The results of the ACTA trial were presented at the 9th IAS Conference on HIV Science held in Paris from 23 to 26 July 2017. Professor Thomas Harrison and his colleagues at St George's University of ...

Opportunistic infections of the CNS, such as cryptococcal meningitis, cerebral toxoplasmosis, and tuberculous meningitis, are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV-positive individuals ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed no differences in mortality or recurrence between the AMBITION treatment and a daily amphotericin-based regimen ...

A common first-line treatment approach for cryptococcal meningitis in low-income countries is being compromised by the emergence of drug resistance, new University of Liverpool research warns.

A common first-line treatment approach for cryptococcal meningitis in low-income countries is being compromised by the emergence of drug resistance, new research warns. The findings highlight the need ...

ABOUT 500 cases of human infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans have been described since Busse and Buschke separately presented descriptions of clinical findings in the same patient. In addition ...

Crytococcal meningitis is a deadly invasive fungal infection which affects hundreds of thousands of HIV patients in the late stage of their disease every year. Crytococcal meningitis is a deadly ...

Cryptococcal meningitis accounts for more than 100,000 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–related deaths per year. We tested two treatment strategies that could be more sustainable in Africa than the ...

"The results of this phase 3 [AMBITION-cm] trial make it clear that this approach is just as good as the current World Health Organization-recommended first-line treatment in preventing death," first ...

Meningitis is an infection affecting the membranes that line the skull and spinal cord. Cryptococcal meningitis is a type of meningitis caused by a fungus called Cryptococcus. This type of meningitis ...

Nelesh P. Govender currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. South Africa has launched the world’s largest national screening ...