Home

aidsmap HIV & AIDS news

• People doing well on HIV therapy "should be eligible" for life insurance cover

  New Money, benefits and housing
  Michael Carter | 10 hours ago

  The long-term effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy means that many HIV-positive people should be eligible for affordable life insurance, European investigators write in the online edition of AIDS. Even though HIV-positive people doing well on ...

• Self-testing and home treatment initiation triples uptake of HIV treatment in Malawi

  Retention and linkage to care
  Keith Alcorn | 21 March 2013

  Offering people the opportunity to self-test at home and then start antiretroviral therapy after counselling at home, together with home delivery of antiretroviral drugs, increased the number of people linked to care after ...

• Routine tests prompted by electronic patient records increase rates of STI diagnoses among HIV-positive people in London

  Sexually transmitted infections
  Michael Carter | 21 March 2013

  The implementation of systematic, frequent and routine screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) led to a significant increase in the number of infections detected among HIV-positive people in London, investigators report in HIV Medicine. ...

• Sofosbuvir plus ribavirin works well for hard-to-treat inner-city hepatitis C patients

  New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
  Liz Highleyman | 20 March 2013

  A simple 24-week oral regimen consisting of sofosbuvir plus full-dose ribavirin cured nearly 70% of previously untreated people with genotype 1 hepatitis C, many of whom had factors predictive of poor response, researchers reported ...

• AbbVie interferon-free combinations cure most newly treated hepatitis C patients

  New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
  Liz Highleyman | 20 March 2013

  All-oral regimens consisting of the HCV protease inhibitor ABT-450, a non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor and ribavirin led to sustained response for more than 90% of previously untreated hepatitis  C patients – including those ...

• Lukewarm reaction to government’s sexual health framework for England

  HIV prevention policy
  Roger Pebody | 19 March 2013

  Just two weeks before local authorities take over the commissioning of sexual health services – and twelve years since a sexual health strategy was last published – the Department of Health has ...

• HIV increases the risk of heart attack, even in people with a suppressed viral load

  Cardiovascular disease
  Michael Carter | 19 March 2013

  Infection with HIV is associated with an increased risk of heart attack, investigators from the United States report in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine. Importantly, this finding was based ...