Switching HIV Drugs or Adding Zoledronic Acid Rebuilds Bone Lost to Tenofovir
A 48-week prospective cohort study finds that switching men with HIV off tenofovir disoproxil fumarate to TAF-based or tenofovir-free regimens, ...
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Rapid Sputum Test Proves Highly Accurate for Detecting Tuberculosis in High-Risk Children
A six-year South African study found that the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra test on induced sputum achieved over 90 percent sensitivity ...
Older Haitians Living With HIV Face a Rising Tide of Chronic Disease
A retrospective cohort study in northern Haiti finds that over 70 percent of older adults living with HIV on antiretroviral ...
Early Sex and HIV Risk in Young Cameroonians: Motherhood Sharpens the Danger
A national analysis of nearly 5,000 young Cameroonian women finds that early sexual debut raises HIV risk, but motherhood dramatically ...
Inflammatory Fingerprints Diverge Across the HIV Risk, Infection and Treatment Journey in Young People
Plasma proteomic profiling of 262 adolescents and young adults reveals distinct inflammatory marker signatures across the HIV risk, infection and ...
Childhood immune surveys could sharpen tuberculosis screening in Malawi, model finds
A mathematical modeling study in Blantyre, Malawi, shows that tuberculosis infection surveys in young children could guide targeted active case ...
Double Stigma: How HIV and COVID-19 Fears Keep Ugandan Mothers From Care
A qualitative study in Uganda shows how intersecting HIV stigma and COVID-19 fear create layered barriers that keep pregnant and ...
Ozone and Cold Spells Together Sharply Raise AIDS-Related Death Risk in China
A twenty-year cohort study in Hubei Province, China, finds that long-term ozone exposure and frequent cold spells each raise AIDS-related ...
Seed Funding and Mentorship Help Residencies Grow the HIV Clinician Workforce
A one-year federally funded pilot provided seed money, mentorship, and a shared toolkit to six residency programs in high HIV ...
HIV can dodge preventive antibody VRC01 after infection, trial sequencing reveals
Deep sequencing of breakthrough infections from the AMP trials shows that prophylactic VRC01 selected for low-frequency HIV escape mutations in ...
Rapid HIV Blood Bank Tests in Mozambique Miss a Concerning Share of Infected Donations
A new evaluation of Mozambique's blood bank screening tests finds that rapid antibody assays miss a measurable fraction of HIV-positive ...
Most HIV Deaths Now Strike People on Treatment, Models Reveal in Southern Africa
Seven independent HIV simulation models consistently show that most HIV-related deaths in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa now occur among ...
Standard HIV Drug Regimen Shows Signs of Ovarian Harm in Rats and Women
A combined animal and clinical study finds that the standard TLD antiretroviral regimen disrupts estrous cycling, damages ovarian tissue, and ...
Measuring Wellbeing in Adolescents Living with HIV: Lessons from Zimbabwe
A Zimbabwean study to build a wellbeing scale for adolescents living with HIV failed to produce a valid total score ...
HIV Patients in South Africa Fall Through the Cracks of Hypertension Care, Landmark Study Finds
A study of nearly 24,000 patients in Johannesburg finds that people living with HIV are more likely to remain undiagnosed ...
Engineered Immune Cells Move From Cancer Care Toward the Clinic Against Infections
A new review in the Journal of Translational Medicine charts how CAR-T-cell technology is being adapted from cancer treatment to ...
Viral Gene Variant Tied to Aggressive Kaposi Sarcoma Through Inflammation
A study of 156 patients in Xinjiang, China, links a specific KSHV K15 gene variant to aggressive Kaposi sarcoma through ...
After the ICU Door Closes: One in Four HIV Patients Rehospitized or Dead Within Weeks of Cryptococcal Meningitis Discharge
A post-hoc analysis of four Ugandan clinical trials found that 26.6 percent of adults discharged after HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis were ...
Late HIV Diagnosis Persists in Morocco as TB Coinfection and Early Deaths Mount
A prospective cohort of 396 newly diagnosed patients at a Casablanca tertiary care center reveals widespread late presentation, heavy tuberculosis ...
Fingertip Blood Sampling Device Outperforms Rival in HIV Monitoring Trial in Zambia
A randomized crossover trial in Zambia found that adults living with HIV successfully collected sufficient capillary blood at home far ...
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