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  1. A study of awareness on HIV/AIDS among adolescents: A ...

    Almost all the research in India is based on beliefs, attitudes, and awareness of HIV among adolescents 2,12. However, few other studies worldwide have examined mass media as a strong predictor of ...

  2. A Review of Recent HIV Prevention Interventions and Future

    Approximately 1.2 million people in the United States are currently living with HIV, and an estimated 14% are infected, yet unaware of their status (Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, 2020).HIV and AIDS continue to have a disproportionate impact on certain populations, including youth—gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM)—racial and ethnic minorities ...

  3. A study of awareness on HIV/AIDS among adolescents: A Longitudinal

    This finding agrees with several previous research, and almost all the research found a positive relationship between mass-media exposure and awareness of HIV among adolescents 10. Mass media addresses such topics more openly and in a way that could attract adolescents' attention is the plausible reason for higher awareness of HIV among those ...

  4. Advances in HIV/AIDS Research

    Advances in HIV/AIDS Research. HIV virions budding and releasing from an infected cell. NIAID, NIH. For an update on what medical science is doing to fight the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, read a Parade article by NIH Director Francis S. Collins and NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, AIDS in 2010: How We're Living with HIV.

  5. Four Decades of HIV/AIDS

    Interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci on progress made during the past four decades of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and ongoing efforts to end this threat. 18m 44s Download. The dramatic saga of the acquired ...

  6. Research

    Research. CDC provides national leadership for HIV prevention research, including the development and evaluation of HIV biomedical and behavioral interventions to prevent HIV transmission and reduce HIV disease progression in the United States and internationally. CDC's research efforts also include identifying those scientifically proven ...

  7. Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection

    Penazzato, M. et al. Advancing the prevention and treatment of HIV in children: priorities for research and development. Lancet HIV 9 , e658-e666 (2022). CAS PubMed Google Scholar

  8. This is how the world finally ends the HIV/AIDS pandemic

    As new prevention tools, such as the drug cabotegravir — which protects people from HIV infection for up to two months after being injected into the body — become more widely available, health ...

  9. Experiences and Attitudes of People with HIV/AIDS: A Systematic Review

    1. Introduction. HIV is one of the main problems with regard to public health, with greater representation in developing countries [].The most affected region is Africa, where almost two thirds of new HIV infections can be found [].Worldwide, amongst the population with HIV, 54% of adults and 43% of children are currently being treated with antiretroviral therapy, with the global coverage of ...

  10. Peer- and community-led responses to HIV: A scoping review

    Introduction In June 2021, United Nations (UN) Member States committed to ambitious targets for scaling up community-led responses by 2025 toward meeting the goals of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. These targets build on UN Member States 2016 commitments to ensure that 30% of HIV testing and treatment programmes are community-led by 2030. At its current pace, the world is not likely to meet ...

  11. HIV and AIDS

    Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an infection that attacks the body's immune system. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the most advanced stage of the disease. HIV targets the body's white blood cells, weakening the immune system. This makes it easier to get sick with diseases like tuberculosis, infections and some cancers.

  12. Systematic Reviews

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducts systematic reviews using a comprehensive search of literature on HIV prevention, care, and treatment topics. The systematic review approach is an evidence-based way to synthesize the literature and expand our knowledge of factors related to HIV transmission and prevention.

  13. Reflection on 40 Years of HIV/AIDS Research

    June 5th also marks HIV Long-term Survivors Awareness Day. Over the past 40 years, HIV/AIDS has evolved from a fatal disease to a manageable chronic illness with treatment. This progress is attributable in large part to the nation's longstanding HIV leadership and contributions at home and abroad through the National Institutes of Health (NIH ...

  14. HIV: Progress and future challenges in treatment, prevention and cure

    In the early days of the HIV epidemic, high pill burden made successful adherence to treatment challenging. 5 Selective non-adherence to a regimen increases the likelihood of developing resistance ...

  15. NIH Ending the HIV Epidemic Projects Bridge Gaps Between HIV Research

    The National Institutes of Health recently issued $26M in awards to HIV research institutions in its fifth year supporting implementation science under the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. initiative. These awards are the latest investments in a program that is rapidly and rigorously generating evidence to inform the unified domestic HIV response by agencies in the Department of Health and ...

