An early sign of many infections is a fever or an increase in your core temperature that your body uses to help fight pathogens. Researchers have found the no-contact forehead thermometers commonly used to screen for fever in public places are an ineffective and unreliable means of detecting COVID-19.1 Thermoregulation is an important part of… Read More: Temperature Scans Are Unreliable in Detecting COVID »
A full package of effective prevention interventions, up to international standards, must be offered to people taking part in HIV prevention trials, say UNAIDS and WHO in new guidance issued this week. This means that if researchers want to run a study in a country in which PrEP is not routinely available, they must find… Read More: New ethical obligations for researchers in places where existing HIV… »
Having HIV almost doubles the risk of liver fibrosis, according to European research published in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Investigators in Denmark and the Netherlands compared rates of liver fibrosis between people living with HIV and people without HIV. Importantly, none of the participants had hepatitis B virus (HBV) or… Read More: Middle-aged people with HIV and no hepatitis co-infection have a… »
Australia’s top diplomat to the UK took a holiday to Queensland while many expat Aussies were begging his office for help to get home. High Commissioner to the UK George Brandis was backed up by the Prime Minister after 7 News revealed Mr Brandis had left the UK at the peak of that country’s COVID-19… Read More: Brandis on holiday while Aussies stranded »