HIV news

Leading HIV scientists talk to us about the findings and implications of their latest research.

CROI 2024: Injectable treatment for people with adherence challenges

20 March 2024

At CROI 2024, Dr Aadia Rana from the University of Alabama at Birmingham spoke to aidsmap's Roger Pebody about injectable treatment for people with adherence challenges.

CROI 2024: Event-based PrEP

19 March 2024

At CROI 2024, Dr Jenell Stewart from the University of Minnesota spoke to aidsmap's Krishen Samuel about event-based PrEP for women.

CROI 2024: DoxyPEP

13 March 2024

At CROI 2024, Dr Manik Kohli from University College London spoke to aidsmap's Krishen Samuel about doxyPEP implementation and concerns about resistance.

CROI 2024: Dolutegravir resistance

12 March 2024

At CROI 2024, Dr George Bello from the Malawian International Training and Education Center for Health spoke to aidsmap's Roger Pebody about dolutegravir resistance in Malawi.

CROI 2024: HIV remission in children

11 March 2024

At CROI 2024, Professor Deborah Persaud from Johns Hopkins University spoke to aidsmap's Roger Pebody about her study on HIV remission in children.

CROI 2024: Injectable HIV treatment in Africa

7 March 2024

At CROI 2024, Professor Nicholas Paton from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine spoke to aidsmap's Roger Pebody about injectable HIV treatment in Africa.

CROI 2024: Weekly lenacapavir / islatravir for HIV treatment

6 March 2024

At CROI 2024, Dr Amy Colson from the Community Resource Initiative in Boston spoke to aidsmap's Roger Pebody about islatravir and lenacapavir as a once-weekly oral HIV treatment.

EACS 2023: Conference highlights

22 October 2023

At EACS 2023, we asked Professor Jürgen Rockstroh from the governing board of the European AIDS Clinical Society, about his highlights from the conference.

EACS 2023: Drug-reduced strategies

22 October 2023

At EACS 2023, Dr Luis Sagaon-Teyssier from Institut de Recherche pour le Développement spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about drug-reduced strategies at one of Paris's largest HIV clinics.

EACS 2023: Post-traumatic stress disorder and HIV

21 October 2023

At EACS 2023, Kevin Moody from the University of Amsterdam spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about post-traumatic stress disorder and HIV.

EACS 2023: HIV services during the war in Ukraine

21 October 2023

At EACS 2023, Olga Gvozdetska, acting Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian Public Health Center, spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about HIV services during the war in Ukraine.

EACS 2023: COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease

20 October 2023

At EACS 2023, Dr Raquel Martin Iguacel talks to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about COVID-19 and the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with HIV.

IAS 2023: Coercive reproductive healthcare practices reported by women with HIV

4 August 2023

At IAS 2023, Immaculate Owomugisha from the International Community of Women Living with HIV and Dr Carrie Lyons from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health spoke to NAM aidsmap's Krishen Samuel about coercive reproductive healthcare practices reported by women with HIV. 

IAS 2023: Adherence counselling after viral load rebound

1 August 2023

At IAS 2023, Dr Andrew Hill from the University of Liverpool talks to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about adherence counselling reversing viral rebound on dolutegravir.

IAS 2023: Key population services after Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act

1 August 2023

At IAS 2023, aidsmap's Krishen Samuel spoke to the US Ambassador to Uganda, Natalie Brown, and Dr Vamsi Vasireddy, who leads PEPFAR programmes in Uganda, about services for key populations in Uganda following the Anti-Homosexuality Act.

IAS 2023: Experiences of mpox

27 July 2023

At IAS 2023, Dr Anthony Smith from the University of New South Wales spoke to NAM aidsmap's Krishen Samuel about the impact of mpox. 

IAS 2023: Antiretrovirals and high blood pressure

26 July 2023

At IAS 2023, Professor Francois Venter from Ezintsha, Johannesburg, spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about antiretrovirals and high blood pressure.

IAS 2023: Statins for people living with HIV

26 July 2023

At IAS 2023, Professor Steven Grinspoon from Harvard Medical School spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about the use of statins in people living with HIV.

IAS 2023: HIV viral load that is “suppressed but not undetectable”

25 July 2023

At IAS 2023, Dr Lara Vojnov from the World Health Organization (WHO) spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about viral load measurements and their relevance to transmission and WHO's statement on undetectable viral load.

IAS 2023: HIV remission after a stem cell transplant

25 July 2023

At IAS 2023, Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión from the Institut Pasteur spoke to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about HIV remission after a stem cell transplant. 

CROI 2023: Islatravir implant for PrEP

1 March 2023

At CROI 2023, Professor Alessandro Grattoni from Houston Methodist Hospital spoke to NAM's Roger Pebody about an islatravir implant for PrEP.

CROI 2023: Lenacapavir and two broadly neutralising antibodies for treatment

23 February 2023

 At CROI 2023, Professor Joseph Eron from University of North Carolina spoke to NAM's Roger Pebody about lenacapavir and two broadly neutralising antibodies for treatment.

CROI 2023: Mpox in people with low CD4 counts

22 February 2023

At CROI 2023, Professor Chloe Orkin from Queen Mary University of London spoke to NAM's Roger Pebody about mpox in people with low CD4 counts.

CROI 2023: Integrase inhibitors and cardiovascular disease

22 February 2023

At CROI 2023, Dr Bernard Surial from the University of Bern spoke to NAM's Roger Pebody about integrase inhibitors and cardiovascular disease.

CROI 2023: DoxyPEP and resistance

22 February 2023

At CROI 2023, Professor Annie Luetkemeyer from the University of California, San Francisco spoke with Liz Highleyman about doxyPEP and resistance.