  16. Centering Women and Girls' Health in HIV Research

    Women account for approximately 23 percent of people with HIV in the United States. In recent years, women aged 25 to 34 comprised the highest number of new diagnoses. Furthermore, Black women, transgender women, and women aged 13 through 24 are more likely to experience health disparities associated with lack of access to HIV testing, treatment, and prevention resources. This weekend marked ...

  17. HIV and AIDS Resources

    HIV.gov is supported by the Minority HIV/AIDS Fund. A community informed national campaign, in English and Spanish, designed to encourage people with HIV who are not in care for HIV to seek care, stay in care, and achieve viral suppression by taking antiretroviral therapy (ART). HIV is part of a syndemic of viral hepatitis, STIs, mental health ...

  18. Knowledge and attitude towards HIV/AIDS in India: A systematic review

    Introduction. Over three decades, HIV/AIDS infected around 37.9 million people globally and is a major public health problem. 1 HIV/AIDS is the second most infectious disease globally, and India has the third largest HIV epidemic in the world. 2 Since 1992, the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, took several phases of National AIDS ...

  19. Thought Starter—Filling the Gaps in HIV Prevention Research

    The advantages of combining HIV prevention and HIV vaccine clinical research in a single network structure have been demonstrated over the past year with the launch of the AMP studies of a broadly neutralizing antibody in two large-scale, multinational efficacy trials. However, a wider application of this structural model would need to account ...

  20. Dr. LaRon Nelson on Community-Engaged Research, Future HIV Prevention

    At the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), HIV.gov caught up again with Dr. LaRon Nelson to discuss community-engaged research, HIV prevention at CROI, and a new study ( HPTN 096) he is leading to reduce HIV rates among Black men who have sex with men (inclusive of cisgender and transgender men) in the southern ...

  21. People with HIV are aging, and the challenges are piling up

    More than half of the people living with HIV in the United States are, like Reid, 50 or older. Researchers estimate that 70% of people living with the virus will fall in that age range by 2030.

  22. About Division of STD Prevention

    Accelerate Progress in STI research, prevention, and technology. 3.1 Use translational, implementation, and communication science research to identify, evaluate, scale up, and promote best practices in STI prevention and treatment in diverse settings ... 5.3 Coordinate and align efforts to address the syndemic of HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis, and ...

  23. HIV Prevention

    Clinical prevention of HIV infection and AIDS is the cornerstone of controlling the global HIV pandemic that has now killed more than 40.4 million people globally, including 1.5 million children. Two-thirds of new HIV infections occur in Africa, primarily via heterosexual sexual contact. In the United States, gay and bisexual men and people who ...

  24. Current approaches to HIV vaccine development: a narrative review

    1. INTRODUCTION. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a widespread and compelling global health threat with 38 million people living with HIV and 1.7 million new cases in 2019 [].Global deployment of antiretroviral therapy and an increasing armamentarium of non‐vaccine HIV prevention tools are being employed to combat the epidemic, but, as discussed elsewhere in this special issue, an ...

  25. New Initiative Shines a Spotlight on Women's Health in HIV Research

    The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and Office of AIDS Research (OAR), in partnership with multiple NIH institutes and centers (ICs) including NIAID, have issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research Opportunities Centering the Health of Women Across the HIV Research Continuum to invite HIV-related research that explicitly and intersectionally center the health needs ...

  26. Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV

    Perinatal transmission of HIV is when HIV is passed from a person with HIV to their child during pregnancy, childbirth (also called labor and delivery), or breastfeeding (through breast milk). Perinatal transmission of HIV is also called mother-to-child transmission of HIV and vertical transmission of HIV. The use of HIV medicines and other strategies have helped to lower the rate of perinatal ...

  27. A qualitative insight of HIV/AIDS patients' perspective on disease and

    Qualitative methodology. The use of qualitative methods is becoming more common in medical research in general and HIV/AIDS in particular. 13, 14, 15 Indeed, some have suggested that qualitative research is pivotal to our understanding of the socio‐behavioural aspects of HIV disease. 16 Such studies in different parts of the world have revealed poor patient understanding and beliefs towards ...