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AIDS Vaccine Research Subcommittee (AVRS) Consultation: Early-Life Immunization Strategies against HIV Acquisition.
This report summarizes a consultation meeting convened by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), on 12 September 2017 to discuss the scientific rationale for selectively testing relevant HIV vaccine candidates in early life that are designed to initiate immune responses for lifelong protective immunity. The urgent need to develop interventions providing durable protective immunity to HIV before sexual debut coupled with the practicality of infant vaccine schedules supports optimizing infant HIV vaccines as a high priority. The panelists discussed the unique o...
Source: Topics in HIV Medicine - July 16, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Singh A, Permar S, Kollmann TR, Levy O, Marovich M, De Paris K Tags: mSphere Source Type: research
Hepatitis B and C prevalence and risk factors among young men presenting to the Brazilian Army: A STROBE-compliant national survey-based cross-sectional observational study
This article aims to present the hepatitis B (hepatitis B surface antigen - HBsAg) and C (anti-HCV) seroprevalence estimates and risk factors as per the 8th edition of the Conscript Survey performed in 2016.
This cross-sectional study was conducted among conscripts across Brazil aged 17 to 22 years from August to December 2016. It included a self-reported questionnaire and blood testing for syphilis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and hepatitis B and C.
In total 38,247 conscripts were enrolled; after applying exclusion criteria, 37,282 conscripts were included. The estimated HBsAg and anti-HCV prevalence rates were ...
Source: Medicine - August 1, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research
Burundi: Govt Launches Ebola Vaccination Campaign for Health and Front-Line Workers
[WHO] On 13th August, the Ministry of Public Health and AIDS Control kicked off the vaccination campaign for front-line staff against the Ebola virus disease. The campaign started at the Gatumba entry point at the Border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 15, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
The US Military HIV Natural History Study: Informing Military HIV Care and Policy for Over 30 Years.
CONCLUSIONS: The US Military HIV NHS has been critical to understanding the impact of HIV infection among active-duty service members and military beneficiaries, as well as producing insights that are broadly relevant. In addition, the rich repository of NHS data and specimens serves as a resource to investigators in the DoD, NIH, and academic community, markedly increasing scientific yield and identifying novel associations. Looking forward, the NHS remains relevant to understanding host factor correlates of virologic and immunologic control, biologic pathways of HIV pathogenesis, causes and consequences of residual infla...
Source: Military Medicine - November 30, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research
Africa: How Close Are We to HIV Cure and Vaccine?
[New Times] Among the avenues that will put healthcare ahead of HIV/Aids is the development of vaccines, cures and multiple prevention mechanisms.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 9, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
HIV patients lose smallpox immunity despite childhood vaccine, AIDS drugs
(Oregon Health& Science University) HIV patients lose immunity to smallpox even though they were vaccinated against the disease as children and have had much of their immune system restored with antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Called HIV-associated immune amnesia, the finding could explain why people living with HIV still tend to have shorter lives on average than their HIV-negative counterparts despite being on antiretroviral therapy.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Earlens Taps Verily to Help Develop Next-Gen Hearing Solution
Earlens is teaming up with Verily, an Alphabet company, to help develop next-generation capabilities for a nonsurgical hearing solution. Menlo Park, CA-based Earlens said Verily would be a “natural partner.â€
"By combining our complementary sets of expertise, we aim to develop a next-generation hearing solution, as well as explore modalities for monitoring that may address conditions beyond hearing loss,†Bill Facteau, Earlens president and CEO of Earlens said in a release.
The company noted while some acoustic hearing aids have announced new AI capabilities and overall ...
Source: MDDI - January 13, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Digital Health Business Source Type: news
NIH Slated for 7 percent Budget Cut
The President has proposed a $38.7 billion budget for the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year (FY) 2021. This translates to a $3 billion or 7 percent cut in the agency’s funding compared to FY 2020.
