Medscape

A Negative Trial for HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis

This double-blind trial enrolled adults with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Uganda, and Malawi. All patients received combination antifungal therapy of ...
Business Insider

Matinas BioPharma Initiates EnACT Study of MAT2203 (Oral Amphotericin B) for the Treatment of Fungal Cryptococcal Meningitis

BEDMINSTER, N.J., Oct. 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matinas BioPharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSE AMER: MTNB), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has initiated its Phase 2 ...
News Medical

ACTA trial in AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis validates new therapeutic regimens

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 ...
The Conversation

A new meningitis screening test could help cut South Africa’s HIV/AIDS deathtoll

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 ...
EurekAlert!

New treatment for cryptococcal meningitis enters Phase II trial as global HIV funding cuts threaten to cause a massive increase in advanced HIV disease

Dar es Salaam / Lilongwe / Geneva — 15 April 2025 — A new, easier-to-administer and patient-friendly sustained-release formulation of flucytosine, a medicine used to treat cryptococcal meningitis, has ...
Science Daily

Cryptococcal meningitis should be classified as a 'neglected tropical disease,' researchers say

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 ...
Medscape

Managing HIV-Related Cryptococcal Meningitis?

As a result of a large randomized, controlled trial (and experience during the first 15 years of the AIDS epidemic), standard guidelines for treatment of cryptococcal meningitis recommend 2 weeks of ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Occurrence of Cryptococcus Neoformans in the Environment of Three Geographically Associated Cases of Cryptococcal Meningitis

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 ...
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Common treatment for cryptococcal meningitis compromised by emergence of drug resistance

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.
The Conversation

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

Gilles van Cutsem is affiliated with Doctors Without Borders, a member of the Cryptococcal Meningitis Advocacy Group, and Chair of the Patient Advisory Committee of the slow release flucytosine ...
Healio

Study finds easier, less toxic regimen for HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A large study conducted in five African countries identified an easier and less toxic treatment for ...