Teresa Bini

TL;DR: Evaluating the rate of within-couple HIV transmission among serodifferent heterosexual and MSM couples during periods of sex without condoms and when the HIV-positive partner had HIV-1 RNA load less than 200 copies/mL found no phylogenetically linked transmissions.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the risk of HIV transmission in gay couples through condomless sex when HIV viral load is suppressed is effectively zero, which supports the message of the U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable) campaign, and the benefits of early testing and treatment for HIV.

TL;DR: By substituting a one-pill once-a-day HAART for HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), an improvement of both adherence and QoL is observed while maintaining high virologic and immunologic efficacy.

TL;DR: HAART was effective in 70% of patients; low compliance and previous AIDS diagnosis represented predictive factors of therapy failure; the best virological outcome occurred in IDV-treated patients, with 68.4% of Patients showing undetectable HIV RNA copies after 6 months.

TL;DR: Traditional risk factors are predictive of osteopenia/osteoporosis also in HIV-subjects; the association with higher HIV-RNA levels can suggest a direct role of HIV itself in the occurrence of bone disease.