Sunday November 22, 2020

HIV subtype diversity worldwide

As of 2017, there were 36.9 million people living with HIV worldwide with a majority of these infections in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS is a global pandemic caused by two genetically diverse lentiviruses, HIV-1 and HIV-2, that were introduced through multiple cross-species transmissions of simian immunodeficiency viruses from nonhuman primates to humans. These distinct zoonotic viral […]

AIDS/HIV | Global |

Sunday November 22, 2020

HIV, Hepatitis-B Drugs Proven to Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Among patients diagnosed with HIV-1 or hepatitis B, the adjusted risk of incident type 2 diabetes was 33% lower among those who had been exposed to nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) drugs compared with those not exposed, suggesting that NRTIs have the potential to be repurposed for diabetes prevention in the future, according to a study […]

Hepatitis-B | HIV |