HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
San Francisco Annual Report Shows Continued Drop in HIV Infections
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has released its HIV Epidemiology Annual Report for 2016, showing that the number of new infections continues to decline, with decreases seen across demographic groups. Homeless people, however, have higher rates of infection and poorer treatment outcomes.
IAS 2017: World On Track To Reach 90-90-90 Targets for HIV Treatment by 2020
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00
- Written by Keith Alcorn
The world is on track to reach global targets for reducing AIDS deaths and expanding HIV treatment access by 2020, but some regions of the world risk falling further behind due to lack of political commitment, UNAIDS announced in the run-up tothe 9th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2017) in Paris.
CROI 2017: Simple Risk Score Can Identify Gay Men Who May Have Acute HIV Infection
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Sunday, 19 March 2017 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
A set of 7 simple questions about symptoms and risk factors identified three-quarters of gay men in Amsterdam who have acute (very recent) HIV infection, according to a study presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle last month. Using this risk score could identify gay men requiring HIV RNA testing, which can detect acute infections, in addition to HIV antibody testing.
CROI 2017: 1 in 5 HIV+ Men in U.K. Who Say They Are Heterosexual Caught HIV from Another Man
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Sunday, 19 March 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
A genetic analysis of a large database of people with HIV in care in the U.K. shows that 18% of HIV-positive men who claim to be exclusively heterosexual in fact belong to clusters of linked infections that consist only of men. The data were presented by Manon Ragonnet-Cronin and colleagues from Edinburgh University at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle.
CROI 2017: Finding Men with HIV -- and Keeping Them in Treatment
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Sunday, 19 March 2017 00:00
- Written by Keith Alcorn
Specialized services to attract men to HIV testing and treatment may need to adopt several different formats in order to reach different sub-populations of men, suggesting there is no single service innovation that will boost uptake among men in sub-Saharan Africa, according to research from South Africa presented at last month’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
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