Participants in HIV cure trials will increasingly need to consider stopping antiretroviral treatment. This will be the only sure way to know if a cure strategy really works. In the U=U era, when HIV treatment is increasingly effective and easy to take, treatment interruption needs to be thoughtfully approached. An analytical treatment interruption, or ATI…
Undetectable equals Untransmittable. Three powerful words that have come to symbolise a transformative development in HIV treatment. From the fear and stigma of the early days of the HIV epidemic and through the era of HIV treatment, U=U has the potential to shift perceptions of what it means to live with HIV. For people living…
A promising study of a combination approach to HIV cure featured at last month’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in the US. The study looked at the impact of a broadly neutralising antibody (bNAb) together with an immune-activating compound in monkeys. Headed by Dan Barouch from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, the…
Researchers have revealed a new way to understand the HIV that stays in the body during therapy. The group from Sydney’s Westmead Institute for Medical Research have developed a technique for detailing HIV at a molecular level. Bonnie Hiener and colleagues, led by Associate Professor Sarah Palmer, published the study in the journal Cell Reports…
HIV remission, or long-term HIV control off treatment, is the most likely next step towards an HIV cure. But in the era of effective ART and the U=U (undetectable = untransmissible) message, what would this mean for people living with HIV? Remission discussion We hosted a panel discussion at the 2017 Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference in…
There is no cure for HIV. Researchers worldwide are working on different ways to get rid of the virus. We wanted to know how people living with HIV feel about being involved in this type of research. We undertook a short survey on what issues would affect the decision to take part. This survey is…
Scientists from the US have announced an improved way to detect hidden HIV. The group of Professor Phalguni Gupta at the University of Pittsburgh describe a new test for measuring latent HIV. Published in Nature Medicine, the test could be used to see how effective an HIV cure strategy is. Why is a new test…
HIV infection takes a heavy toll on the gut. The virus enters the body and heads straight for the stomach and intestines. This is harmful, destroying most of the immune cells that live in the gut. This early damage sets the scene for some of the big problems of ongoing HIV infection. One of these…
Do I have to answer every question? If there are any questions you do not want to answer please just skip them. Your answers to the questions you have completed will be still be valid and used in the survey analysis and report. If you are uncomfortable answering any questions please just leave them blank…
Only four individuals out of nearly 5000 people receiving care at US military health facilities were found to exhibit immune control of HIV after starting antiretroviral therapy (ART), achieving viral suppression and interrupting treatment, according to a presentation at IDWeek 2015 last month in San Diego. A recently published related study identified several biomarkers that…
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