Category: HIV Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DURHAM, N.C. – Using mRNA technology like that in the COVID-19 vaccines, researchers have demonstrated a successful way to deliver a potential HIV vaccine, researchers at Duke Human Vaccine Institute report.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Some people become seriously ill when infected with SARS-CoV-2 while others have only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Using powerful tools and techniques developed in the field of structural biology, researchers at the University of Washington and Scripps Research have discovered new details about the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UCLA researchers presented today the first case of a U.S. woman living with HIV-1 that is in remission after she received a new combination of specialized stem cell transplants for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – While most people living with HIV have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, younger and Black individuals are hesitant to get vaccinated and have lower vaccination rates

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New UCLA-led research in mice suggests that adding a certain type of tomato concentrate to the diet can reduce the intestinal inflammation that is associated with HIV.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Racial bias among health care providers may limit the number of Black women who could be taking a daily pill to prevent HIV infection, according to a Rutgers-led study.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Just a generation ago, millions of people infected with HIV faced the likelihood of eventually dying from AIDS. Then breakthrough treatments turned HIV infection into a largely treatable condition.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new clinical trial designed by Maile Young Karris, MD, internal medicine physician and infectious disease specialist at UC San Diego Health, seeks to discover whether people living with HIV….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Bethesda, Md. – Researchers have discovered a way to potentially eliminate HIV-1 infection in infected individuals by using a new type of antibody-based therapeutics

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Kids are heading back into the classroom after a year like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 12, 2021 – States with low initial use of HIV-prevention drugs are continuing to fall behind in usage among people at risk for the disease, a new study finds.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – June 27 is National HIV Testing Day, a reminder to get tested and know your HIV status.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Just a generation ago, millions of people infected with HIV faced the likelihood of eventually dying from AIDS. Then breakthrough treatments turned HIV infection into a largely treatable condition.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – HIV prevention services will be combined with access to gender-affirming hormonal therapy and peer health navigation to try to reduce the disproportionate percentage of transgender women who are HIV positive….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Stigma and discrimination, such as homophobia and racism, impede engagement in HIV prevention and use of biomedical tools for treatment in both HIV-negative and HIV-positive gay and bisexual men, according to a Rutgers study.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, April 5, 2021 — When people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) develop high blood pressure, the type of medication chosen for their initial treatment may influence their risk of heart disease, stroke and heart failure

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHAPEL HILL, NC – A team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine discovered an important vulnerability of the AIDS-causing retrovirus HIV, and has shown in preclinical experiments that a widely used diabetes drug, metformin, seems able to exploit this vulnerability.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — How to get good information to the people who need it is a question that has long plagued public health officials.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ALBANY, N.Y. (Feb 3, 2021) – New researh examined the relationship between HIV infection and COVID-19 – finding that through the middle of 2020, people diagnosed with HIV infection were significantly more likely to contract, be hospitalized with and die from COVID-19.