HIV Policy & Advocacy
AIDS 2012: Expanded Access to HIV Treatment Lowered AIDS Deaths Worldwide
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- Category: HIV Policy & Advocacy
- Published on Friday, 10 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Press Release
Many low- and middle-income countries have begun to devote significant resources towards HIV/AIDS treatment, matching wealthy international donor countries, according to a new report release by the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in advance of the recent XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, DC. This increased funding has enabled an expansion of antiretroviral treatment that has helped reduced AIDS-related deaths by 100,000 over the past year.
AIDS 2012: French Cohort Treated during Primary Infection Appears to Control HIV without ART
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- Category: Search for a Cure
- Published on Tuesday, 07 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
A group of French HIV patients known as the VISCONTI cohort, who started antiretroviral therapy (ART) during the earliest stage of infection, so far appear to be controlling the virus after interrupting treatment, researchers reported at the recent XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, DC.
AIDS 2012: HIV PrEP: Toxic Lifelong Therapy or Effective Niche Prevention? [VIDEO]
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Wednesday, 01 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Gregory Fowler
Pre-exposure prophylaxis -- better known as PrEP -- for HIV prevention remains a controversial issue. At the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) last week in Washington, DC, Julio Montaner and Kenneth Mayer described new IAPAC PrEP guidelines and responded to concerns of a skeptical journalist.
AIDS 2012: HDAC Vorinostat Disrupts HIV Latency in Patients' CD4 Cells
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- Category: Search for a Cure
- Published on Friday, 03 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
The histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat can interfere with a mechanisms that allows HIV to remain latent in resting CD4 T-cells, offering the potential to flush out the virus -- one approach being explored as a potential cure for HIV, researchers reported in the July 25, 2012, issue of Nature and at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) last week in Washington, DC.
AIDS 2012: Nick Rhoades -- Criminal Transmission of HIV [VIDEO]
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Wednesday, 01 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Gregory Fowler
In 2008 Nick Rhoades was convicted of "Criminal Transmission of HIV" in Iowa, even though his viral load was undetectable, he used a condom, and his accuser did not contract HIV. He told his story at a press conference at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) last week in Washington, DC.
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