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IAS 2015: International AIDS Society Conference Starts this Weekend in Vancouver
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Wednesday, 15 July 2015 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
The 8th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015) starts this Sunday and runs July 19-22 in Vancouver. HIV prevention -- including treatment-as-prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) -- will be a major focus of the meeting. Other topics will include antiretroviral drugs in development, expanding access to treatment and retention in care, and HIV/hepatitis coinfection. HIVandHepatitis.com will be on site covering the latest news.
14. HIV Researchers and Advocates Killed in Plane Crash En Route to AIDS Conference
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- Category: AIDS 2014
- Published on Monday, 12 January 2015 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
The 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne got off to a somber start in July after several HIV researchers and advocates en route to the meeting were killed on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, which crashed after being hit by a missile near the Russia-Ukraine border.
Counseling Helps Improve PrEP Adherence Among Serodiscordant Couples
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Cognitive-behavioral counseling sessions significantly increased the likelihood of consistently taking pills among participants with faltering adherence in an African trial of Truvada pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for serodiscordant (mixed HIV status) heterosexual couples, according to a report in the August 15 Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
HIV and Hepatitis C Highlights from AIDS 2014
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Wednesday, 22 October 2014 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
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Paul Sax from Harvard Medical School and Mark Sulkowski from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discuss highlights from this summer's International AIDS Conference, the largest and most comprehensive global meeting on the medical, public health, and social aspects of HIV and AIDS.
Highlights of this overview include the HIV cascade of care, developments in antiretroviral therapy, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and other HIV prevention news, and new hepatitis C treatment for people with HIV/HCV coinfection.
10/22/14
AIDS 2014: Low Level Viral Load Does Not Raise Risk of HIV Treatment Failure
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
People with HIV who have a low-level viral load between 20 and 50 copies/mL were not more likely to experience virological failure of antiretroviral therapy (ART) compared with those who consistently maintained viral suppression below 20 copies/mL, according to research presented at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne.
AIDS 2014: Most Gay Men Who Don’t Use Condoms Attempt to Reduce HIV Risk
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
Three-quarters of Australian gay and bisexual men who report unprotected anal intercourse with casual male partners say that they often or always employ some sort of risk reduction strategy with those partners, according to a report at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne. Many men attempt to select partners who they believe have the same HIV status as themselves (serosorting), a significant proportion use condoms most but not all of the time, and smaller numbers practice "strategic positioning" or withdrawal before ejaculation.
AIDS 2014: Australian Bone Marrow Transplant Patients Show No Detectable HIV
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- Category: Search for a Cure
- Published on Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
An additional 2 people with long-term HIV infection have no evidence of infectious virus or viral genetic material following bone marrow stem cell transplants to treat leukemia or lymphoma, researchers reported at the 20th International AIDS Conference last month in Melbourne. While these individuals remain on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and therefore cannot be considered functionally cured, they offer further evidence that HIV may be controlled off ART in some cases.
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- AIDS 2014: What Is Needed to "Step Up the Pace" on HIV Prevention and Treatment?
- AIDS 2014: Studies Show Need for Scaled-up HIV Prevention for Sex Workers
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- AIDS 2014: Dolutegravir Demonstrates Good Efficacy Despite Resistance
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- AIDS 2014: More Data Suggest Increased HIV Risk from Injectable Contraceptives
- AIDS 2014: Young People with HIV Respond Well to Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
- UNAIDS Gap Report Finds Half of HIV+ People Worldwide Are Unaware of Status
- AIDS 2014: Police Can Play a Role in Reducing HIV [VIDEO]
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- AIDS 2014: Adult Male Circumcision Also Protects Women from HIV Infection [VIDEO]
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- AIDS 2014: Melbourne Declaration -- Nobody Left Behind
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- AIDS 2014: Researchers Discuss Progress Towards an HIV Cure [VIDEO]
- AIDS 2014: Romidepsin Activates Latent HIV, But Does Not Decrease Viral Reservoir
- AIDS 2014: Maraviroc Fails To Match Truvada for First-Line HIV Treatment
- AIDS 2014: Anal Lesions Often Resolve Without Treatment In HIV Positive Gay Men
- AIDS 2014: iPrEx OLE Shows PrEP Effectiveness Is 100% for Those Taking 4 or More Doses per Week
- AIDS 2014: Harm Reduction Funding Is Meeting Only 7% of Global Need
- AIDS 2014 Mobilization: Activists Demand More HIV Funding, End Stigma [VIDEO]
- AIDS 2014: Positively Fabulous Aims to Change HIV+ Women's Lives [VIDEO]
- AIDS 2014: Law and Policy Must Be Part of the Solution for AIDS [VIDEO]
- AIDS 2014: HIV/HCV Coinfected Have High Cure Rates with Interferon-free Hep C Combos
- TAG Releases 2014 HIV, Hepatitis C, and Tuberculosis Pipeline Report
- AIDS 2014: Novel PaMZ Tuberculosis Regimen Could Reduce Treatment Duration
- AIDS 2014: AbbVie 3D Regimen Cures Most Genotype 1 HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients
- AIDS 2014: Sofosbuvir + Ribavirin Cures More Than 80% of HIV/HCV Coinfected People
- AIDS 2014: Criminalization Fuels HIV/AIDS Epidemic [VIDEO]
- AIDS 2014: No One Left Behind in Response to HIV/AIDS [VIDEO]
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