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HIV Rates For Black Women In Parts Of The US Much Higher Than Previously Estimated

Study results released indicate that the HIV incidence rate for US women living in areas hardest hit by the epidemic is much higher than the overall estimated incidence rate in the US for black adolescent and adult women. The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced results from its HPTN 064 Women's HIV Seroincidence Study (ISIS) which found an HIV incidence of 0.24% in the study cohort of 2,099 women (88% black), a rate that is five fold higher than that estimated for black women overall by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)... read more..

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Study Uses Advanced Gene-Sequencing Technologies To Track Viral Evolution Of HIV

Mutations in HIV that develop during the first few weeks of infection may play a critical role in undermining a successful early Immune Response, a finding that reveals the importance of vaccines targeting regions of the virus that are less likely to mutate... read more..

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