CROI 2023: DoxyPEP for women

21 February 2023

At CROI 2023, Dr Jenell Stewart from the University of Washington spoke to NAM's Roger Pebody about doxyPEP for women.

HIV Glasgow 2022: Refugee HIV care in Poland

1 November 2022

At HIV Glasgow 2022, Dr Miłosz Parczewski, President of the Polish AIDS Society, spoke to Roger Pebody about HIV care for Ukrainian refugees in Poland. 

HIV Glasgow 2022: Injectable cabotegravir and rilpivirine

1 November 2022

At HIV Glasgow 2022, Professor Chloe Orkin, from Queen Mary University London, spoke to Roger Pebody about who is at risk of injectable treatment failure.

HIV criminalisation in Tennessee

12 September 2022

Dr Robin Lennon-Dearing from the University of Memphis talks to Mariah Wilberg about HIV criminalisation in Tennessee.

AIDS 2022: Intimate partner violence

2 August 2022

At AIDS 2022, Professor Lucie Cluver from the University of Cape Town talks to NAM's Roger Pebody about violence and HIV.

AIDS 2022: HIV remission after a stem cell transplant

2 August 2022

At AIDS 2022, Dr Jana Dickter talks about the 'City of Hope patient', a man from California who appears to have been cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant.

AIDS 2022: Antibiotics to prevent STIs

1 August 2022

At AIDS 2022, Professor Annie Luetkemeyer and Professor Connie Celum talk about taking antibiotics (doxycycline) to prevent STIs.

AIDS 2022: 15 years post-treatment control of HIV

1 August 2022

At AIDS 2022, Dr Núria Climent & Dr José Alcamí from Hospital Clínic de Barcelona talk about a woman in Barcelona who has maintained an undetectable HIV viral load for more than 15 years after stopping antiretroviral therapy.

BHIVA 2022: Loss to follow-up

29 April 2022

At the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference, Dr Kate Childs from King's College Hospital, London talks to NAM aidsmap's Roger Pebody about the study she presented on loss to follow-up in south London clinics.

CROI 2022: Anal cancer

18 February 2022

At CROI 2022, Professor Joel Palefsky from the University of California San Francisco talks about the ANCHOR trial, which has showed that screening and early treatment reduces anal cancer in people with HIV.

CROI 2022: Antibody treatment for children

17 February 2022

Dr Roger Shapiro from Harvard University talks about antibody treatment for children with HIV and could it be used instead of pills at CROI 2022.

CROI 2022: HIV remission after transplant

17 February 2022

At CROI 2022, Professor Yvonne Bryson from the University of California Los Angeles talks about the woman in New York who has no detectable HIV 14 months after stopping antiretroviral therapy following a stem-cell transplant for leukaemia.

EACS 2021: Access to care in the pandemic

12 November 2021

Elena Vovc from the World Health Organization talks about the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted HIV diagnoses, treatment and prevention. Elena presented these findings at a session at the EACS 2021 conference.

EACS 2021: COVID-19 vaccinations

2 November 2021

A new study shows that people with HIV with CD4 counts below 200 produce weaker responses to COVID-19 vaccines than people with better immune function. Dr Andrea Antinori of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Italy, talks about the research presented to the EACS 2021 conference.

IAS 2021: Closing session, Keynote address – Susan Cole

27 July 2021

NAM aidsmap's Susan Cole gives the keynote address of the closing session of the IAS 2021 conference: 'How do we continue to unite policy, science and activism in an increasingly fragmented world?'

IAS 2021: Providing injectable HIV treatment

27 July 2021

At IAS 2021, Dr Maggie Czarnogorski of ViiV Healthcare talks about providing injectable HIV treatment.

IAS 2021: Vaginal rings and oral PrEP

27 July 2021

Dr Lulu Nair of Stellenbosch University in Cape Town talks about vaginal rings and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) at IAS 2021.

IAS 2021: COVID-19 in people with HIV

23 July 2021

Dr Silvia Bertagnolio of the World Health Organization talks about COVID-19 in people living with HIV at IAS 2021.

IAS 2021: Injectable treatment for multidrug-resistant HIV

23 July 2021

Professor Jean-Michel Molina of Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris talks about injectable lenacapavir, a capsid inhibitor currently under development, for people with multidrug-resistant HIV at IAS 2021.

IAS 2021: Injectable lenacapavir for people starting HIV treatment

23 July 2021

At IAS 2021, Professor Samir Gupta of Indiana University talks about lenacapavir, an experimental capsid inhibitor, for people starting HIV treatment.

Vaginal ring – Dr Zeda Rosenberg

30 July 2020

A vaginal ring containing the anti-HIV medication dapivirine provides a new HIV prevention option for women. Dr Zeda Rosenburg from the International Partnership for Microbicides tells us about the ring being approved by regulators and plans for its roll-out in sub-Saharan Africa.

AIDS 2020: Brazilian man in long-term HIV remission – without a stem-cell transplant

7 July 2020

According to a report presented at the AIDS 2020 conference, a man in São Paulo had no evidence of remaining HIV after more than 15 months off antiretrovirals. Dr Andrea Savarino from the Instituto Superiore di Sanita in Rome talks to NAM aidsmap.

IAS 2017: HIV Community Forum

23 August 2017

Our HIV Community Forum shared information on HIV treatment and prevention from the 9th IAS Conference on HIV Science. With Dr Tristan Barber, from Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust; Memory Sachikonye, from UK Community Advisory Board (UK-CAB); and Gus Cairns and Roger Pebody, from NAM aidsmap.