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PrEP
Majority of Italian HIV specialists would prescribe PrEP

Seventy per cent of Italian HIV specialists who answered an online survey would prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to people in their care who ask for it, at least

Published
8 hours ago
By
Gus Cairns
Contraception
HPTN researchers: Don’t forget family planning in HIV prevention

“Unless family planning is increased in Africa, eliminating mother-to-child transmission will not be met,” FHI 360 President Emeritus Ward Cates said.

Published
20 May 2013
From
Science Speaks
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Swazis in new HIV treatment trials

Swaziland, with the world’s highest incidence of HIV, is embarking on pilot projects to offer treatment to all people who are HIV-positive, irrespective of their CD4 count. The studies will investigate if the use of ‘treatment for prevention’ could reduce new HIV infections among Swa-zis. The new approach is called ‘Treat All.’

Published
13 May 2013
From
Times of Swaziland
HIV prevention policy
Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

Published
13 May 2013
From
Radio Australia
HIV treatment in children
US FDA approves Bristol-Myers' sNDA for Sustiva in HIV-1 infected paediatric patients

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Bristol-Myers Squibb Company's supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for Sustiva (efavirenz), including dosing recommendations for HIV-1 infected paediatric patients three months to three years old and weighing at least 3.5 kg. This approval offers a once-daily option as part of a regimen for this population and includes a “capsule sprinkle” administration method for patients who cannot swallow capsules or tablets.

Published
07 May 2013
From
Pharmabiz
HIV in children
Maternal abacavir, smoking tied to heart markers in HIV-exposed kids

HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU) children of HIV-positive mothers who took abacavir, smoked, or drank alcohol had elevated levels of cardiac biomarkers that could signal heart trouble, according to analysis of the US Pediatric HIVAIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). The study also linked cardiac biomarkers to some echocardiographic abnormalities.

Published
07 May 2013
From
International AIDS Society
HIV treatment in children
Patients in Control: Protest action in Russia - the lives of HIV-positive children are not profitable for distributors

A protest action organized by activists of "Patients in Control" took place in Moscow in front of the office of the largest distributor of ARV medications in Russia ("R-Pharm"). The activists were outraged about the fact that around 20 auctions for antiretrovirals in different regions did not take place because no bids were submitted; half of those tenders were for paediatric formulations.

Published
03 May 2013
From
EATG
HIV in children
Anti-HIV therapy appears to protect children's hearts, NIH network study shows

For children who have had HIV-1 infection since birth, the combination drug therapies now used to treat HIV appear to protect against the heart damage seen before combination therapies were available, according to researchers.

Published
23 April 2013
From
National Institutes of Health (press release)
Infant feeding
For African women in the UK, formula feeding has a high social and personal cost

Although most African women living with HIV in the UK do comply with medical recommendations to avoid breastfeeding, doing so comes at a high social and personal

Published
23 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Infant feeding
Strong impact of weaning on HIV levels in breastmilk: Lusaka study

HIV RNA and DNA levels in breast milk rose more than 10-fold in response to changes in frequency of infant feeding around the time of weaning, according to results of a 958-woman trial in Lusaka, Zambia. The findings have implications for breastfeeding advice and for maternal antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the full duration of breastfeeding.

Published
22 April 2013
From
International AIDS Society
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