The study is ongoing, and our hope is that this strategy will lead to long-term control of the virus in the absence of ART in some of the women. This can then help us to better understand the immune mechanisms that may control the virus without antiretroviral therapy, and this could lead...
Medical research HIV: There's hope for a cure—where we stand now With the help of new scientific and technological developments, the HIV/Aids research community is increasingly turning to an ambitious goal: finding a cure for HIV/Aids. Dec 2, 2024 0 0 HIV & AIDS Considerable scale-up...
Furthermore, the focus should be heavily oriented towards long-term well-being, care for multimorbidity and good quality of life. Intense research efforts continue for therapeutic and/or preventive vaccines, novel immunotherapies and a cure. This is a preview of subscription content, access via ...
Biden Administration Bars Medical Debt From Credit Scores Health care debt touches an estimated 100 million Americans, forcing them to make difficult choices. Is HIV Now Named “Lentivirus Humimdef1”? Yes. But you can still call it HIV, explains the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses...
Compliance with medical therapy remains essential for improving health outcomes in long-term illnesses like HIV and AIDS. This cross-sectional study demonstrates a sub-optimal compliance rate of 93%, the estimated level of adherence drops below the recommended threshold of 95%, which is essential fo...
The immense majority of these people are absolutely healthy, and this is the reason why these persons are called "Long term survivors" or cases of "non-progressive HIV infection" (6,126). 4.3. Even mainstream researchers state that "5-10% of HIV-infected people live for 10 years - ...
Participants also complained about the ubiquitous use of the term “clean” to designate “HIV-positive status” when negotiating sexual encounters. Typically, participants perceived this question as an effort to quickly sort “HIV-positive” from “HIV-negative.” One said,“It’s jarring when you...
And today, as both a medical student and a social media influencer, Regner provides educational resources for people living with HIV, using health campaigns and videos. “Social media provides a new platform and method to translate and communicate important topics about health and increasing health ...
Short-term incarcerations (< 30 days) pose a risk for HIV treatment disruption, one that may be avoided in patients who are on LAIs before entering a correctional facility [91]. Cabotegravir/rilpivirine injections may be difficult to initiate in jail or short-term treatment settings because...
together with the busyness of an acute hospital medical ward limited the extent and depth of the interview responses. Fourth, we only included people who had been prescribed ART for 24 months, and thus we may have missed the opportunity to identify factors associated with early disengagement in ...