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)