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Viet Nam first to pilot the latest generation of HIV treatment

Viet Nam is taking the lead in universal access to comprehensive HIV services by being the first country to pilot Treatment 2.0 - a new generation of HIV treatment that radically decreases AIDS-related deaths and helps to prevent HIV.

Published
19 May 2011
From
Viet Nam News
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Still No Reason to Stall Male Circumcision, Forget the HIV Vaccine or Throw Away Your Condoms

It takes more than this confirmatory experimental trial of treatment as prevention to argue that prevention resources should be re-allocated towards treatment.  Modeling shows that even if people start treatment when their CD4 count is 500, as they did in this trial, and then faithfully adhere to their daily dose for their entire lives, the future burden of the epidemic continues to rise until 2046.

Published
18 May 2011
From
Center for Global Development
Treatment as prevention
ARVs as prevention must move quickly "from science to action"

A landmark study showing major reductions in HIV transmission among discordant couples due to early treatment may fail to have a significant impact on HIV prevention unless governments and donors are willing to turn the science into action, HIV advocates say.

Published
13 May 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Treatment as prevention works: randomised study shuts 3 years early after showing 96% reduction in risk of transmission

A large randomised study of treatment as prevention has closed more than three years early after interim analysis of the data showed that antiretroviral treatment reduced the

Published
12 May 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV continues retreat in San Francisco

Health officials believe a variety of factors are leading to the continued downward trend: sero-sorting, early initiation of treatment and changing migration patterns.

Published
24 March 2011
From
Bay Area Reporter
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
HIV Transmission Still Possible After 12 Months of HAART

A modeling study based on viral load data from more than 1000 HIV-positive people receiving HAART suggests that the probability of HIV transmission is low, but not 0, after a 12-month HAART regimen.

Published
15 March 2011
From
Medscape Medical News
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Is treatment really reducing infections?

This time last year, at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Dr Moupali Das of the San Francisco Department of Public Health presented evidence to

Published
09 March 2011
By
Gus Cairns
At least one in six patients maintains a viral load over one hundred thousand

A study of patients in southern Africa diagnosed during primary HIV infection has found that one in five maintained viral loads over 100,000 copies/ml for at least 400

Published
09 March 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Six months of nevirapine prophylaxis for breastfeeding infants reduces transmission by 76% if mother not on ART

Extending the use of daily infant nevirapine to six months reduced the risk of breastfeeding mother-to-child transmission by a significant 76% in HIV-positive mothers with CD4 cell

Published
07 March 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Partners study expands our knowledge of HIV transmission risk

A prevention study in which the intervention being tested failed is turning out to be a fertile source of information about HIV transmission risk in heterosexuals. Three

Published
03 March 2011
By
Gus Cairns
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