HIV infection is
associated with reduced physical performance, investigators report in the
online edition of AIDS. They also
found that people living with HIV who had reduced physical function had a
significant increase in their mortality risk.
The study population
comprised middle-aged HIV-positive and HIV-negative people in Baltimore, United States, who either currently inject drugs or

Numerosi i temi affrontati.Tra i principali: Comorbosità, ICAAC, Glasgow, EACS a Roma, Epatite C: nuovi farmaci e attivismo, Nuove sfide in Sanità. Ringraziamo Antonella Cingolani, Marco Borderi, Gioacchino Angarano, Giulio Maria Corbelli per i preziosi contributi.

Harm reduction interventions often fail to engage people who
inject drugs because they over-emphasise infection and risk, Magdalena Harris
of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the recent HIT Hot
Topics conference in Liverpool. Her interviewees frequently adopted safer
injecting practices, but were more motivated by a desire to have a

Harm reduction interventions often fail to engage people who
inject drugs because they over-emphasise infection and risk, Magdalena Harris
of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the recent HIT Hot
Topics conference in Liverpool. Her interviewees frequently adopted safer
injecting practices, but were more motivated by a desire to have a

An interferon-free
regimen of sofosbuvir plus ledipasvir (Harvoni)
taken with ribavirin for 12 or 24 weeks led to sustained virological response
in nearly all HCV genotype 1patients
with fibrosis or less-advanced liver cirrhosis, researchers reported at the American
Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Liver Meeting last month in
Boston, United States. Response rates

Regimens containing sofosbuvir
(Sovaldi) – including sofosbuvir plus
simeprevir (Olysio) – work well for people
with hepatitis C genotype 1 in real-world use, which to date has included some
of the patients most urgently in need of treatment at the dawn of the
interferon-free era, according to a pair of presentations at the American
Association for

Il trend delle nuove infezioni da Hiv resta stabile ma si arriva a una diagnosi sempre più tardi. La maggioranza dei contagi è dovuta a rapporti non protetti, tra gli italiani aumentano i nuovi casi tra i maschi omosessuali mentre negli stranieri la prima via di trasmissione è quella eterosessuale.

I casi sono in aumento dell’80% rispetto al 2004 e il 2013 è stato un anno record.

A group of community organisations working on HIV prevention
have called for the NHS to speed up it processes and make pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) available to those at the highest risk of acquiring HIV. The
organisations point to the continued high rate of new infections and say there
is an urgent need to improve

A group of community organisations working on HIV prevention
have called for the NHS to speed up it processes and make pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) available to those at the highest risk of acquiring HIV. The
organisations point to the continued high rate of new infections and say there
is an urgent need to improve