Scientific strides in HIV treatment and prevention have reduced transmissions and HIV-related deaths significantly in the United States in the past two decades. However, despite coordinated national efforts to implement HIV ...
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Despite significant progress in prevention and therapy, millions of people still get infected with HIV every year. The main burden of HIV/AIDS falls on Africa. To contain the epidemic, innovative methods are needed to enable ...
Oct 12, 2020
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As the HIV epidemic enters its fourth decade, men who have sex with men (MSM) make up a disproportionate number of new HIV diagnoses in the United States. A report from the CDC revealed that MSM represented nearly 70 percent ...
Sep 16, 2020
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With an increase in HIV and HCV infections as a consequence of the ongoing opioid epidemic, Boston Medical Center researchers found that only a small number of those who test positive for those infections at a drug detoxification ...
Sep 3, 2020
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A new study has found that HIV screening every three months compared to annually will improve clinical outcomes and be cost-effective among high-risk young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in the United States. The report, ...
Aug 6, 2020
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While the COVID-19 pandemic is often described as unprecedented, there is a recent viral epidemic that researchers in UConn's Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention and Policy (InCHIP) say can offer lessons about ...
May 18, 2020
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The discovery of a rare new strain of HIV for the first time in nearly 20 years recently made headlines around the world.
Feb 6, 2020
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A new peer-reviewed commentary published in the January issue of the American Journal of Public Health argues for new metrics to evaluate the public health response to HIV in the United States. The U.S. Department of Health ...
Dec 17, 2019
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Efforts to prevent new HIV transmissions in the United States must be accompanied by advances in addressing HIV-associated comorbidities to improve the health of people already living with HIV, National Institutes of Health ...
Dec 11, 2019
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White Americans who are at risk of HIV are seven times more likely than blacks to receive a daily oral pill shown to be extremely effective at preventing infection, according to official statistics published Tuesday.
Dec 3, 2019
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