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[From The Body Pro, January 23, 2019] “Early in the epidemic, one of the most terrifying consequences of late-stage, AIDS-related illness was the various neurocognitive disorders, the worst of which was dementia. At that time, with no effective antiretroviral therapies, the virus quickly penetrated the blood-brain barrier. AIDS dementia complex, along with early opportunistic infections […]

[From HIV Plus, January 22, 2019] “Meet Miguel [not his real name], in a soon-to-be published case study as “The Lisbon Patient,” will be celebrating his upcoming centennial in the spring. Due to fear or reprisal and persistence of HIV stigma, Miguel and his family requested that his face not be shown, and his real

[From Al Jazeera, January 21st 2019] “Sanaa, Yemen – With each breath he took, the red rashes on Ahmad’s cheeks appeared to get brighter and brighter. The eight-year-old had just made his way up the stairs of the al-Jumhurriya hospital in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, one of the few health centres in the war-ravaged country that

[From aidsmap, January 17th 2019] “An individual patient data analysis of almost 25,000 pregnancies in women living with HIV has found that the rate of birth defects following exposure to efavirenz was not statistically different, and may even be lower than in infants exposed to other antiretrovirals. The analysis by Professor Begoña Martinez de Tejada

[From Avert, January 16th 2019] “Young women in South Africa and Kenya would prefer injectable HIV prevention products that are multipurpose and can also prevent pregnancy over oral or ring-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) products. The findings were revealed in a ‘discrete choice experiment’ (DCE) conducted among 536 women aged 18-30 in South Africa and Kenya