About 30% of people with HIV infected in the US are also infected with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). As the symptoms of HCV usually appear within six to nine weeks after exposure, according to researchers from Brown University, HCV is one of leading cause of morbidity and mortality for HIV-infected persons ...

People with HIV infection most common treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART) for their medication. However, antiretroviral drugs used in pregnancy women may have serious implications to mother's utero, which is leading to impaired the heart growth of their children in later life. This suggestion based on comparison between two multisite cohort studies ...

Three clinical trials established in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda in 2005 and 2006 has been showed that male circumcision (removal foreskin of the penis both some or all) can reduce the risk of HIV infection in men through heterosexual sex by up to 60%. As supporting evidences, therefore, the ...

There were few data on the histology to explain why common abnormal liver enzymes occurred in HIV infected patients, even in the absence of viral hepatitis or others trigger factors. Therefore, the researchers recently investigate HIV-positive patients with abnormal liver function test, but without viral hepatitis, diabetes, or high levels of ...

A new findings suggest for re-examinating the guidelines for HIV treatment among HIV-infection infants with tuberculosis (TB). Reported on October 7 in AIDS, the findings said that the concurrent use of protease inhibitors and anti-tuberculosis treatment for children with HIV-TB co-infection may increase the risk of HIV treatment failures. According to the ...

The issues of side effect of antiretroviral treatment for HIV infection treatment become important as the risk could linked to cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. Despite the evidence related to that risks remain debated, however, more clinical evidence has been showed recently regarding to osteoporosis-related from antiretroviral therapy used among patients with ...

According to the Health Protection Agency (HPA), the trend of sexual transmitted infections (STIs) in United Kingdom seen upward. Almost half a million (mean 482,696) new cases of STIs recorded in 2009. 12,000 new cases raised compared to previous year. Two-third women aged 25 to 24 were diagnosed with new ...

Although the infant not infected from maternal HIV infection exposed (HEU infant), however from recent finding that published in August 23, 2010 in Pediatric, they [infants] at increased risk for group B streptococcus (GBS) infection by 19-fold. According to the researchers, several recent articles from less affluent countries have shown an ...

Compared to men with HIV, according to recent report said that women with HIV have higher rates of adverse events from hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment. According to the lead author of study, Dr. Debika Bhattacharya from the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues, from their meta-analysis of 3 trials ...

In the international conference, AIDS 2010: XVIII International AIDS conference, a professor of dietetics and nutrition from Florida International University in Miami, Marianna K. Baum, PhD, said the supplementation with vitamin and mineral antioxidants was associated with longer survival in HIV-infected people. The positive results from those HIV-infected people included; - less ...

CD4+ T cells that are generally treated as having a pre-defined role as helper T cells within the immune system could be used to judge HIV patients' prognosis. According to new study, the one that best predicts a wide array of serious endpoints is the most recent CD4+ cell count. More than ...

On May 2010, due to supports the widespread use of antiretroviral drugs to help control the AIDS pandemic, researchers said that HIV patients who took antiretroviral therapy (ART) were far less likely to infect their partners. Reported in the Lancet, the researchers said that using the drug cocktail reduced the likelihood ...

Not only overweight and obese impact to a risk of serious health problem, recent findings also found it may influence individual risky sexual behavior. Compare with normal-weight peers, the researchers found that obese and overweight adolescent girls were more likely to have sex before the age of 13 years and to ...

Effectiveness of Acyclovir or valacyclovir among women with simplex herpes HSV-2 and HIV co-infection identified only for 2 months. Afterward, no more works. That means, it can't spread the virus. Although the trials before showed can reduce HIV viral load in ...

It is important for clinicians and the patients have comfortable conversation when discuss about the orientation and behavior of sexual including their implication related to sex matter between man to men (MSM) as those condition can cause the risk of HIV infection or transmission and syphilis disease. Recent study showed that ...

Children who infected with HIV often get prescribed by Tenofovir, a medication classed by antiretroviral drugs. However using this drug for long enough will linked to disturbance of electrolyte or known as hypophosphatemia. Even this cases found with small percentage, the researcher ...

People get stroke commonly caused by 2 factors which are by interruption of blood supply to any parts of the brain and a rupture of blood vessel. Those conditions may came from the patients who have high blood pressure, diabetes, smoker, alcohol and drug abuse. Other underappreciated factors for the risk of ...

HIV patients should be aware that their have to face new finding risks with low bone mineral density and fragility fracture. Moreover to peri-menopause or postmenopausal women with had HIV. These could be related to the therapies they had, low CD4 counts (in case of fracture), and impact of HIV itself. Based ...

Latest alert from FDA to all physicians and patients when the therapy of HIV patients used combination HIV drug with Saquinavir and Ritonavir, including drug classes IA drugs such as Quinidine, or classes III antiarrhytmic drugs such as Amiodarone, may put them ...

Although African-American both men and women made up small percentage of the U.S population, the account for HIV/AIDS more than 50% of related cases in 2007. Those statement announced by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from National Institutes of Health speech on National ...

A reverse transcriptase inhibitor that containing 2',3'-dideoxyinosine (Didanosine) often used in HIV patients treatment. However recently from evidence result, this drug have risk to death in the patient due to adverse effect with noncirrhotic portal hypertension. FDA has been warning ...

The problem of sexual dysfunction and penis size are classical problems experienced by men since long. The impact is not only to the men, but also to their partner. Too many cases of commotion and discord within couples due to this matter. In fact, sexuality screening recommended by doctors for prospective couples whose ...

In recent study that looked at a large representative sample of the US general population of women from the age of 20 to 65+ years, approxiamately 12% of HIV or AIDS infections among women in relationships were found to be ...

A study that led by Johns Hopkins researchers showed that patients infected with a particular subtype of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are more likely to develop dementia than patients with other subtypes. According to the authors of the study, this is the first to demonstrate that the specific type ...