Research & News
Extended Drug Regimen Cuts HIV Risk for Breastfeeding Infants
Mar 06, 2011
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study presented at the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston found that breastfeeding infants receiving daily nevirapine for six months had lower rates of HIV transmission by age 6 months than... Read More
Positive HIV Test Results in Pregnant Women
Feb 28, 2011
A recent study of HIV testing in pregnant women found that false positive HIV EIA results were rare and occurred less frequently in pregnant women. However, pregnant women with reactive EIAs were more likely to have negative and indeterminate Western blot results due to... Read More
Maternal HIV Infection and Infant Antibody Levels
Feb 22, 2011
This article explores the ways in which altered immune responses might influence the high morbidity and mortality observed in HIV-exposed uninfected infants. The authors found that among South African infants, there were lower specific antibody responses at birth as... Read More
Success of Rapid Testing in IL Presented at Recent Conference
Feb 14, 2011
Illinois Perinatal HIV Hotline staff member Amy Wong, MD, recently presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine annual meeting in San Francisco. Her poster described the successful outcomes of rapid HIV testing implementation in all birthing hospitals in Illinois.
Updated STD Treatment Guidelines Now Available
Jan 05, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated their guidelines for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. These guidelines update the 2006 Guidelines. To view the updated guidelines, click here.
HIV Testing & Screening Cost and Reimbursement Toolkit Now Available
Jan 05, 2011
The Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) now offers an online toolkit for HIV testing and screening that includes cost and reimbursement tools to assit clinical managers and individual practitioners in starting or expanding an HIV screening or diagnostic testing... Read More
Updated STD Treatment Guidelines Now Available
Jan 05, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated their guidelines for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. These guidelines update the 2006 Guidelines.
To view the updated guidelines, click here.
Hotline Presentation from 2010 National HIV Summit Now Available
Dec 09, 2010
The Hotline was part of a poster presented at the 2010 National HIV Summit on Diagnosis, Prevention, and Access to Care. All poster presentations are posted here while speaker presentations are posted here. Be sure to view the tribute to Former Surgeon General C. Everett... Read More
FDA Approves New Rapid HIV Test
Dec 02, 2010
The FDA announced that the INSTI Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test has been approved for use in the United States. This test can deliver HIV results in as little as 60 seconds, compared to the standard 10-20 minutes for other rapid HIV tests.
Press Release
Comprehensive Overview of Perinatal HIV
Nov 23, 2010
The December 2010 issue of Clinics in Perinatology offers a comprehensive review of the biology, epidemiology, and prevention of perinatal HIV transmission and includes articles on the clinical care and optimal management of a pregnant woman and her exposed or infected... Read More
