Dozens of African countries have made limited progress and are unlikely to meet UNAIDS targets for HIV testing and condom use by 2030, researchers reported at the HIV Research for Prevention virtual conference. Phuong Nguyen, a PhD candidate at St. Luke’s International University Graduate School of Public Health in Tokyo, and colleagues assessed survey data
Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis among gay men have shot up in recent years. One of the reasons put forward for this is more men are taking PrEP, having sex without condoms, and therefore putting themselves at greater risk of acquiring other sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). A new study from the University of New South
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS research scientist in evolutionary genetics Jeffery Joy speaks with Stephen Quinn about the different covid variants and what it means for public health heading towards the spring.
Variants are spreading but we don’t know how much BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS research scientist in evolutionary genetics Jeffery Joy speaks with Stephen Quinn about the different covid variants and what it means for public health heading towards the spring.
Health Minister Robin Swann has said hepatitis C could be wiped out in Northern Ireland within five years. The minister was speaking after his department, alongside the Public Health Agency, published a new action plan to eliminate the disease here by 2025 – five years ahead of the target set by the World Health Organisation.
Research from specialist HIV prevention and treatment clinics for female sex workers in Nairobi has found that the number testing positive for HIV dropped by more than two-thirds between 2008 and 2017. While no single intervention can be identified as to the underlying cause in the decreasing numbers, it suggests that increasing HIV awareness, testing
Research from specialist HIV prevention and treatment clinics for female sex workers in Nairobi has found that the number testing positive for HIV dropped by more than two-thirds between 2008 and 2017. While no single intervention can be identified as to the underlying cause in the decreasing numbers, it suggests that increasing HIV awareness, testing
A new test for measuring the reservoir of HIV hidden in the cells of people with HIV failed to detect this reservoir in a significant number of people with a subtype of HIV-1, according to a study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
A new test for measuring the reservoir of HIV hidden in the cells of people with HIV failed to detect this reservoir in a significant number of people with a subtype of HIV-1, according to a study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
Anyone curious to see evolution playing out in real time need look no further than NextStrain.org, a website that depicts the ever-sprouting family trees of different pathogens residing in the human population. Maintained by a collective of computational biologists, NextStrain is currently displaying more than 3,500 genetically distinct branches of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
Dramatic declines in HIV diagnoses in San Francisco have been attributed to testing, treatment and PrEP, but the declining Black population in the city is an unexamined factor, Dr Jade Pagkas-Bather of the University of Chicago and colleagues argue in the December issue of The Lancet HIV. There has been a 22% fall in San
Anyone curious to see evolution playing out in real time need look no further than NextStrain.org, a website that depicts the ever-sprouting family trees of different pathogens residing in the human population. Maintained by a collective of computational biologists, NextStrain is currently displaying more than 3,500 genetically distinct branches of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
The chief of Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital would take the reins at a pivotal moment for the CDC. President-elect Joe R. Biden has named Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, as his nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Walensky is currently the chief of the Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General
As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, British Columbia has reached new milestones in preventing HIV infections and improving the quality of life for people living with HIV. B.C. has surpassed a UNAIDS target and has seen a greater than 90% decrease in people living with and dying from AIDS. New HIV diagnoses have reached
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, British Columbia has reached new milestones in preventing HIV infections and improving the quality of life for people living with HIV. B.C. has surpassed a UNAIDS target and has seen a greater than 90% decrease in people living with and dying from AIDS. New HIV diagnoses have reached
As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.
As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.
As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.
As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.
