The clinical research featured below encompasses the most recent developments in reproductive health. To learn more on how to best read and interpret the findings from clinical research, see In Brief: Interpreting Research Studies from the Guttmacher Institute.
Anema A, Wood E, Montaner J. The use of highly active retroviral therapy to reduce HIV incidence at the population level. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2008 July 1;179(1):13-14.
Autran B et al. Greater viral rebound and reduced time to resume antiretroviral therapy after therapeutic vaccination with ALVAC-HIV vaccine (vCP1452). AIDS 22(11):1313-1322. 2008.
Bhaskaran K, Hamouda O, Sannes M, Boufassa F, Johnson AM, Lambert PC, Porter K, CASCAD Collaboration. Changes in the Risk of Death After HIV Seroconversion Compared With Mortality in the General Population. JAMA. 2008;300(1):51-59.
Bouhnik AD et al. Sexual difficulties in people living with HIV in France—results from a large representative sample of outpatients attending French hospitals (ANRS-EN12-VESPA). AIDS and Behavior 12: 670-676, 2008.
Celum C et al. Effect of acyclovir on HIV-1 acquisition in herpes simplex virus 2 seropositive women and men who have sex with men: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2008 June; 371(9630):2109-2119.
Cook JA et al. Crack cocaine, disease progression, and mortality in a multicenter cohort of HIV-1 positive women. AIDS 22:1355-1363. 2008.
Darbes L, Crepaz N, Lyles C, Kennedy G, Rutherford G. The efficacy of behavioral interventions in reducing HIV risk behaviors and incident sexually transmitted disease in heterosexual African Americans. AIDS. 2008 Jun 19.
Foster SB, et al. Increased incidence of asthma in HIV-infected children treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy in the National Institutes of Health Women and Infants Transmission Study. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. (in press).
He W, Neil S, Kulkarni H, Wright E, Agan BK, Marconi VC, Dolan MJ, Weiss RA, Ahuja SK. Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines mediates trans-infection of HIV-1 from red blood cells to target cells and affects HIV-AIDS susceptibility. Cell Host and Microbe. 2008 17 July; 4: 52-62.
Horvath KJ, Rosser BR, Remafedi G. Sexual risk taking among young internet-using men who have sex with men. Am J Public Health. 2008 Apr 29.
Kumwenda NI et al. Extended antiretroviral prophylaxis to reduce breast-milk HIV-1 transmission. N Engl J Med. 2008 Jul 10;359(2):119-29. Epub 2008 Jun 4.
Lima VD, Johnston K, Hogg RS, Levy AR, Harrigan PR, Anema A, Montaner JSG. Expanded access to highly active antiretroviral therapy: A potentially powerful strategy to curb the growth of the HIV epidemic. J Infect Dis. 2008 Jul 1;198(1):59-67.
Masaro CL, Dahinten VS, Johnson J, Ogilvie G, Patrick DM. Perceptions of sexual partner safety. Sex Transm Dis. 2008 Jun;35(6):566-71.
Moir S, Ho J, Malaspina A, Wang W, DiPoto AC, O’Shea MA, Roby G, Kottilil S, Arthos J, Proschan MA, Chun TW, Fauci AS. Evidence for HIV-associated B cell exhaustion in a dysfunctional memory B cell compartment in HIV-infected viremic individuals. J Exp Med. 2008 14 July; jem.20072683-9.
Rectal Microbicides: Investments and Advocacy from the International Rectal Microbicide Working Group
Townsend CL, Cortina-Borja MA, Peckham CS, et al. Low rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV following effective pregnancy interventions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2000-2006. AIDS; 2008 May 11; 22(8):973-81.
van de Wijgert JH, Morrisoon CS, Cornelisse PG, et al. Bacterial vaginosis and vaginal yeast, but not vaginal cleansing, increase HIV-1 acquisition in African women. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 Jun 1; 48(2):203-10.
Wilson DP, Coplan PM, Wainberg MA, Blower SM. The paradoxical effects of using antiretroviral-based microbicides to control HIV epidemics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2008 Jul 7. [Epub ahead of print]
Wong FL, Rotheram-Borus, MJ, Lightfoot M, Pequegnat W, Comulada WS, Cumberland W, Weinhardt LS, Remien RH, Chesney M, Johnson M, Healthy Living Trial Group. Effects of behavioral intervention on substance use among people living with HIV: the Healthy Living Project randomized controlled study. Addiction 2008;103(7):1206-1214.
Zetola NM, Grijalva CG, Gertler S, Hare CB, Kaplan B, Dowling T, Colfax G, Katz MH, Klausner JD. Simplifying consent for HIV testing is associated with an increase in HIV testing and case detection in highest risk groups, San Francisco January 2003-June 2007. PLos ONE. 2008;3(7):e2591.
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