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The search for a cure
UD-led team develops mathematical model to measure hidden HIV

UD assistant professor Ryan Zurakowski has reported a new modeling technique that reveals HIV may be replicating in the body even when undetectable in the blood.

Published
08 May 2013
From
University of Delaware Daily
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Blackmail, violence and stigma restrict access to sexual health services for gay men, Global Health and Rights Study reports

The Global Forum for MSM and HIV has released an analysis of its 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights Study (GMHRS) concentrating on young men under 30 who

Published
01 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Treatment guidelines
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Applauds WHO Decision to Initiate HIV Treatment Earlier

World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week at Treatment as Prevention conference in Vancouver, Canada, that it will raise treatment initiation guidelines for HIV-positive individuals from a CD4 count of less than 350 to a count of less than 500.

Published
25 April 2013
From
Wall Street Journal
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Cellphone microscopes: a how-to guide

Tiny microscopes that can be fitted onto any mobile phone with a camera and used to diagnose illnesses in remote areas may have the potential to revolutionise healthcare in developing world.

Published
16 April 2013
From
SciDevNet
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Cheap and quick HIV testing made possible with DVD scanners

Thanks to USB sticks and video streaming, DVD players are becoming all but obsolete. But their cheap optics may find a new life in a cost-effective and speedy technique for on-the-spot HIV testing and other analytics.

Published
11 April 2013
From
Phys.Org
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Viral load in genital secretions differs between men and women undergoing HIV therapy

The female genital tract appears to be a 'reservoir' for ongoing HIV replication, even during effective antiretroviral therapy, an international team of investigators report in Clinical

Published
11 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
Viral load
Point-of-care viral load testing potentially cost-effective in southern Africa

Routine point-of-care viral load (POC-VL) tests with detection limits of 1000 copies/ml or below will minimise unnecessary treatment changes and improve the cost-effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART)

Published
28 March 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Resistance
Computer models predict how patients will respond to HIV drugs

Results of a new study demonstrate that computer models can predict how HIV patients whose drug therapy is failing will respond to a new treatment. Crucially for patients in poorer countries, the models do not require the results of expensive drug resistance tests to make their predictions. The study also showed that the models were able to identify alternative drug combinations that were predicted to work in cases where the treatment used in the clinic had failed, suggesting that their use could avoid treatment failure.

Published
14 March 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Routine viral load monitoring almost halves risk of virologic failure in 18-month Kenyan study

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

Published
12 March 2013
By
Lesley Odendal
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
MSF research points to ways to expand viral load testing in developing countries

At the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presented data today on strategies to reduce the costs and complexity of rolling out routine viral load monitoring in developing countries.

Published
07 March 2013
From
Médecins Sans Frontières press release
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