HIV Populations
September 18 is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
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- Category: HIV & Aging
- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
Friday, September 18, is the 8th annual observance of National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (NHAAAD), an opportunity to focus on the challenges facing the aging population regarding HIV prevention, testing, care, and treatment, as well as the health and well-being of the growing population of older people living with HIV.
Older People with HIV Have Reduced Life Expectancy
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- Category: HIV & Aging
- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Mortality among HIV-positive people age 50 or older has fallen dramatically since the advent of effective combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the mid-1990s, but even well-treated people in this age group without AIDS-defining events or comorbidities have reduced survival time, on average, compared with the general population, according to a report in the August 27 advance edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
IAS 2015: HIV Treatment Scale-up Linked to Reduced Mortality Among Vancouver Drug Injectors
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- Category: People Who Inject Drugs
- Published on Wednesday, 19 August 2015 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
HIV-related and all-cause death decreased significantly among people who inject drugs -- with similar declines for both women and men -- since the introduction of expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) as part of a "treatment as prevention" initiative in Vancouver, researchers reported last month at the 8th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention. These findings support recommendations to treat everyone with HIV, both to benefit their own health and to reduce transmission.
IAS 2015: Peer or Community Interventions Improve Outcomes for Mothers with HIV
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- Category: Pregnancy & HIV MTCT
- Published on Monday, 31 August 2015 00:00
- Written by Carole Leach-Lemens
Peer- and community-based interventions can significantly increase retention in care of mothers with HIV and improve attendance at early prenatal clinic visits, according to results from 2 large multi-country studies presented last month at the 8th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015) in Vancouver.
Updated Guidelines for Pregnant Women with HIV and Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission
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- Category: Pregnancy & HIV MTCT
- Published on Tuesday, 11 August 2015 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week released an update to its Recommendations for Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-1-Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV Transmission in the United States. Notable changes include discussion of antiretroviral treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for serodiscordant couples wishing to conceive, and a new section on options for perinatally infected women who are now pregnant themselves.
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- IAS 2015: Presumptive Treatment of TB in Advanced HIV No Better than ART and Isoniazid
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