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The 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2025) is taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, and virtually, ...
Had none of these interventions been introduced, there would have been 7646 new infections in 2021 – eleven times as many as the 669 that occurred. The four interventions therefore had a synergistic ...
Professor Yvonne Bryson of the University of California Los Angeles described the new case at the conference and an accompanying press briefing. The middle-aged (post-menopausal) woman, a participant ...
A man in southern California, dubbed the 'City of Hope patient', appears to be the latest person cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare mutation, bringing the ...
In some cases, HIV can bypass the barrier that encases the brain and cerebrospinal fluid which can contribute to brain inflammation and neurocognitive symptoms. However, diagnosing this viral ‘escape’ ...
South Africa is expected to begin piloting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in 2023, health financing mechanism Unitaid tells aidsmap. The demonstration study will be the first of many ...
Mpox looked like a very different disease among people with uncontrolled HIV, according to Orkin. “When I saw the fatality rate, I felt horrified,” she said. “If there’s someone in your life who ...
Over half of funding for anti-gender actors in Europe appears to come from within Europe itself, with significant amounts of money also flowing from the US and the Russian Federation, according to ...
It’s rare in any branch of medicine that a trial of a new drug can report 100% efficacy, and a first in HIV science. But that’s what happened on Friday, when Gilead Sciences announced that no HIV ...
Last year, a 66-year-old Californian woman, diagnosed with HIV in 1992, appeared in a local magazine as “The World’s First Known Person Who Naturally Beat HIV.” Loreen Willenberg had always been an ...
Research from specialist HIV prevention and treatment clinics for female sex workers in Nairobi has found that the number testing positive for HIV dropped by more than two-thirds between 2008 and 2017 ...
The lifetime rate of suicide attempts fell by an absolute percentage of 0.17% per year of publication. Being on antiretroviral therapy pushed the rate of attempts down more, by 1.35%, meaning that if ...