HIV Populations
People with HIV and Uninfected People Diagnosed with Age-related Diseases at Similar Ages
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- Category: HIV & Aging
- Published on Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:00
- Written by Johns Hopkins
HIV positive people are more likely than HIV negative individuals to have heart attacks and develop end-stage kidney disease and non-AIDS cancers in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy, but they do so at around the same ages, on average, according to study of U.S. veterans published in the October 30 edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
October 15 is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
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- Category: HIV Populations
- Published on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
October 15 is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day(NLAAD), an opportunity to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS among Latino and Hispanic people in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while Latinos/Hispanics make up approximately 16% of the total U.S. population, they accounted for about 21% of all new HIV infections in 2010. The incidence rate for Latinos is about 3 times higher than that of whites, with a majority of cases occurring among young men who have sex with men.
September 18 is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
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- Category: HIV & Aging
- Published on Monday, 15 September 2014 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
This Thursday, September 18, is the 7th annual National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (NHAAAD), an occasion to focus on the challenges facing the aging population regarding HIV prevention, testing, care, and treatment, as well as overall health and wellbeing for the growing population of older people living with HIV.
National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Half Untreated, Most Unaware of PrEP
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- Category: Gay & Bisexual Men/MSM
- Published on Friday, 26 September 2014 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Only 50% of gay and bi men diagnosed with HIV have started antiretroviral treatment and 42% have achieved undetectable viral load, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released ahead of National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on September 27. A related survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that while gay and bi men see HIV as a top health issue, a majority do not get tested regularly and most do not know about pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.
AIDS 2014: Mothers Starting Option B+ ART in Malawi Often Lost from Care
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- Category: Pregnancy & HIV MTCT
- Published on Friday, 22 August 2014 00:00
- Written by Carole Leach-Lemens
Although Malawi’s policy of offering lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) to women with HIV who are pregnant or breastfeeding resulted in a 7-fold increase in women receiving treatment in 15 months, implementers are concerned by high rates of loss to follow-up, researchers reported at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne.
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