While much of the health research around men who have sex with men (MSM) involves HIV, these communities are at increased risk for other health problems including certain types of cancer, substance use and mental health issues. ...
Aug 3, 2021
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With a global focus on strategies to curb expansion of a fast-moving coronavirus pandemic, the question again has arisen: What more is being done about HIV, a scourge that has lasted more than 40 years—is a cure finally ...
Over the last 15 years, many African nations have made major strides towards enabling millions of HIV-positive people to access HIV antiretroviral therapy. This has helped to treat individual patients and maximize their health, ...
Jul 26, 2021
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Preliminary results presented at the International AIDS Society (IAS) 2021 conference, show that a novel intervention and implementation strategies, including education programs and capacity building can reduce the number ...
Jul 22, 2021
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Since antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV was introduced in 1996, AIDS-related morbidity and mortality has declined significantly. People living with HIV are now expected to live nearly as long as people without HIV. Despite ...
Jul 21, 2021
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Nearly 40 million people worldwide live with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), and this number increases every year as more individuals acquire the incurable infection. There is no vaccine to prevent HIV infection and the ...
Jul 21, 2021
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A research group led by Prof. Li Guohui from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Chen Jianfeng's group from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Adolescent girls and young women can and will use HIV prevention products with consistency, according to interim results of a study of two different methods: daily use of the antiretroviral (ARV) tablet Truvada as oral pre-exposure ...
Jul 15, 2021
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A presentation at this year's European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, will discuss the growing evidence that the beta SARS-CoV-2 variant first identified in South ...
Jul 10, 2021
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Spanish doctors highlight the importance of targeting and testing older adults for HIV in a case report being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) held online this year. ...
Jul 8, 2021
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