General Information
- Acute HIV Infection (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
- Primary infection (AIDSmap)
Treatment During Primary Infection
- Young women treated in very early HIV infection stay HIV negative and preserve immune function. (July 2016, AIDSmap); related coverage from Poz and MedPage Today
- Feasible to prescribe ART to emergency department patients with suspected acute HIV infection. (July 2016, AIDSmap)
- Looking for Symptoms Is a Poor Way to Detect Early HIV Infection. (June 2016, Poz)
- Acute HIV Often Has Symptoms, But Testing Is Best Diagnostic. (August 2014, Poz)
- Effects of long-term ART initiated during primary HIV infection on reservoir size. (August 2014, HIV i-Base)
- CDC Revises HIV Testing Guidelines to Better ID Early Cases. (June 2014, Poz)
- Expanded HIV testing may find more acute infections as well as more late presenters. (April 2014, AIDSmap)
- Short course of ART during primary HIV infection has immunological and virological benefits after treatment is stopped. (December 2013, AIDSmap)
- Worse Seroconversion Illness Linked to Faster AIDS Diagnosis. (December 2013, Poz)
- Severity of HIV seroconversion illness associated with subsequent disease progression. (December 2013, AIDSmap)
- New Rapid Test for Acute HIV Is Now Available. (October 2013, Poz)
- Specialised testing and social marketing campaigns increase the detection of acute HIV infection among gay men. (October 2013, AIDSmap)
- Acute HIV Symptoms Predict Disease Progression. (July 2013, Poz)
- Strategies to detect and treat MSM with acute infection may be a powerful tool to control HIV epidemics. (July 2013, AIDSmap)
- German researchers report case of ‘functional cure’ after very early HIV treatment. (July 2013, AIDSmap)
- Five-Drug Cocktail Fights HIV Reservoir During Acute Infection. (July 2013, Poz)
- 14 French People With HIV Have Achieved Functional Cure. (March 2013, Poz)
- French researchers report 14 patients in ‘remission’ after controlling HIV for over 4 years off treatment. (March 2013, AIDSmap)
- Very Early HIV Treatment May Limit “Seeding” of Latent HIV Reservoirs, Study Finds. (March 2013, TheBodyPro)
- HIV Treatment During Primary Infection Raises CD4s and Further Questions. (January 2013, Poz)
Other Recent Articles
- Acute HIV ‘Difficult’ to Detect in Clinic. (May 2016, MedPage Today)
- Successful diagnosis of acute/early HIV infections may have contributed to fall in HIV incidence in San Diego. (May 2016, AIDSmap)
- More targeted interventions to diagnose HIV during acute infection are needed, researchers warn. (April 2016, AIDSmap)
- A FRESH Look at Basic HIV Cure Research. (March 2016, AVAC)
- HIV Often Transmits During Early Phase and Treatment Interruptions. (October 2015, Poz)
- HIV Treatment as Prevention: Can Acute Infections Shake Our Faith? (October 2015, TheBodyPro)
- Recent infection and ART treatment interruptions are key periods for HIV transmission. (October 2015, AIDSmap)
- Wide Variety of Symptoms Accompany Early HIV Infection. (June 2015, Poz)
- Acute HIV infection may present in many ways – sometimes as a serious illness. (May 2015, AIDSmap)
- Relative infectivity of HIV-1 acute phase may be overestimated. (April 2015, Healio)
- Testing algorithm detected acute HIV infections missed by antibody testing alone. (February 2015, Healio)
- HCV core-antigen testing is a reliable way of detecting acute HCV infections in HIV-positive gay men. (October 2014, AIDSmap)
- Newer HIV Tests Better Identify Acute Infections. (January 2014, Poz)
- Giving Short-Term ARVs During Early HIV Infection Has Benefits. (January 2014, Poz)
- FDA OKs First Rapid Test That Can Detect Acute HIV. (August 2013, Poz)
- Acute HIV Symptoms Predict Disease Progression. (July 2013, Poz)
- Why HIV That Transmits Is More Infectious and Resilient. (April 2013, Poz)
- Seattle Campaign to Alert Gay Men to Acute HIV Symptoms Largely Falls Flat. (February 2013, Poz)
- Media campaign on acute HIV infection symptoms has limited impact. (February 2013, AIDSmap)
- Rapid ‘combination’ test fails to detect many cases of acute HIV infection. (January 2012, AIDSmap)