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Tuberculosis vulnerability of people with HIV: Viral protein implicated
According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis accounts for one in three deaths among people living with HIV. In fact, even when receiving effective antiretroviral treatment, HIV-positive individuals are 15 to 30 ...
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An HIV outbreak in Maine shows the risk of Trump's crackdown on homelessness and drug use
Penobscot County, Maine, is grappling with the largest HIV outbreak in the state's history. Home to Bangor, a city of roughly 32,000, the county has identified 28 new cases over nearly two years. That's seven times the typical ...
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How HIV enters the genome—study decodes previously unknown mechanism
Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 selects its integration targets in the human genome. A research team ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Physician-led HIV care pilot drives uptake in testing and treatment, according to report
An initiative to reshape HIV care in general practice across London has been hailed a success after notable increases in HIV testing and statin prescribing.
Sep 10, 2025
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Ending HIV/AIDS program would increase new HIV infections 49% nationwide by 2030, computer model predicts
When the U.S. Congress passed the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act in August 1990, it honored a young man who had acquired HIV from a blood transfusion five years earlier at age 13.
Sep 9, 2025
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Bursting HIV's bubble: A new workflow to study HIV-1 genome-containing capsids
40 million people live with HIV globally, and that number continues to rise. While therapies exist to reduce the amount of HIV in a patient's body and, in turn, reduce HIV symptoms, there remains no cure. Engineering better ...
Sep 8, 2025
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The US will buy 2 million doses of an HIV prevention drug for low-income countries
The U.S. is purchasing enough doses of a new twice-a-year HIV prevention shot to share with up to 2 million people in poor countries by 2028, the State Department announced Thursday.
Sep 5, 2025
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HIV and Alzheimer's pathways collide: Protein fragment disrupts virus assembly in brain cells
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a surprising molecular link between HIV-1 and a protein fragment associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Sep 3, 2025
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For many with HIV, drugs lifted their death sentence. Now they must face old age.
Past a smoldering pile of trash and two bleating goats, through a doorway beginning to buckle beneath the weight of the bricks above, is a darkened room where a skeletal, 70-year-old man lies on a pillowless bed above a floor ...
Sep 2, 2025
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Monthly pill shows potential as pre-exposure prophylaxis HIV drug candidate
A new HIV antiretroviral shows promise as a long-acting, oral prophylactic agent, according to a new study by Izzat Raheem, Tracy Diamond and colleagues from Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, U.S., published in the open-access ...
Aug 26, 2025
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How HIV uses T cells to hide in the gut
Antiretroviral treatments for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) have been extremely successful in extending life expectancy and reducing transmission. But one major challenge has so far prevented researchers from developing ...
Aug 22, 2025
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Comorbidities in HIV: Big data study reveals molecular links
Why do people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) often suffer from cardiovascular, liver, and other comorbidities? Researchers at the Center for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM) investigated this ...
Aug 21, 2025
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Setback in the fight against pediatric HIV
For more than 20 years, Harvard infectious disease specialist Roger Shapiro has fought HIV on the ground in Botswana, where the rate of infection exceeded 30% in some areas of the country in the 1990s.
Aug 20, 2025
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Social media videos could boost HIV prevention among teens and young adults
Adolescents and young adults say they want to learn about HIV prevention the same way they learn about new tunes, life hacks, and the latest slang—on social media, according to a new study led by physician-scientists at ...
Aug 19, 2025
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Conditional cash transfers can significantly reduce AIDS incidence, mortality among Brazil's most vulnerable women
The world's largest conditional cash transfer program, the Bolsa Família Program (BFP), is associated with a substantial reduction in AIDS cases and deaths, especially among brown and black women with lower income and limited ...
Aug 11, 2025
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Recommendations for improving Black women HIV care and racial equity
UConn Health Disparities Institute share their insights about the national Black Women First Initiative and the path forward to improved care for Black women with HIV.
Aug 7, 2025
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Dual studies reveal early successes for mRNA HIV vaccine strategies
HIV vaccine efforts have been slowed by the difficulty of getting neutralizing antibodies to target the correct locations of the diverse variants of HIV. Neutralizing antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system ...
'One and done': A single shot at birth may shield children from HIV for years
A new study in Nature shows that delivering a single injection of gene therapy at birth may offer years-long protection against HIV, tapping into a critical window in early life that could reshape the fight against pediatric ...
Jul 30, 2025
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Scientists capture HIV-1 viral cores entering the nucleus in unprecedented detail
In a recent landmark study, scientists have unveiled how HIV-1 penetrates the cell's nuclear barrier—a discovery that could reshape antiviral strategies. The research, led by Professor Peijun Zhang, eBIC director at Diamond, ...
Jul 21, 2025
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Study suggests some maternal HIV infections may be missed during pregnancy
Newborns exposed to HIV during pregnancy or birth should receive preventive antiretroviral medication immediately after delivery to reduce the risk of transmission from mother to child.
Jul 16, 2025
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US cuts to HIV aid could lead to 4 million deaths, UN warns
Global deaths from AIDS have dropped to their lowest levels in more than 30 years, in part due to efforts to fight HIV. But U.S. funding cuts could soon reverse that progress, experts warn.
Jul 11, 2025
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Poorer countries granted access to HIV prevention drug
Lower-income countries will gain access to a "game-changing" HIV prevention drug with a new deal signed between US pharmaceutical giant Gilead and the Global Fund, the health financing group said Wednesday.
Jul 9, 2025
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We have drugs to manage HIV. So why are we spending millions looking for cures?
Over the past three decades, there have been amazing advances in treating and preventing HIV.
Jul 1, 2025
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Hidden bias may leave women and older adults underdiagnosed for HIV in Spain
A recent study analyzes the extent to which HIV tests are conducted following the diagnosis of an HIV indicator condition (IC) in primary care, as recommended by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease ...
Jul 1, 2025
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Gene therapy may be key to permanently putting HIV into dormant state
In a study of human immune cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say a molecule within HIV itself can be manipulated and amplified to force the virus into long-term dormancy, ...
Jun 25, 2025
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