[From Inside Philanthropy] “December 1, the 30th anniversary of the first World AIDS Day, offered a moment take stock of the ongoing battle against an epidemic that’s killed 35 million people since the 1980s. The good news is that antiretroviral therapy has transformed HIV from a nearly always fatal infection into a manageable chronic condition. […]
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[From aidsmap, Oct 19, 2018] “An HIV-negative child received a liver transplant from its HIV-positive mother and now appears to have no evidence of HIV infection apart from a very weak antibody response, despite extensive testing for the virus, South African researchers report in the journal AIDS. Researchers cannot decide whether the child has cleared HIV
[From SciDevNet, Oct 22, 2018] “Over the last two decades, the world has made huge gains in the control of the HIVepidemic. But now, these gains are at risk of stalling.” For more, click here.
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[From NBC News, Oct 15, 2018] “When the AIDS plague finally took hold in the U.S., it surged through communities that the straight world preferred not to see. It took a few tries. The virus lurked in tropical regions of central Africa, and made several incursions into the American continent before becoming a global pandemic. HIV
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[From aidsmap, Oct 15, 2018] “Two-thirds of people taking combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) would be interested in switching to a once-weekly oral regimen should it become available, according to American research published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Opinion was evenly split on switching to injectable therapy but treatment delivered using implants attracted relatively little interest.” For
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