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CDC Offers Guidance on ART and Its Effects on Sexual Transmission of HIV
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have released a fact sheet regarding the effect of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on risk of sexual transmission of HIV infection and superinfection. It summarizes recent data and discusses the implications of these data to individual couples and to the…
Toddler Functionally Cured of HIV Infection
A two year-old child born with HIV infection and treated with antiretroviral drugs beginning in the first days of life no longer has detectable levels of virus using conventional testing despite not taking HIV medications for 10 months. These findings, presented at the 2013 Conference on…
FDA Approves Truvada for PrEP
The FDA released a statement that they are changing the approved uses of emtricitabine/tenofovir (brand name Truvada) to include use in prevention of HIV transmission between partners where one partner is HIV-negative and the other partner is HIV-positive. This is only to be used in high risk…
New HIV Test Approved
The FDA approved a new blood test that detects both HIV antigen and HIV antibodies. This allows, for the first time in the U.S., for the diagnosis of acute as well as chronic HIV infection.
For more information, read the FDA press release.