Linee guida 2014 sul trattamento dell’HIV/AIDS
L’edizione del 2014 propone particolari novità sul perché, quando e come la cART, sul mantenimento in cura, sul trattamento della coinfezione HIV/HCV, sui costi della cART e i farmaci equivalenti.
Maxirisarcimenti per il sangue infetto
Assegno da 100mila euro a chi si ammalò dopo la trasfusione.
Ma c’è chi dice no di Benedetta Salsi
Ma c’è chi dice no di Benedetta Salsi
One million people with hepatitis C in the US at high priority for treatment
An
estimated 813,000 people with diagnosed hepatitis C in the US have undergone
liver disease staging and meet the ‘highest’ or ‘high’ priority criteria for
immediate treatment, according to an analysis presented at the American Association for the Stu…
Many hepatitis C patients with cirrhosis or advanced fibrosis face liver failure and liver cancer
Nearly one-third of chronic hepatitis C patients
with liver cirrhosis and 12% with advanced fibrosis progressed to
decompensation within five years, and 23% and 11%, respectively, died,
according to a study presented at the
American Association for the…
Strategies to improve male partner involvement in microbicide research needed
Vaginal
microbicides were partially developed in response to power differentials within
sexual relationships and gender norms that make it difficult for women to
negotiate other forms of HIV protection, as it can be used without the male
partner’s knowledge, consent or compliance. However, evidence presented at the HIV Research for Prevention
conference (R4P) held in
UK government halves the budget of HIV prevention programme for England
The Department of Health’s funding for HIV Prevention
England, the national HIV prevention programme in England, will be cut by 50%
from April 2015. This will have a significant impact on local prevention and
testing services and on the dozens of organisations that act as local delivery
partners.NAT (National AIDS Trust) has described the
UK government halves the budget of HIV prevention programme for England
The Department of Health’s funding for HIV Prevention
England, the national HIV prevention programme in England, will be cut by 50%
from April 2015. This will have a significant impact on local prevention and
testing services and on the dozens of organisations that act as local delivery
partners.NAT (National AIDS Trust) has described the
Smoking doubles risk of death for patients taking HIV therapy
Smoking doubles
the mortality risk for people with HIV taking antiretroviral therapy, a
study published in AIDS shows.
Smokers had an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and
non-AIDS-related cancers, and the life expectancy of a 35-year-old man with HIV
was reduced by almost eight years due to smoking.
“Smoking was
associated with a two-fold
No new HIV infections seen among Kaiser PrEP users
No new HIV infections have
occurred among more than 500 users of the Kaiser Permanente healthcare provider
system in the US in members using pre-exposure prophylaxis — better known as
PrEP.
However, condom use appears to be
declining among a subset of…
HIV most often passed on by younger gay men who have undiagnosed HIV, are not on treatment, and have an ongoing partnership
A modelling study based on the UK’s HIV epidemic among gay
men estimates that two-thirds of infections originate in men with undiagnosed
HIV, 85% in men who are not taking treatment and 90% within the context of an
ongoing sexual partnership. Moreover, HIV transmissions most frequently involve
men under the age of 35 who
