Epidemiology

Epidemiology features

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  The whether forecast: HIV services in the cutback era

  Some HIV experts are wondering not what our services will look like in the future but in some areas, whether there will be any HIV-specific services at all....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  HIV - the recession bites

  On 15th September, a man dressed as a bear was being tugged around Red Square in Moscow on a leash by three blonde ‘naughty nurses’. Promoting a...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  How can we afford to treat HIV?

  One of the dominant themes at the recent International AIDS Conference in Vienna was how to maintain the momentum towards universal HIV treatment access in the context...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  HIV prevalence among South African MSM twice as high as general population

  Prevalence among MSM in South Africa....

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Will the money drain out of AIDS?

  Earlier this year, on 25 February, the government of Botswana announced that if the global recession continued, it would have to freeze the provision of treatment for its...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  The consequences of fear

  How the myth of ‘health tourism’ is harming people with HIV, by Edwin J Bernard ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Lowering the threshold — Is there a case for re-evaluating eligibility criteria for ART?

  Review of the evidence for and against earlier antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings....

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

Epidemiology news from aidsmap

• Up to a third of HIV infections in European gay men may have come from another country

  A study (Frentz) that looked at genetic similarities in the HIV from recently diagnosed people in 24 European countries found that among ‘clusters’ of closely related viruses (which indicate networks of transmission), a quarter of people who were ...

  10 May 2013 | Gus Cairns

• Treating everyone diagnosed would not end HIV in US gay men, Los Angeles-based model finds

  Increasing HIV testing frequency, and giving everyone antiretroviral therapy (ART), would not in themselves reduce HIV prevalence in US gay men, a mathematical model suggests. These measures would produce, in the model’s baseline scenario, a 34% reduction in the cumulative ...

  11 April 2013 | Gus Cairns

• HIV incidence in gay men unchanged in England and Wales, despite more testing

  A paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by scientists from the UK’s Medical Research Council and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has calculated that the number of gay men in England and Wales who become infected with ...

  04 February 2013 | Gus Cairns

• Hospital exposure the source of XDR-TB infections, underlining the need for adequate infection control

  Numerous hospital transmissions – rather than a single source – fuelled the outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) at Tugela Ferry, South Africa, in 2005-06, research published in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases shows. Epidemiological ...

  30 January 2013 | Michael Carter

• Health Protection Agency reports highest number of HIV diagnoses ever among gay and bisexual men in 2011

  New figures from the Health Protection Agency released today show that although the total number of HIV diagnoses in the United Kingdom fell in 2011, new HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men have never been higher, rising by ...

  23 October 2012 | Keith Alcorn

• UNAIDS: Africans with HIV more likely to get ARVs than Eastern Europeans

  UNAIDS says that international efforts are on target to deliver antiretroviral treatment to 15 million people by 2015, but people eligible for treatment are much more likely to be getting antiretroviral drugs in sub-Saharan Africa compared to Eastern Europe ...

  18 July 2012 | Keith Alcorn

• Hepatitis B is a major health issue for migrants in the US

  Between 1.04 million and 1.61 million migrants now resident in the US have chronic hepatitis B infection, investigators report in the online edition of Hepatology.  “The finding that as many as 1.6 million foreign born individuals in the ...

  07 June 2012 | Michael Carter

• Treatment as prevention is starting to work in parts of Africa

  A longitudinal study from KwaZulu Natal province in South Africa is the first study from the global south to relate an increase in the proportion of adults on HIV treatment to a fall in HIV incidence, the 19th Conference on ...

  18 March 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Life expectancy for people with HIV in Africa may be comparable to general population if they are on treatment

  Life expectancy for HIV-positive adults starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Uganda is comparable to life expectancy for all Ugandan adults. This was reported by Edward J Mills and colleagues in a prospective cohort study of over 22,000 adults who started ...

  18 July 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Rome IAS conference is 'landmark moment' for HIV science, say experts

  The Sixth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) opened on Sunday night in Rome amid great excitement, with scientific leaders proclaiming that the conference will be a landmark moment in ...

  17 July 2011 | Keith Alcorn

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Epidemiology news selected from other sources

• More than 7 million people now on HIV treatment across Africa

  As the African Union (AU) begins its 21st summit in Addis Ababa, celebrating 50 years of African unity, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has released Update a new report on the AIDS response in Africa, documenting the remarkable recent progress against HIV on the continent.

  22 May 2013 | UNAIDS

• HIV epidemiology in London: 2011 data

  New publication: In 2011 there were over 2,600 new HIV diagnoses made in London clinics. Despite a decline in new HIV diagnoses since 2004, which may reflect changing patterns in migration, the number of new HIV diagnoses reported in 2011 was 11% higher than in 2000.

  20 May 2013 | Public Health England

• Egypt has one of the lowest HIV rates: Health and population ministry

  Dr Ihab Ahmed Abdel Rahman, manager of the National AIDS Programme (NAP) at the Ministry of Health and Population stressed that Egypt has one of the lowest rates of HIV infections in the world, not exceeding 0.02 per cent.

  01 May 2013 | Ahram Online

• Ghana reduces HIV infection by 66% in ten years – GAC

  She said the significant decrease had made the country the highest reduction of HIV infection in West and Central Africa adding that the AIDS in the country had reduced by over 30 per cent.

  12 April 2013 | Myjoyonline.com

• Less South Africans Dying of HIV/Aids, but More of Diabetes

  Government's annual death report has confirmed the trend that less South Africans have been dying of HIV/AIDS-related diseases. However, more people are dying of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. ...

  11 April 2013 | AllAfrica.com

• CHINA: AIDS Top Source of Death From Infectious Disease in China in 2012

  According to a report released last month by the official Xinhua news agency that draws from official Chinese Ministry of Health statistics, AIDS cases topped the list for cause of death by infectious disease in the country in 2012, with 11,575 cases. TB was the second most frequent, with 2,662 cases. Viral hepatitis also was among the top six, coming in at fourth highest with 747 cases.

  11 April 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network

• Number of China students with HIV up 24.5 percent in 2012

  The number of Chinese students infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the cause of AIDS, showed a year-on-year hike of 24.5 percent in 2012, with sex between men the chief cause of the new infections, the Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

  02 April 2013 | GlobalPost

• HIV/AIDS, TB rates sap Russian health

  Russia considers itself a robust member of the global community, keeping pace with heavyweights such as the United States and China. But when it comes to health, the world’s largest country is more in the company of Botswana.

  29 March 2013 | Washington Post

• EU in "denial" that sick economy costs lives, health experts say

  Europe's financial crisis is costing lives, with suicides and infectious disease, including HIV and even malaria, on the rise, yet politicians are not addressing the problem, health experts said on Wednesday in a study published in the Lancet.

  28 March 2013 | Reuters

• The Shifting Sands of HIV Risk in the US Today: Falling in Women, Rising in Young MSM

  I have come to recognize the situation of HIV risk among young black MSM in the United States as not unlike the heterosexual spread of HIV infection among young women in Africa, in which girls 13-16 years of age acquire HIV infection from older, male partners.

  12 March 2013 | Clinical Care Options

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