Newswise Feature Channel: AIDS and HIV

NIH Announces Awards to Advance Tech for HIV Viral Load Detection

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:55:08 EST

NIH awarded more than $4 million in funds and support services to three diagnostic technology developers as part of the RADx Tech's Advanced Platforms for HIV Viral Load Monitoring program.

HIV Drug Based in Research by Sundquist Lab is Science's 2024 Breakthrough of the Year

University of Utah Health — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:55:14 EST

Wesley Sundquist, PhD, laid the foundation for the development of a highly effective, long-lasting prophylactic against HIV, which has been named the Breakthrough of the Year by Science, a top scientific journal. The drug, lenacapavir, is highly effective; a single dose provides protection for six months.

Tracking Down and Eliminating HIV Dormant in the Body: A Major Step Forward

Universite de Montreal — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:00:24 EST

A research team is working to develop a method to reactivate latent HIV in virus carriers in order to eliminate it from the body permanently.

Mount Sinai International to Address African Health Ministers and Pan-African Health Care Leaders at Inaugural International Health Ministerial Summit in Rwanda

Mount Sinai Health System — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:55:19 EST

Mount Sinai International (MSI), a part of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York that focuses on advancing health care across the world, will participate in the International Health Ministerial Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, on Wednesday and Thursday, December 4-5.

How HIV Research Reshaped Modern Medicine

Harvard Medical School — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:00:03 EST

Decades of scientific work turned the tide on a fatal disease and yielded insights into immunity, vaccines, and more

Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir for PrEP Reduces HIV Infections by 96%

Yale School of Medicine — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:00:02 EST

For People Living with HIV/AIDS, TB is Still the Leading Cause of Death

American Thoracic Society (ATS) — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:00:54 EST

The latest World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report released in November 2024 painted a sobering picture; approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023, the highest number since the organization began global TB monitoring in 1995. TB is the leading cause of death among those with HIV /AIDS worldwide. According to the WHO, in 2023, 161,000 people died of HIV-associated TB.

2024 DiA MUNDIAL DEL SIDA: Se necesita una accion colectiva para acabar con el VIH/SIDA, un terreno comun para una nacion dividida

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:10:56 EST

Este domingo 1 de diciembre, Dia Mundial del SIDA, el Centro para la Salud del Adolescente Latino y la Familia (CLAFH) junto con el Instituto para Soluciones Politicas (IPS) de la Escuela de Enfermeria Johns Hopkins esta llamando a todos los sectores a actuar.

2024 WORLD AIDS DAY: Collective Action Needed to End HIV/AIDS, Common Ground for Divided Nation

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:10:01 EST

This World AIDS Day Sunday, December 1, the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) along with the Institute for Policy Solutions (IPS) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is calling all sectors to act.

Wistar Institute and Cameroon Researchers Reveals HIV Latency Reversing Properties in African Plant

Wistar Institute — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:55:23 EST

A collaboration between The Wistar Institute and the University of Buea in Cameroon has uncovered the mechanisms for a medicinal plant with anti-HIV potential in Croton oligandrus Pierre & Hutch, a species of African tree that has been used in traditional healing in Cameroon to treat a variety of diseases and conditions including cancers and diabetes.

Ochsner Transplant Institute Among Site Collaborators in New England Journal of Medicine HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant Study

Ochsner Health — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:35:58 EST

The article, Safety of Kidney Transplantation from Donors with HIV, details findings supporting HIV-to-HIV kidney transplants as safe and just as effective as those using organs from donors without HIV.

A Gut Feeling About HIV and Heart Disease

Cedars-Sinai — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:20:15 EST

Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, PhD, is a pioneer in the study of the gut microbiota and the surprising ways these microorganisms living in our digestive tracts affect our overall health. His discoveries have been featured in Nature, Science Translational Medicine, Cell Reports and other top scientific journals.

Survey Finds Continued Declines in HIV Clinician Workforce

Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:30:18 EST

The supply of healthcare professionals available to provide HIV care continues to decline, even as the need for HIV care and prevention is expected to increase, reports a survey study in the November/December issue of The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC). The official journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, JANAC is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Advanced Modeling Contributes to Progress in Thwarting HIV in Sweden

Los Alamos National Laboratory — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:10:32 EST

In a landmark achievement for the fight against HIV, Sweden has attained the critical "95-95-95" target on the path to tackling the disease. Advanced bioinformatics modeling developed by a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory was deployed to track and verify the country's progress toward the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and World Health Organization target.

Study Finds HIV-To-HIV Kidney Transplants Are as Safe and Effective as Those Using Organs From Donors Without HIV

Johns Hopkins Medicine — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:15:29 EST

According to findings from a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and released today in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), transplanting kidneys from deceased donors who had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to recipients with HIV is safe. Perhaps more importantly, the study authors also found that HIV-to-HIV kidney transplants are comparable in effectiveness to those using organs from donors without HIV.

Mount Sinai Doctors to Present at ID Week 2024

Mount Sinai Health System — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:05:00 EST

Experts in infection prevention and control available for interview about research findings and other breaking health topics including the flu, COVID, HIV, mpox, West Nile, and vaccinations

Urgent New Approaches Needed to End HIV/AIDS Crisis Among Latinos

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:00:00 EST

In a new paper published on October 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine, experts are urging all sectors of the health care community to urgently evolve their approaches to meet the continuing HIV/AIDS crisis among Latinos. This call-to-action comes at a time when the decades-long effort to end the epidemic in the U.S. is showing overall progress.

Se Necesitan Urgentemente Nuevos Enfoques Para Erradicar La Crisis Del Vih/Sida en La PoblacioN Latina

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:00:00 EST

En un nuevo articulo de investigacion publicado {hoy/esta semana} en la revista medica New England Journal of Medicine, los expertos en el tema recomiendan encarecidamente que todos los sectores de la comunidad de atencion de la salud actualicen sus enfoques para poder enfrentar la crisis permanente del VIH/SIDA en la poblacion latina. Este llamado a la accion surge en un momento en el que se refleja un progreso general en el esfuerzo realizado por varias decadas para erradicar la epidemia en los Estados Unidos.

Tip Sheet: 4 NCI-Designated Cancer Centers Form AI Alliance, New Database of Hispanic/Latinx Scientists -- and Fred Hutch Volunteer Stories

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:00:15 EST

Below are summaries of recent Fred Hutch Cancer Center research findings, patient stories and other news.

First Report of Its Kind Describes HIV Reservoir Landscape in Breast Milk

American College of Physicians (ACP) — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:00:00 EST

In the first report of its kind, researcher from the University of Buenos Aires evaluated the HIV reservoir in the breast milk cells of two women living with HIV (WLWH) who had been on successful long-term treatment.