Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — The Infectious Diseases Society of America Foundation named Edsel Salvana, MD, DTM&H, FDCP, FIDSA, its ...

HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) can emerge with use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for HIV treatment and prevention. The increasing prevalence of drug-resistant HIV strains poses a serious threat to the ...

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, July 10th, 2001 – A study presented today at the 1st International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment shows that Virco’s resistance tests can predict ...

Peter L. Salgo, MD: Individualizing care, individualizing any patient’s regimen, starts with what? How do you identify who needs this? How do you identify how urgent this is? Is it the HIV RNA level, ...

Drug-resistant HIV at levels too low to be detected by standard tests is not unusual and may contribute to treatment failure, according to research published in PLoS Medicine. Mutations in the AIDS ...

HIV virus is one of the most pressing health concerns facing the modern world. Since the first reported case of HIV/AIDS in 1981, over 25 million people have died. Out of the millions of people ...

Genotypic assays to detect HIV drug resistance are recommended for use in the routine clinical care of HIV-infected persons. Genotypic resistance assays have demonstrated good clinical utility, ...

Dolutegravir plus lamivudine demonstrates noninferiority to the standard-of-care three-drug regimen in treatment-naive patients with HIV without preliminary drug resistance testing. Researchers ...

Among 206 people visiting a county HIV clinic between 2006 and 2013, there was an overall 17.5% prevalence of transmitted drug resistance. Researchers investigating the prevalence of HIV transmitted ...

Increasing the volume, strengthening the quality, and proactively using data of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) load testing are pivotal to limiting the threat of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) ...

Between 25 and 30 percent of HIV-infected patients have a resistant strain of the virus which is not curable by current medications, but a recent Cornell study found that a new drug may be able to ...

HIV treatment has come a long way since the first reported case of AIDS in 1981. In the early days of AIDS, there were no drugs available to fight the immune deficiency that caused AIDS-related ...