In South Africa, HIV-infected men who are receiving treatment with anti-HIV drugs (antiretroviral therapy) are almost a third more likely to die than HIV-positive women who are receiving similar treatment: however, these differences are likely to be due to gender differences in death rates in the general population rather than related to HIV, according to a study by a team of international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.
- Published
- 05 September 2012
- From
- EurekAlert!
Inadequate access to nutritious food is associated with increased hospitalizations and emergency room visits among HIV-positive individuals, and ensuring that patients have enough to eat may need to be a priority for the doctors and nurses who treat them, the San Francisco Chronicle says.
In a paper released Wednesday, the scientists reported that 56 percent of HIV-positive patients who are homeless or living in substandard housing are also food insecure, which is defined as a regular inability to obtain enough healthy food. The researchers looked at 347 HIV patients, all of whom live in San Francisco.
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- 22 August 2012
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San Francisco Chronicle
The cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a member of the herpesvirus family. Although most people carry CMV for life, it hardly ever makes them sick. Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and from the USA have now unveiled long term consequences of the on-going presence of CMV: Later in life, more and more cells of the immune system concentrate on CMV, and as a result, the response against other viruses is weakened. These research results help to explain why the elderly are often more prone to infectious diseases than young people.
The viral immunologist Professor Luka Cicin-Sain, head of the junior research group "Immune Aging and Chronic Infections" at the HZI in Braunschweig, Germany, and his colleagues have now published their discovery in the open access journal PLoS Pathogens. In the article, they describe that even months after infection with CMV, mice still show weaker responses against other viruses such as the flu virus.
- Published
- 17 August 2012
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EurekAlert
A higher CD4 cell count benefits the household economically
and is associated with better educational opportunities for the children in the
household, according to findings from a
- Published
- 02 August 2012
- By
- Carole Leach-Lemens
Patient retention and linkage throughout
the cascade of HIV care remains very low, placing the concept of ‘test and
treat’ as part of the solution to ending
- Published
- 26 July 2012
- By
- Lesley Odendal
Despite
effective antiretroviral therapy, people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C
remain at higher risk for decompensated liver disease and other liver-related
complications than those with hepatitis C
- Published
- 26 July 2012
- By
- Liz Highleyman
The
first evidence of dramatic changes in adult life expectancy in an HIV-endemic
region, from individually measured data in a complete population cohort, showed
large increases in adult
- Published
- 25 July 2012
- By
- Lesley Odendal
Physical tracing of patients in antiretroviral (ARV)
programmes results in a decrease in loss to follow-up, but an increase in reported
mortality, according to a systematic review
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- 24 July 2012
- By
- Lesley Odendal
The United States understands the sea change in AIDS of the past two decades but is unaware of many details of the progress of recent years. It may be that places such as the District of Columbia (HIV prevalence of 2.7 percent) have lessons to learn from places such as Rwanda (HIV prevalence of 2.9 percent), whose response to the AIDS epidemic has been widely praised.
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- 23 July 2012
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The Washington Post
AIDS care in America is like a set of nested Russian dolls, each wooden figure smaller than the one it’s inside.
- Published
- 21 July 2012
- From
- Washington Post
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