The field of HIV treatment and prevention has been freshly energised by the findings from several recent clinical trials.
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Five promising steps forward in HIV science
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“Mississippi Baby” Now Has Detectable HIV, Researchers Find
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NIH, July 10, 2014 uly 10, 2014 • 0 comments • By NIH Newsroom uly 10, 2014 • 0 comments • By NIH Newsroom uly 10, 2014 • 0 comments • By NIH Newsroom The child known as the “Mississippi baby”—an infant seemingly cured of HIV that was reported as a case study of a prolonged remission of HIV infection in The New England Journal of Medicine last fall—now has detectable levels of HIV after more...
Research may be beating HIV, but a vaccine remains distant
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The Conversation, 1 July 2014, 3.08pm AEST
Three decades since the onset of the infection in a global population, HIV care and treatment is looking very different.
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Chlamydia among Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people …
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BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:285 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-285 Abstract: Background Chlamydia infections are notified at much higher rates in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people compared to non-Indigenous people. The Australian Collaboration Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance System (ACCESS) was established to complement population-based surveillance. Methods We...
New video encourages LGBTI people to escape abusive relationships
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A though-provoking new online video, released yesterday, encourages LGBTI people suffering from domestic violence to “trust your instincts” and access specialist services.
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Victoria sees the highest number of new HIV diagnoses since early 1990s
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Victoria has seen the highest number of new HIV diagnoses in a single year since the height of the epidemic in the early 1990s, with experts attributing the jump to increased testing.
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