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Gene therapy studies show potential for HIV control without drugs

The search for a cure
Gus Cairns | 13 March 2013
Gene therapy approaches that involve the genetic modification of human haematopoietic stem cells have the potental to engineer HIV control by introducing cells resistant to HIV infection, the 20th ...
Adding telaprevir improves acute hepatitis C treatment for HIV-positive men

New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Liz Highleyman | 12 March 2013
Adding telaprevir (Incivo or Incivek) to pegylated interferon and ribavirin shortens the duration of treatment and increases the likelihood of a cure for HIV-positive men with acute sexually transmitted hepatitis C virus ...
Simeprevir & sofosbuvir demonstrates good early cure rate with or without ribavirin

New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Liz Highleyman | 12 March 2013
An all-oral combination of simeprevir plus sofosbuvir, with or without ribavirin, led to an early cure for most hard-to-treat prior null responders with genotype 1 hepatitis C studied in the phase 2a COSMOS ...
Malawi achieves seven-fold increase in ART for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Carole Leach-Lemens | 12 March 2013
Eighteen months after implementation of 'Option B+' in Malawi – ART for life for all HIV-infected, pregnant or breastfeeding women regardless of CD4 count or disease stage – the number of HIV-infected ...
Routine viral load monitoring almost halves risk of virologic failure in 18-month Kenyan study

Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Lesley Odendal | 12 March 2013
Six-monthly viral load testing of patients taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) at primary health clinics in rural Kenya reduced the risk of virologic failure at 18 months of follow-up by 46%, according to ...
Faldaprevir ups interferon response in HIV/HCV co-infection

New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Liz Highleyman | 11 March 2013
Adding the hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor faldaprevir (formerly BI 201335) to pegylated interferon and ribavirin led to a higher early response rate and the potential for shorter treatment for HIV/HCV co-infected ...
Simeprevir pushes HCV cure rate above 75% for HIV/HCV co-infection

New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
Liz Highleyman | 11 March 2013
Adding the new hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor simeprevir (formerly TMC435) to pegylated interferon and ribavirin cures about three-quarters of HIV/HCV co-infected people, most of them with a shortened course of therapy, ...
Contraceptive injections and HIV infection risk – a public health conundrum

Contraception
Roger Pebody | 10 March 2013
The concerns about a possible increase in risk of HIV acquisition with some hormonal contraceptive methods need to be understood in the context of the substantial uncertainties in the body ...
New integrase inhibitor dolutegravir helps treatment-experienced people on failing therapy

Treatment-experienced people
Liz Highleyman | 10 March 2013
The next-generation integrase inhibitor dolutegravir proved more beneficial than raltegravir (Isentress) for treatment-experienced people with resistance to two or more antiretroviral drug classes, researchers reported in a poster presented at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and ...
Second-line NRTI-sparing regimen proves equally effective for resource-limited settings

Changing treatment
Keith Alcorn | 07 March 2013
A second-line antiretroviral regimen of lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra/Aluvia) and raltegravir (Isentress) proved just as effective as a regimen containing lopinavir/ritonavir and two or three nucleoside or nucleotide analogues in large study conducted in Australia, ...

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Kenya condom advert pulled after religious complaints

BBC | 21 hours ago

A TV advertisement promoting condom use in Kenya has been withdrawn after an outcry by religious leaders, health official Peter Cherutich has said. Christian and Muslim clerics said the advert encouraged infidelity, rather than safe sex to curb HIV/Aids.
Young people

COLORADO: Abstinence Added to Sex-ed Legislation by State Senators: House Needs To Reconsider the Bill

CDC National Prevention Information Network | 21 hours ago

The Colorado Senate sent House Bill 13-1081, a bill designed to update standards for sex education in Colorado schools, back to the state House of Representatives for additional consideration, after adding requirements that sex education programs emphasize abstinence.
Finance and funding

Congress Cuts Funding For State ADAP Programs

Pharmalot | 22 hours ago

The failure of a US Senate spending bill to include $35 million in funding for HIV medications will jeopardize the ability of state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs to offer prescription drugs to nearly 8,000 low-income people living with the virus, according to patient advocates.
Malaria

Follow-up study describes declining efficacy of malaria vaccine candidate over 4 years

Eurekalert Inf Dis | 22 hours ago

Long-term follow-up of a phase II study from KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and Oxford University researchers in Kenya shows that the efficacy of a malaria vaccine candidate, RTS,S, wanes over time and varies with exposure to the malaria parasite.
Tuberculosis and HIV

Advocates See Historic Chance to Turn Tide on TB

Inter Press Service | 23 hours ago

Patients, doctors and international aid groups are calling on donors and governments to support measures that would make treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis more effective and accessible.
UNAIDS calls for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB

UNAIDS | 20 March 2013

UNAIDS is calling for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB. This means that HIV and TB systems should be fully integrated, every person living with HIV is tested for TB and that every person with TB is offered an HIV test, and people with TB who are HIV-positive are started on antiretroviral treatment immediately.
HIV and criminal law

Greece: Last five HIV+ women arrested in police sweep operation released

Union Solidarity International | 20 March 2013

The HIV-positive women who were imprisoned and exposed publicly in Greece in an unprecedented HIV criminalization case are now all free.
UK health services

In the new NHS lawyers, not GPs, will be in the driving seat

The Guardian | 20 March 2013

With less than two weeks to go before clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) take responsibility for almost all our healthcare, they still don't know officially whether they will be free to go on commissioning work from NHS hospitals, or whether they will be forced to open it up to private providers.
Epidemiology and behaviour

Nearly one in ten S.African soldiers has HIV/AIDS: army

Global Post | 20 March 2013

The South African army Tuesday said 8.5 percent of the country's 79,200 soldiers have HIV/AIDS, angrily dismissing claims of a higher prevalence rate.
HIV prevention policy

US porn filmmaker sued over condom rule

Herald Sun | 20 March 2013

AN AIDS support group has announced legal action against a US porn film company for allegedly failing to enforce a new Los Angeles law requiring actors to wear condoms while on set.

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Gene therapy studies show potential for HIV control without drugs

Adding telaprevir improves acute hepatitis C treatment for HIV-positive men

Simeprevir & sofosbuvir demonstrates good early cure rate with or without ribavirin

Malawi achieves seven-fold increase in ART for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Routine viral load monitoring almost halves risk of virologic failure in 18-month Kenyan study

Faldaprevir ups interferon response in HIV/HCV co-infection

Simeprevir pushes HCV cure rate above 75% for HIV/HCV co-infection

Contraceptive injections and HIV infection risk – a public health conundrum

New integrase inhibitor dolutegravir helps treatment-experienced people on failing therapy

Second-line NRTI-sparing regimen proves equally effective for resource-limited settings

Healthy old age with HIV

Starting ART in people with TB and HIV

The generic generation

Combination TB prevention

The new activism

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Kenya condom advert pulled after religious complaints

COLORADO: Abstinence Added to Sex-ed Legislation by State Senators: House Needs To Reconsider the Bill

Congress Cuts Funding For State ADAP Programs

Follow-up study describes declining efficacy of malaria vaccine candidate over 4 years

Advocates See Historic Chance to Turn Tide on TB

UNAIDS calls for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB

Greece: Last five HIV+ women arrested in police sweep operation released

In the new NHS lawyers, not GPs, will be in the driving seat

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