HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
Curbing HIV Among Drug Users Reduces AIDS and Death Among Heterosexuals
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- Category: Injection Drug Use
- Published on Thursday, 03 April 2014 00:00
- Written by NYU
Counseling, testing, and harm reduction programs that reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs (PWID) as well as non-injecting drug users were associated with an overall reduction in rates of progression to AIDS and mortality among heterosexuals in U.S. cities, according to study described in the April edition of Annals of Epidemiology.
HIV+ People on ART May Match General Population Life Expectancy
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Monday, 23 December 2013 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Young adults with HIV in high-income countries who take effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) may live nearly as long as HIV negative people in the general population, according to findings from the NA-ACCORD collaboration published in the December 18, 2013, edition of PLoS ONE.
HIV Infections Fall by 33% Overall, 52% Among Children Since 2001, Says UNAIDS
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Monday, 23 September 2013 00:00
- Written by UNAIDS
HIV incidence, or new infections, have decreased by more than one-third overall and by half among children over the past decade, and widening access to antiretroviral therapy has helped push AIDS-related mortality down by 30% since its peak in 2005, according to a new report released today by UNAIDS. The report also looks at HIV/AIDS funding, legal restrictions on people with HIV, and other challenges to ending the epidemic.
UNAIDS Reports Progress Ahead of World AIDS Day
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- Category: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Mortality
- Published on Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Sunday, December 1, is the 26th annual observance of World AIDS Day. In advance of the commemoration, UNAIDS issued its 2013 annual report, AIDS by the numbers, showing that most areas of the world have seen accelerated progress against the epidemic, but some are falling behind. The U.S. Congress last week passed the PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of 2013, extending international HIV/AIDS funding for another 5 years.
IAS 2013: End-Stage Kidney Disease Is More Common Among People with HIV
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- Category: Liver & Kidney Disease
- Published on Wednesday, 07 August 2013 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
HIV positive people in the U.S. and Canada are nearly 4 times as likely to develop end-stage renal disease than HIV negative people in the general population, largely driven by a very high rate among blacks, researchers reported last month at the 7th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2013) in Kuala Lumpur.
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