hiv treatment

In its most optimistic annual AIDS report ever, the U.N. says world AIDS deaths and new HIV infections each are down 21% since the peak of the pandemic.

But 7.6 million people who need HIV treatment still can't get it -- up 1.35 million since 2009.

New research finds that people living with HIV are less likely to pass the virus on to their partners if they begin drug treatment immediately..

(MedPage Today) -- About 10% of HIV-positive children in a European cohort were resistant to medications in all three of the original anti-retroviral drug classes, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- HIV patients new to treatment may harbor some relatively rare drug resistance mutations that can markedly reduce their chance of successful treatment, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- A large clinical trial fell short of showing that two commonly used approaches to a first anti-HIV treatment regimen are formally equivalent.

VANCOUVER (MedPage Today) -- Doctors are not jumping on the bandwagon to treat HIV-infected patients earlier in the course of disease, according to results from a U.S. survey of HIV treatment practices presented here by researchers.

VIENNA (MedPage Today) -- An HIV treatment that avoids the use of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the protease inhibitor ritonavir successfully suppressed the virus but emergence of resistance and other side effects led its sponsors to abandon the trial.

The earlier anti-HIV treatment starts, the better, according to a randomized trial from Haiti.

Home-based care can improve some aspects of HIV treatment, according to a systematic literature review, but evidence about its effect on survival is limited.

The National Institutes of Health and the D.C. Health Department are preparing this month to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could eliminate AIDS.