Il trend delle nuove infezioni da Hiv resta stabile ma si arriva a una diagnosi sempre più tardi. La maggioranza dei contagi è dovuta a rapporti non protetti, tra gli italiani aumentano i nuovi casi tra i maschi omosessuali mentre negli stranieri la prima via di trasmissione è quella eterosessuale.

I casi sono in aumento dell’80% rispetto al 2004 e il 2013 è stato un anno record.

A group of community organisations working on HIV prevention
have called for the NHS to speed up it processes and make pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) available to those at the highest risk of acquiring HIV. The
organisations point to the continued high rate of new infections and say there
is an urgent need to improve

A group of community organisations working on HIV prevention
have called for the NHS to speed up it processes and make pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) available to those at the highest risk of acquiring HIV. The
organisations point to the continued high rate of new infections and say there
is an urgent need to improve

A group of community organisations working on HIV prevention
have called for the NHS to speed up it processes and make pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) available to those at the highest risk of acquiring HIV. The
organisations point to the continued high rate of new infections and say there
is an urgent need to improve

A group of community organisations working on HIV prevention
have called for the NHS to speed up it processes and make pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) available to those at the highest risk of acquiring HIV. The
organisations point to the continued high rate of new infections and say there
is an urgent need to improve

Most people with chronic hepatitis B who are
treated with tenofovir for eight years continued to maintain viral suppression,
researchers reported at the American
Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting earlier this month in
Boston, United States. Serological response rates continued to increase
over time and kidney and bone-related side-effects remained

Nella Giornata mondiale contro Aids, Apple lancia una campagna di sostegno all’iniziativa ‘Red’ del cantante Bono. Disponibili 25 app tra le più popolari, il cui ricavato sarà devoluto al Fondo globale per la lotta contro la malattia.

A US study
presented at last month’s HIV Research for Prevention conference found generally
positive responses among people with HIV and clinic staff to a trial that used
$70 gift tokens as an incentive for people to attend clinic regularly,
refill their HIV treatment drug prescriptions, and maintain an undetectable viral load.
However, the
study found

 
A 12-week oral combination
of sofosbuvir plus the experimental NS5A inhibitor GS-5816 demonstrated high
sustained virological response rates for people with difficult-to-treat HCV
genotype 3 and other genotypes, according to phase 2 study findings presented at
the American Association for the Study of Liver
Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting last week in Boston. Reducing treatment duration