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More than half of people who received a pair of broadly neutralising antibodies (bnAbs) plus the immune-modulating drug N-803 (Anktiva) had delayed viral rebound or maintained a low or suppressed ...
The 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2025) in Kigali, Rwanda has been dominated by the impact of the US government funding cuts. Especially urgent are discussions on ...
One year ago, UNAIDS announced that the HIV response was at a critical crossroads. Apart from a handful of countries, the world was not on track to meet the ambitious 2030 goals: 95% of those ...
Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment, according to a pair of posters presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI ...
It’s rare in any branch of medicine that a trial of a new drug can report 100% efficacy, and a first in HIV science. But that’s what happened on Friday, when Gilead Sciences announced that no HIV ...
A symposium at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024) earlier this month included presentations advocating changes in practice on what might be called opposite ends of ...
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) could in theory stop the majority of HIV transmissions that still happen, and in some places, including England, is doing so. Yet worldwide, it is still only being ...
Lifetime risk of acquiring HIV has decreased for Black gay and bisexual men in the US, from 1 in 2 from 2010 to 2014 to 1 in 3 from 2017 to 2021, according to data presented to the Conference on ...
A programme in rural Kenya and Uganda that has already demonstrated that a dynamic, person-centred HIV prevention intervention results in substantial increases in the numbers of people covered by PrEP ...
Two antiretrovirals with the potential for once-weekly oral dosing were unveiled at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024) in Denver on Monday.
A positive diagnosis continues to be a source of isolation and stigma for people living with HIV, especially among trans people, younger people and women. Findings from the UK’s largest survey of ...
As HIV RNA tests become ever more capable of detecting minute quantities of the virus, health care providers and laboratories should be more mindful of how viral load results can be misinterpreted in ...