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Antiretroviral treatment interruptions of
48 hours or more are associated with the emergence of resistant strains of HIV
in the female genital tract, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndromes.
The study ...
18 hours ago | Michael Carter
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Antiretroviral therapy
is associated with a reduced incidence of pre-cancerous cervical lesions in
HIV-positive women, South African investigators report in the online edition
of AIDS. Their study also showed that
HIV therapy was associated with a regression of pre-existing lesions. ...
10 May 2012 | Michael Carter
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Half the female patients at the HIV clinic in Homerton
Hospital, east London, have suffered intimate partner violence, Dr Rageshri
Dhairyawan told the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in Birmingham yesterday.
One in seven had experienced it in the ...
19 April 2012 | Roger Pebody
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Two
studies presented at the International Microbicides Conference this week
failed to completely dispel the association between injectable
contraceptives and an increased risk of acquiring HIV.
The
field of HIV prevention was thrown into confusion last year when a
large international study
found ...
18 April 2012 | Gus Cairns
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Neither rectal douching nor vaginal
washing appears to be as significantly associated with sexually transmitted
infections or other microbial conditions that increase the risk of HIV, as had
been feared, the International Microbicides Conference heard yesterday.
In the case of ...
18 April 2012 | Gus Cairns
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A
requirement that all participants take hormonal contraceptives may
have been what led to the disappointing failure of a study of
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) targeted at single women, the International Microbicides Conference in Sydney was told today.
The FEM-PrEP study ...
16 April 2012 | Gus Cairns
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibody levels are
associated with some important markers of vascular disease in HIV-positive
women, US researchers show in a study published in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
"Our findings suggest that CMV ...
16 April 2012 | Michael Carter
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Antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy is
associated with an increased risk of premature delivery, French researchers
report in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The large study showed that treatment with a ritonavir-boosted protease
inhibitor was especially associated with prematurity.
“Our findings suggest a ...
10 April 2012 | Michael Carter
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Two studies of people with HIV
in Rakai, Uganda and Mombasa, Kenya presented at the 19th Conference on
Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections show that the rate at which they
acquired second, subsequent strains of HIV was about the same ...
10 March 2012 | Gus Cairns
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Adherence makes all the difference to the efficacy of
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) heard
today.
Further data were presented from two trials of PrEP (giving anti-HIV
drugs to HIV-negative people to prevent ...
06 March 2012 | Gus Cairns
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