HIV prevention & treatment - Reasons to rejoice & remain vigilant

Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission

In Iran 8% of HIV- infected cases are women. Since most of them are young and in childbearing ages, in case of becoming pregnant and not receiving preventive measures, they can infect their child. Without Preventive measures transmission rate is 15 to 45 percent. Several factors such as sever stage of HIV and AIDS ,CD4 low count, high viral loud, acute retroviral phase, STDs, vaginal delivery, ...

The Threat of Zika Virus in Sub-Saharan Africa – The Need to Remain Vigilant

1 Tanga Research Centre, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania, 2 Global Health Institute, Gouverneur Kinsbergen Centrum, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, 3 Division of Livestock and Human Diseases Vector Control, Tropical Pesticides Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 4 Department of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of He...

Remedicalizing an epidemic: from HIV treatment as prevention to HIV treatment is prevention.

Bold claims of a ‘paradigm shift’ at the recentWorld AIDS Conference signal a striking remedicalization of our approach to the HIV epidemic and a return to the early 1980s view of the epidemic as a medical problem best addressed by purely technical, biomedical solutions whose management should be left to biomedical professionals and scientists [1]. This is reflected in the assertion by the outg...

HIV treatment for prevention

"No virus, no transmission." Studies have repeatedly shown that viral load (the quantity of virus present in blood and sexual secretions) is the strongest predictor of HIV transmission during unprotected sex or transmission from infected mother to child. Effective treatment lowers viral load to undetectable levels. If one could identify and treat all HIV-infected people immediately after infect...

HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.