[From Avert, January 30, 2019] “Unplanned pregnancy may be a common and persistent risk factor for poor antiretroviral treatment outcomes in South African women living with HIV. Women living with HIV in South Africa who did not plan to get pregnant were three times more likely to have an elevated viral load than women who […]
[From Medical Xpress, January 31, 2019] “As a raft of new treatments for HIV infection have come on the market in the past 20 years, AIDS patients got access to drugs that allowed them to live longer. “These drugs are miracles,” said Dr. Richard N. Greenberg, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Kentucky.
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[From The Telegraph, January 25, 2019] “One of the world’s largest development funds risks “overstating” the number of lives it has saved and must improve transparency, experts have warned. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has an annual budget of roughly $4 billion, funds projects around the world to tackle these
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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
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[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
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