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email article A therapeutic HIVACAT T-cell immunogen (HTI) vaccine regimen was safe, and about 40% of recipients were able to stay off antiretroviral therapy (ART) for several months, a researcher said. In a first-in-human phase I/II randomized trial that began with 45 participants, eight of 20 participants receiving the vaccine successfully went 22 weeks without ART, compared with one who received placebo, reported Beatriz Mothe, MD, of IrsiCaixa Institute for AIDS Research in Badalona, Spain. Moreover, five vaccine participants and one placebo participant maintained viral loads of les...

UNAIDS The Central African Republic has made significant progress in its response to HIV over the past four years. New HIV infections continue to decline and the number of people on antiretroviral therapy has increased from less than 25 000 in 2016 to more than 47 000 in 2019. Despite this progress, the Central African Republic remains far from the 90-90-90 targets. Less than half of the 100 000 people living with HIV in the country have access to treatment and the government estimates that less than 20% of people on treatment have an undetectable viral load. For those who are on treatment, t...

Merck co. and an American laboratory reported promising results in trials of a drug administered orally to fight COVID-19.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Change of strategy could improve health of women living with HIV in the region Screening women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa for cervical precancer using a molecular test is much more accurate than traditional methods and could reduce costly and inconvenient procedures, according to new research published in PLoS Medicine. The study, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in partnership with the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute in South Africa and Montpellier Univ...

Over the past year we've had to learn a baffling new language.  The politicians, scientists and specialist correspondents seem to take their cue from Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking-Glass.  Words mean whatever they want them to mean.  If you struggle to tell your pandemics from your pangolins, and you don't know your R-rate from your elbow bump, this column has compiled a comprehensive A-Z guide to Covid-19.  Enjoy...   If you struggle to tell your pandemics from your pangolins, and you don't know your R-rate from your elbow bump, this column has compiled a comprehe...