An aspirin a day may keep HIV away, study finds
An affordable, globally available drug – low-dose Aspirin – shows promise as a new approach to preventing HIV transmission, a University of Manitoba study has found.
Aug 10, 2018
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An affordable, globally available drug – low-dose Aspirin – shows promise as a new approach to preventing HIV transmission, a University of Manitoba study has found.
Aug 10, 2018
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Eight times as many babies were born with syphilis in Colorado in 2022 as in 2017, and while the numbers are still small, the public health community is racing to get the disease under control.
May 8, 2023
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Public health officials are expanding efforts to get the HIV prevention pill into the hands of those at risk, in a nationwide effort to curb infections. But the officials are hitting roadblocks—the drug's price tag, which ...
Jul 4, 2018
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With trousers around his ankles, Justin Igalla awaits a tight rubber band for his foreskin, an innovative non-surgical technique rolling out in several African nations to encourage circumcision and cut HIV infection rates.
Jun 17, 2014
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If just a quarter of men who have same-sex intercourse and are at a high risk for HIV used daily preventive medicine, three out of every 10 HIV infections could be averted, according to a new Drexel University study.
Dec 13, 2017
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HIV infection rates in Africa have decreased markedly, but the continent is still behind set targets, with efforts slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Dec 7, 2021
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University researchers finds that scaling up use of methadone and buprenorphine—medications for treating opioid use disorder known as opioid agonist therapies (OATs)—could greatly reduce HIV transmission rates and prevent ...
Jan 3, 2020
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To improve HIV testing rates in the West African country of Côte d'Ivoire, community health workers need more training and support, researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and the Institute ...
Feb 8, 2023
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), together with collaborators in Europe, discovered that a common type of cell within the human reproductive and intestinal tracts ...
Feb 16, 2017
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Increasing patients' out of pocket costs for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), medications, which have been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection, could lead to a significant reduction in PrEP use and ...
Jan 8, 2024
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