Prevention
Positive Correlation Between Antiretroviral Therapy and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV infection and food insecurity have created a vicious cycle in sub-Saharan Africa. Those who go hungry tend to engage in more risky sexual behaviors, and those infected with HIV/AIDS are more likely to go hungry because their illness prevents them from finding work. A team of researchers at UCSF and Massachusetts General Hospital conducted […]
HIV Drug Truvada’s Effectiveness Reaffirmed
Could we see the end of HIV/AIDS epidemic in our lifetime? Researchers are getting closer to a possible cure. Truvada, a drug that has long been used as treatment for HIV-positive patients, is also the first and only FDA-approved medication to prevent HIV. Researcher Robert Grant of the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes conducted a study that […]
Career AIDS Scientist Launches New Push Against CMV and Kaposi’s
The scourges of immune-compromised HIV patients have always included opportunistic, chronic infection with other viruses — among them the herpes viruses that cause Kaposi’s sarcoma and chronic cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Before antiretroviral therapy became effective and widely available in the United States, Kaposi’s sarcoma — a form of cancer — was common and sometimes a […]
When AIDS Came to Uganda
More from Moses Kamya, MB, ChB, MMed, MPH, PhD, a professor and chair of the department of medicine at Makerere University in Kampala Uganda, who talks about AIDS and its effect in Uganda. Here he talks about the first case of AIDS he saw in Uganda, a friend and medical student in his class came […]
PEPFAR from a U.S. Perspective
In the last video we looked at the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) from the perspective of a doctor in a recipient country. Here we talk to Ambassador Mark Dybul, who co-directs the Global Health Law Program at Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, where he is also a […]
Whoopi Goldberg Urges Better TB Prevention for Children with HIV
Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg was a featured speaker during the Friday symposia session “Looking to the Future in HIV and TB,” urging better TB prevention for children.
Goldberg, a UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador, is a longtime advocate of people living with HIV. Friday’s address focused on HIV’s effect on children, who become especially vulnerable to contracting severe, often fatal, forms of TB.
Finally: An “Incidence Test” that Works?
With calls for more implementation research and public investment in HIV prevention, how can we measure whether prevention programs in the real world are working?
For years, prevention and surveillance programs have sought a simple blood test to use in population surveys that would determine how many in the population had been recently infected with HIV. Past incidence tests (like the “BED” test) have failed to deliver because they have over-counted, misclassifying some long term HIV infected people as “recent.”
