Viral load

Viral load features

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  Do HIV drugs really mean you aren’t infectious?

  Gus Cairns looks at new research on this controversial subject. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Defining, and then watching for, treatment failure

  A review of various clinical, immunological and virological definitions of antiretroviral treatment failure in resource-limited settings....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Cheap viral load test is urgently needed for resource-poor settings, say treatment advocates

  Review of evidence on the need for viral load testing to guide antiretroviral treatment switching in resource-limited settings....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Monitoring antiretroviral treatment with limited laboratory services

  How can HIV treatment be monitored in settings with limited laboratory capacity, and how can treatment failure be identified without viral load testing?...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

Viral load news from aidsmap

• HIV infection is an independent risk factor for stroke

  HIV infection is associated with an increased risk of stroke, US research published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes shows. The association between HIV and stroke was significant even after controlling for traditional ...

  18 May 2012 | Michael Carter

• Many men with undetectable HIV in blood still have low levels in their semen, studies find

  A study of 101 gay men at the Fenway Health HIV clinic in Boston, USA (Politch) has found that a quarter of men with undetectable viral loads in their blood nonetheless had detectable HIV in their ...

  02 April 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Is a viral load just below 50 copies/ml low enough to ensure the long-term success of HIV therapy?

  Suppressing viral load to below 50 copies/ml may not be enough to ensure the long-term success of antiretroviral therapy, according to a UK study published in the March edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Using ultra-sensitive viral load assays, ...

  16 January 2012 | Michael Carter

• Low HIV viral load doesn't cause inflammation or increase the risk of death

  Low level viral load does not increase inflammation or the risk of death, US investigators report in the online journal PloS One. The investigators had hypothesised that a low viral load would be linked with important markers of inflammation ...

  08 November 2011 | Michael Carter

• Swiss show that concerns about potency of HIV therapy in context of non-subtype B infections are unfounded

  Patients infected with non-B HIV subtypes have virological outcomes which are at least as good – if not better – than those seen in patients with subtype B infection, Swiss investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious ...

  25 October 2011 | Michael Carter

• 'High viral load' should mean over half a million copies, not over 100,000, Rome study suggests

  A study by the University of Rome has found that a substantial proportion of patients with HIV are being diagnosed with viral loads of over half a million copies/ml, and it is these patients who are at raised risk ...

  24 October 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Missed appointments in early years of HIV care associated with longer time to HIV suppression and higher cumulative viral load

  Patients who miss clinic appointments in the two years after they enter HIV care take longer to suppress their viral load to undetectable levels and also have a higher cumulative viral load than patients with high levels of appointment ...

  28 September 2011 | Michael Carter

• Cumulative viral load: an important measure of risk of death in patients with HIV

  Cumulative viral load - the total amount of viral replication measured over a long period - is associated with the risk of death for patients with HIV, US research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious ...

  12 September 2011 | Michael Carter

• Low but detectable viral load during HIV treatment involves a risk of resistance

  Drug resistance frequently develops in patients who have a persistent low detectable viral load when taking HIV therapy, US investigators report in the August 15th edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Treatment guidelines which set the bar ...

  02 August 2011 | Michael Carter

• Confirmatory viral load reduces HIV treatment switches fourfold in 6-country African study

  Targeted viral load testing to confirm treatment failure reduced unnecessary treatment regimen switches four-fold compared to clinical-immunological criteria alone (viral load <1000 copies/ml 12.4% and 46.9%, p<0.001, respectively) among 250 patients in six African countries according to Kim C.E. Sigaloff ...

  06 July 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

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Viral load news selected from other sources

• HIV treatment outcomes poorer in adolescents and young adults

  Adolescents and young adults appear less likely to benefit from antiretroviral therapy compared with adults.

  11 August 2011 | AIDSmeds.com

• Supreme Court Rules for a Drug Firm in Patent Dispute

  The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a drug company over Stanford University in a patent dispute concerning a test to measure the amount of HIV in a patient's blood.

  06 June 2011 | New York Times

• Cepheid and FIND Announce Collaboration to Develop HIV Viral Load Test

  The Xpert® HIV viral load test, which will run on Cepheid's GeneXpert® platform, is expected to complement the ground-breaking Xpert MTB/RIF test for tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistance.

  03 February 2011 | PR Newswire

• Supreme Court caution to Indian Govt on second line treatment

  The Supreme Court today cautioned the government against abdicating its constitutional duty of providing treatment to HIV positive patients on grounds of financial constraint saying it involves the right to life.

  13 December 2010 | Yahoo News India

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