Background: Current guidelines for the use of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy during pregnancy recommend that women be offered treatment with combination ARV therapy used in nonpregnant HIV-infected ...

Increasingly, UPMC's chief of infectious diseases - a well-regarded expert in HIV/AIDS - is contacted by a perplexed physician describing a patient with HIV who insists they are adhering to the daily ...

In the State of the Union address of January 2003, President George W. Bush announced an unprecedented five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 1 to provide highly active antiretroviral ...

CEBU CITY — The Department of Health Central Visayas (DOH-7) has assured treatment hubs and people living with HIV (PLHIV) that additional antiretroviral (ARV) medicines are expected to arrive this ...

Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, HIV infection is no longer the life sentence it once was. But despite the effectiveness of drugs to manage and treat the virus, it can never be fully eliminated from ...

More than 330,000 lives were lost to HIV/AIDS in South Africa from 2000 and 2005 because a feasible and timely antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program was not implemented, assert researchers in the ...

HIV patients have an increased risk of developing skin and mucosal cancers, even though HIV is no longer detectable in their blood due to antiretroviral therapy. A new study by MedUni Vienna's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Since the introduction of azidothymidine in 1987 there have been ...

ACC017 showed significant reductions in HIV-RNA levels in ART-naïve patients, with no viral breakthrough or adverse events reported. The safety profile of ACC017 was comparable to placebo, with no ...

HIV patients in Ghana have raised urgent concerns about an antiretroviral medicine shortage, warning of serious health risks ...