medicalcondition:hiv infection

Scientists on brink of HIV cure - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10022664/Scientists-on-brink-of-HIV-cure.html

Fifteen patients are currently taking part in the trials, and if they are found to have successfully been cured of HIV, the “cure” will be tested on a wider scale.

(...) The technique uses drugs called HDAC Inhibitors, which are more commonly used in treating cancer, to drive out the HIV from a patient’s DNA. The Danish researchers are using a particularly powerful type of HDAC inhibitor called Panobinostat.

#sida #recherche #santé via @zackieachmat qui ajoute : “read fine-print: not for at least 5 year & only 15 study patients”

Dépistage du #sida : 60% des jeunes Américains ignorent leur séropositivité - Maxisciences
http://www.maxisciences.com/sida/depistage-du-sida-60-des-jeunes-americains-ignorent-leur-seropositivit

Selon les autorités sanitaires américaines, près de 60% des jeunes Américains âgés de 13 à 24 ans ignorent qu’ils sont infectés par le #VIH.

C’est un constat préoccupant qu’a révélé mardi un rapport publié par les autorités sanitaires américaines. Celui-ci révèle que près de 60% des Américains âgés de 13 à 24 ans ignorent qu’ils sont infectés par le VIH. Les Centre fédéraux de contrôle et de prévention des maladies américains (CDC pour Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) précisent que ces jeunes Américains représentent 26% des nouvelles infections chaque année aux #Etats-Unis et 7% du 1,1 million d’Américains vivant avec le virus du sida.

Le rapport cité par l’AFP souligne que les chiffres de 2010 montrent que, parmi ces jeunes, les homosexuels, les bisexuels et les Noirs sont les plus touchés par le VIH. D’un point de vue ethnique, on constate que 20% des infections concernent des Blancs et des hispaniques tandis que 57% concernent des Noirs. Du point de vue de la sexualité, près de 75% des 12.200 nouvelles infections par le VIH annuellement recensées chez les 13-24 ans sont dues à des relations homosexuelles. Les homosexuels hommes courent en effet un risque nettement plus élevé d’infection que les hétérosexuels notamment en raison de relations multiples souvent non-protégées, relèvent les CDC.

AIDS Spreading Fast Across East Europe | Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/aids-spreading-fast-across-east-europe

Eastern Europe and Central Asia (..) has the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic.

Punitive drug policies, #discrimination and problems with #access to medicines and important therapy are all driving an epidemic which is unlikely to be contained, world experts say, until governments in countries with the worst problems change key policies and approaches to the disease.

#vih #sida #santé #drogues #europe_de_l'est #médicaments

War on drugs prevents end to AIDS, by Evan Wood, Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/drugs+prevents+AIDS/7005785/story.html

It’s clear that aggressive drug law enforcement strategies by governments continue to drive the HIV epidemic
 
Remarkably, the group among the most hard hit by HIV/AIDS is largely absent from the 19th International AIDS Conference. People addicted to intravenous drug use suffer extreme human rights abuses under a myriad of misguided policies in many areas of the world, and are barred entry to the United States. To add further injury, the issue of drug addiction has received scant attention at the conference, especially when compared to the impact it has on driving HIV infection.

#drogue #sida #santé

Aging HIV/AIDS Survivors Create New Class of Patients
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/health/-Older-HIVAIDS-Survivors-Create-New-Class-of-Patients--146423535.html?

Many of the people receiving [ARV] treatment who are now in their forties are expected to live well into their sixties. (...)
“We are now in a lucky situation that people infected with HIV in Africa and sub-Saharan Africa live to old ages,” said Barnighausen.  “But with this prediction comes the challenge to prepare health and social systems to adequately respond to this new population, which will come into being over the coming decades.”

Dr. Barnighausen says these people will have special disease burdens, and their treatment will require special expertise.  For instance, new clinical trials are needed to learn whether antiretroviral treatments could interfere with drugs that HIV patients might be taking for other chronic conditions, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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“We are seeing that people are developing certain types of cancers at a higher rate - the combination of HIV and the treatment for HIV is leading to higher rates for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Osteoporosis,” Simmonds noted.

#santé #sida #traitements

Cash payments help cut HIV infection rate in young women, study finds | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/15/cash-payments-cut-hiv-infection

Regular small cash payments to girls and young women can enable them to resist the attentions of older men and avoid HIV infection,

#sexe_transactionnel #sida #santé via @mona

#HIV Cost Effectiveness | Prevention Programs | CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/preventionprograms/ce/index.htm

#sida #santé #économie #prévention : les bases de calcul du rapport coût/efficacité

Quarraisha Abdool Karim: #HIV onslaught ‘decimating’ teenage girls in #South_Africa | Science Speaks: HIV & TB News
http://sciencespeaksblog.org/2011/03/09/karim-hiv-onslaught-‘decimating’-teenage-girls-in-south-africa

in #KwaZulu-Natal, what we are seeing is high, high incidence rates, driven by the age-sex difference with many women acquiring HIV almost around sexual debut, at 14 or 15 years. By the age of 20, one in three women is already infected with HIV. By the time they are 25, it’s one in two. You cannot sustain this kind of onslaught on our communities.

#femmes #sida #santé #épidémiologie