Category Archives: Reports and Studies

HIV treatment (ART) survey

ART use and non use

ART use and non-use: an anonymous online survey

Experienced researchers from the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH), UNSW, Australia would like to invite people living with HIV (PLHIV) to participate an online survey. The survey is anonymous and will take about 30-45 minutes to self-complete.

If you are aged 18 years or above, living with HIV in Australia, we would like your help! Participation is voluntary. If you wish to take part in the survey, please click the following link artuse.csrh.org , which will direct you to the study webpage. (more…)

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Zero transmissions in first two years of study

World Aids Day 2014 Getting to ZeroAt the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in March 2014,  a team of European researchers presented some exciting interim results from the Partner Study.

The interim findings show that after 2 years there are no cases of HIV transmission between couples where the positive partner has a viral load under 200 copies/ml. This was the case regardless of the type of sex (eg anal or vaginal sex). (more…)

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Credit card size test

A credit card-sized chip can diagnose HIV infection and provide T cell counts to guide treatment, according to a recent paper in Science Translational Medicine. The fluid-processing chip provides accurate test results in less than 20 minutes using a single drop of blood that goes directly into the testing chamber and does not require trained handling. (more…)

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An update on HIV treatments

The 14th European AIDS Conference was held in Brussels in October of this year.

Professor Francois Raffi of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Nantes presented Antiretroviral therapy — new strategies or new drugs? in the closing lecture of the conference. He spoke about a range of new medications and strategies that are currently being trialled to treat HIV.

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