HIV
Conference Coverage
Continuity of care can limit HIV deaths
Getting people who are infected with HIV onto early antiretroviral therapy (ART) and keeping them on it may be the best way to reduce HIV-related...
News
HIV research update: Early March 2016
A great volume of HIV and AIDS research enters the medical literature every month. It’s difficult to monitor everything, so here’s a quick look at...
News
Privacy measure inadvertently suppresses substance abuse data
Compared with data available before the policy change, afterward there was an immediate and substantial reduction. Inpatient diagnosis rates...
Conference Coverage
When toenail onychomycosis can turn deadly
Pay special attention in the immunocompromised and immunosuppressed.
News
Urine test use to guide treatment reduced TB mortality in HIV patients
Use of a low-cost urine test to guide tuberculosis treatment significantly improved mortality in HIV-positive patients.
Conference Coverage
HIV-positive life expectancy improves, but gap remains
Optimally treated patients with HIV are living longer than ever, and have narrowed but not completely closed the gap in life expectancy, compared...
News
HIV research update: Late February 2016
A great volume of HIV and AIDS research enters the medical literature every month. It’s difficult to monitor everything, so here’s a quick look at...
News
HCV risk sixfold higher with HIV
Key clinical point: Individuals with HIV have a sixfold greater likelihood of also being infected with hepatitis C virus. Major finding: The odds...