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In the Nov. 4 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Recommendations Updated for Meningococcal Vaccine in HIV

All HIV+ individuals should receive meningococcal conjugate vaccine (serogroups A, C, W, and Y)
For HIV-infected pregnant women

Maternal, Neonatal Adverse Events Up With Antenatal ART

But antiretroviral therapy also linked to significantly lower rates of early HIV transmission

October 2016 Briefing – HIV & AIDS

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in HIV & AIDS for October 2016. This roundup includes...
The intravenous drug ibalizumab might revolutionize the treatment of HIV patients who don't respond to existing drugs

IDSA: Experimental Rx May Be Option in Drug-Resistant HIV

'This is potentially a lifesaving therapy,' researcher says
For patients taking antiretroviral medications

HIV Active in Tissues Even in Patients on Antiretrovirals

Active, untreated virus in tissues could be driving diseases unrelated to AIDS
Using genetic analyses of 40-year-old blood samples

New Research Maps Origins of HIV/AIDS in North America

Genetic analysis of 40-year-old blood samples shows many North Americans already infected by late 1970s
Adaptive working memory training (WMT)

Adaptive Working Memory Training Beneficial in HIV

Improves working memory performance, cuts brain activation in HIV participants, seronegative controls
Chronic coinfection with hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus is associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among patients with HIV receiving antiretroviral treatment

HBV, HCV Coinfection Ups Non-Hodgkin Risk in ART-Treated HIV

Increased risk for NHL for HIV-infected patients receiving ART with chronic coinfection with HBV, HCV
From 2004 to 2011 there was no increase in the number of hospitalizations during pregnancy and delivery for HIV-infected women

Hospitalizations in Pregnancy, Delivery Stable for HIV-Infected

No increase in hospitalizations from 2004 to 2011
Many men who have sex with men are not aware that pre-exposure prophylaxis medication can protect them from HIV

Not Enough Men Who Have Sex With Men Aware of PrEP

Only 42 percent of Baltimore MSM knew about pre-exposure prophylaxis medication