Tag: HIV
HIV: very early treatment, possible key to lasting remission, according to a study
News Published on 01/18/2024 at 4:55 p.m. Updated 01/18/2024 at 4:55 p.m. Reading 2 min. Implementing antiretroviral treatment just four weeks after HIV infection could make it possible to control…
Positive signals in the fight against HIV in South Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is still the region hardest hit by HIV in the world, it accounts for two thirds of people living with the virus (65%). But the situation is improving…
Forty years after the discovery of HIV, preconceived ideas continue to challenge science
While science offers ways to end the epidemic by 2030, the fight against AIDS still faces an old adversary: preconceived ideas. On this World AIDS Day, Sidaction recalls that prejudices…
a vaginal ring, a new prevention tool against HIV
Women will benefit from a new HIV prevention tool. This is a vaginal ring that delivers antiretroviral medication. This device may be preferred to other prevention treatments which consist of…
Frustration about waiting list for HIV medication in Utrecht: ‘Budget disproportionately small’
The GGD region Utrecht tries to first start PrEP care, where possible, and then guide people to their own GP or other providers. “We do this to give people on…
Europe and Central Asia still far from ending HIV transmission, says ECDC
In a progress report published this Friday, September 15, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) estimates that most countries in Europe and Central Asia are still far…
New preventive medicine will prevent HIV
The preventive drug PrEP, which can stop an HIV infection before it breaks out, has been approved in Sweden since 2016. The drug is available in all regions of Sweden,…
HIV: the “Geneva patient” declared in remission after a bone marrow transplant
News Published on 07/21/2023 at 12:35 p.m. Updated 07/21/2023 at 12:35 p.m. Reading 2 mins. In Geneva, Switzerland, a man has been declared in remission from HIV following a bone…
HIV, a 6th patient in remission: how his case disrupts research
The “Geneva patient” should have died twice. First in the 1990s, when he caught AIDS, a disease then synonymous with certain death, for lack of treatment limiting its multiplication in…
A new case of HIV remission after a bone marrow transplant
A man referred to as “the patient from Geneva” is in long remission from HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant that does not have a mutation known to block…