-line antiretroviral treatment on the basis of CD4 declines, without information from viral load tests, could result in a large numbers of unnecessary switches to more expensive second-line regimens in resource-limited settings, a study in Uganda has found. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University Medical School and the Rakai http://www.aidsmap.com/Treatment-switches-on-basis-of-CD4-declines-often-unnecessary-Uganda-research-shows/page/1433593/ Conferences CROI 2009 Uganda Keith Alcorn http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433593/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:00:00 GMT Starting antiretroviral therapy earlier, before the development of symptoms, is the most likely way to reduce the high death rates after treatment initiation seen in people with HIV in resource-limited settings, two large cohort analyses show. The studies also show that the major disadvantage of starting treatment late – an http://www.aidsmap.com/Disadvantage-of-late-treatment-start-in-Africa-may-persist-for-years-studies-find/page/1433580/ Conferences CROI 2009 HIV treatment Malawi South Africa Starting treatment Zimbabwe Keith Alcorn http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433580/ Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:00:00 GMT Several posters at the Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Montreal examined the rise in sexually transmitted hepatitis C in gay men with HIV, each highlighting different aspects of this new epidemic. Risk behaviour was compared between New York and the UK; researchers documented an apparently separate and http://www.aidsmap.com/Hepatitis-C-in-HIV-positive-gay-men-Amsterdam-Paris-New-York-and-UK-compared/page/1433569/ Conferences CROI 2009 France Hepatitis and HIV Mexico Gus Cairns http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433569/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:00:00 GMT Previous analyses, including a cohort study in Kenya and secondary results from a randomised controlled trial in Zambia, have suggested that hormonal contraception may accelerate HIV disease progression in women not yet on antiretroviral treatment (ART). However, an analysis of a cohort of over 4500 women across multiple sites in http://www.aidsmap.com/Hormonal-contraception-does-not-affect-HIV-progression-in-large-international-cohort/page/1433576/ Conferences Contraception CROI 2009 Kenya Outcomes and prognosis Thailand Treatment for women Zambia Derek Thaczuk http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1433576/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:00:00 GMT