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Majority of Americans with HIV Not Receiving Regular Care
Less than half of people living with HIV in the U.S. are receiving recommended regular medical care including antiretroviral treatment, according to a study described in the January 19, 2012, advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes .
HIV/AIDS
FDA Pain Patch Decision: Making a 'Sophie's Choice' with People's Lives
At the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory hearing on Thursday, February...
HIV Viral Load Predicts Risk of Infection in Large Study
HIV RNA levels are the most significant factor predicting risk of HIV transmissi...
Oral HIV Tests May Be Less Accurate than Blood Tests
Oral HIV antibody testing is quick and convenient, but this method is not quite ...
Companies Lower HIV Drug Prices for ADAP, but Many Patients Still Waiting
Four pharmaceutical companies recently agreed to discount their prices on antire...
Hepatitis B
Do Not Use Telbivudine (Tyzeka) with Pegasys for Hepatitis B, FDA Warns
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week announced revisions to the...
CDC Advisory Committee Recommends Hepatitis B Vaccine for People with Diabetes
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immun...
Interpreting Hepatitis B Tests
The following table from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD...
Statins May Reduce Liver Cancer Risk among People with Hepatitis B
Statins, a class of drugs used to manage elevated blood cholesterol, may also pl...
Hepatitis C
FDA Lifts Hold on Idenix HCV Polymerase Inhibitor IDX184
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week gave the go-ahead for furt...
Experimental Hepatitis C Vaccine Triggers T-Cell Responses in Early Clinical Trial
An investigational adenovirus-based hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine induced sust...
AASLD: HCV Screening of 1945-1965 Birth Cohort Appears Cost-Effective
Screening all people in the U.S. in the 46 to 66 year age group for hepatitis C ...
Anemia during Hepatitis C Treatment Predicts Sustained Response to Pegylated Interferon/ribavirin
Hepatitis C patients who develop anemia during treatment with pegylated int...
Coinfection
HIV/HBV Coinfection Raises Risk of AIDS Progression and Death
Coinfection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) nearly doubled the risk of progression ...
Experts Issue Provisional Guidance on New Hepatitis C Drugs for HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients
HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) experts have issued preliminary recommendations ...
Other Infections
New Shorter Treatment for Latent TB Not Recommended for HIV+ People on ART
Expert panels that put together the Department of Health and Human Services anti...
Gonorrhea May Become Untreatable Due to Resistance, Experts Warn
Neisseria gonorrhoeae ,the bacteria that cause gonorrhea, are becoming increasing...
Rising Rate of Mouth and Throat Cancers Caused by HPV
Oral cancers caused by oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) -- the same virus th...
Ribavirin May Be Effective against Acute Hepatitis E
Ribavirin, a component of standard therapy for chronic hepatitis C, may also be ...
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13th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2011) |
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51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC 2011) |
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6th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment & Prevention (IAS 2011) |
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46th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL 2011) March 30-Apr. 3, 2011, Berlin |
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18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2011) |
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The Liver Meeting (AASLD 2010) October 29-Nov. 3, 2010, Boston |
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50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC 2010) September 12-15, 2010, Boston |
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XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) July 18-23, 2010, Vienna |
