Gus Cairns Published: 26 August 2014 A novel and relatively simple vaccine that can be administered orally has managed to completely block rectal infection with SIV, the monkey equivalent of HIV, in rhesus macaques and produced rapid re-suppression of viral load in monkeys who were previously infected with SIV. The vaccine, whose success at blocking infection was described … [Read more...]
Keep HIV treatment information in our clinics: March Update
Dear SSHA Members, I am writing to update you about our campaign to Keep HIV treatment information in our clinics. I am also writing to seek your help to ensure people living with HIV attending your services can continue have access to high quality information about their treatment and care. Update Unfortunately, due to a significant reduction in funding as a result of … [Read more...]
Keep HIV treatment information in our clinics
Dear Colleague, I am writing to update you about our campaign to Keep HIV treatment information in our clinics. I am also writing to seek your help to ensure people living with HIV attending your services can continue have access to high quality information about their treatment and care. Update At the end of March this year, amidst the overhaul of commissioning … [Read more...]
ALERT : High risk of loss of NAM’s treatment information publications from your clinic
There is a high risk that the service NAM has offered your clinics – providing information resources free of charge for well over a decade – will have to be withdrawn at the end of June. Pledge your support www.aidsmap.com/support-nam NAM lost its NHS funding to provide free information resources at the end of March. Currently, none of the commissioning structures … [Read more...]
Rapid ‘combination’ test fails to detect many cases of acute HIV infection
Roger Pebody Published: 06 January 2012 A rapid, point-of-care test, which aims to reduce the ‘window period’ through the detection of both antibodies and p24 antigen has poor performance in a clinical setting, researchers report in an article published online ahead of print by the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Whilst the test reliably identified people with established … [Read more...]