The NIH budget request includes a $50 million initiative to use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a better understanding of the causes of chronic diseases and to identify early treatments. This plan is in line with the Administration’s “Industries of the Future” effort, which supports using and developing AI across sectors.
The budget would provide $50 million for the Childhood Cancer ...
Source: Public Policy Reports - February 18, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Housing and child health in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional analysis
by Lucy S. Tusting, Peter W. Gething, Harry S. Gibson, Brian Greenwood, Jakob Knudsen, Steve W. Lindsay, Samir Bhatt
BackgroundHousing is essential to human well-being but neglected in global health. Today, housing in Africa is rapidly improving alongside economic development, creating an urgent need to understand how these changes can benefit health. We hypothesised that improved housing is associated with better health in children living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of housing conditions relative to a range of child health outcomes in SSA. Methods and findingsCross-sectional data w...
Source: PLoS Medicine - March 22, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Lucy S. Tusting Source Type: research
Long-acting drug acts like a short-term AIDS vaccine
Source: ScienceNOW - May 20, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Cohen, J. Tags: Medicine, Diseases In Depth Source Type: news
Brazilian AIDS Patient Shows No Sign of Virus After Experimental Drug Therapy
A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors reported Tuesday.
The case needs independent verification and it’s way too soon to speculate about a possible cure, scientists cautioned.
“These are exciting findings but they’re very preliminary,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an AIDS specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. “This has happened to one person, and one person only,” and it didn’t suc...
Source: TIME: Health - July 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marilynn Marchione / AP Tags: Uncategorized HIV/AIDS News Desk wire Source Type: news
Coronavirus antibodies fall dramatically in first 3 months after mild cases of COVID-19
FINDINGSA study by UCLA researchers shows that in people with mild cases of COVID-19, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes the disease — drop sharply over the first three monthsafter infection,decreasing by roughly half every 73 days. If sustained at that rate, the antibodies would disappear within about a year.BACKGROUNDPrevious reports have suggested that antibodies against the novel coronavirus are short-lived, but the rate at which theydecrease has not been carefully defined. This is the first study to carefully estimate the rate at which the antibodies disappear.METHODThe researchers studied 20 ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 21, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Religion & the Pandemic: A Call Beyond the Here & Now
Religions for Peace Interreligious Council of Albania distributing Covid relief supplies from the Multi-religious Humanitarian Fund. Credit: Erzen CarjaBy Prof. Azza KaramNEW YORK, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) — I have never been interested in religion or spirituality before, but I found myself tuning in to all sorts of on-line religion and spirituality related forums “in search of something.”
These are the words of a 30-something single young, middle class man (born into a Protestant-Catholic family background) in a European country.
The latter is known more for turning several churches into museums or shopping centers, p...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Azza Karam Tags: Civil Society Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Religion TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Global COVID-19 Efforts as the Platform to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
AbstractPurpose of ReviewIn this commentary, we summarize and put into perspective the recent information that highlights the associations between coronavirus disease and poverty. We also bring attention to another dimension that will most likely exacerbate the severity and long-term sequelae of COVID-19 in impoverished populations, that is, the comorbidities and the presence of tropical infections.Recent FindingsDuring this first half of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a poverty-related neglected disease on at least two fronts. First, is its significant impact in low-income neighborhoods in the USA, the epicent...
Source: Current Tropical Medicine Reports - August 19, 2020 Category: Tropical Medicine Source Type: research
The impact of shared decision making with patient decision aids on the rotavirus vaccination rate in children: A randomized controlled trial
Publication date: Available online 4 September 2020Source: Preventive MedicineAuthor(s): Sheng-Chieh Lin, Ka-Wai Tam, Jean Yu-Chun Yen, Meng-Che Lu, Elaine Ying-Fang Chen, Yung-Ting Kuo, Wen-Chuan Lin, Shu-Huey Chen, El-Wui Loh, Shih-Yen Chen
Source: Preventive Medicine - September 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
