HIV / AIDS

How regional-based data and advancing preventive options could bolster individual HIV-risk care access.

A study looking at PrEP population obstacles shows men who have sex with men are more likely to not seek out information nor access to prophylaxis.

Dr. Marc Pitasi, epidemiologist, discusses facilitators of routine HIV screening among primary care physicians.

A discussion around new data presented at AIDS 2020 which shows statewide strategies are breaking down barriers.

Investigators in Tanzania trialed modest, automated financial incentives for clinic attendance on viral suppression for patients initiating ART.

How much does the current virus crisis share in common with early HIV outbreak scare?

Investigators compared characteristics and retention between daily and event-driven PrEP patients to better understand low uptake of event-driven PrEP.

Experts assessed the impact of drug overdoses on people living with HIV in British Columbia, identifying factors associated with mortality using competing risk methodology.

People with HIV are living longer than ever at present time, raising quality of life concerns about later stage medical and psychological challenges comorbidities.

The California PrEP Assistance Program, established to remove financial and structural barriers to PrEP access, had positive but uneven initial results.

With fostemsavir now available for patients with few options, an expert discusses what challenges MDR-HIV patients face in their care.

A 34-year-old Brazilian man's HIV was undetectable 57 weeks after ending a heightened regimen of ART.

A look at the BRIGHTE study data which evidenced the recently FDA-approved add-on agent.

In low-level HIV-1 viraemia patients, this strategy demonstrated viral suppression in more than half of a study's participants.

Despite being recommended at least once among all persons aged 13-64 years old by the CDC, notably few respondents have ever been tested for HIV.

Guidelines recommend concentrated adherence counseling and frequent viral load testing for virologic failure, but drug resistance testing is often excluded.

Interim analysis shows a long-acting injectable was associated with fewer HIV infections than daily oral PrEP in a diverse population of HIV-risk participants.

A retrospective analysis of the DRIVE-FORWARD and DRIVE-AHEAD trials shows treatment-naive patients particularly fared well from the novel agent.

A report released for AIDS 2020 warns the international AIDS response could be set back substantially by ongoing events.

CUSTOMIZE was designed to identify methods of implementing an experimental once-monthly, long-acting regimen antiretroviral therapy against HIV-1 into clinical practice.

The indication is granted on the strength of clinical evidence showing 60% of treated patients achieved HIV RNA suppression at 96 weeks.

Judith Feinberg, MD, FIDSA, describes surprising outcomes in many COVID-19 cases among people living with HIV.

Evolving research has led the infectious diseases community to redefine its definition of cure.

Conversations about PrEP with a clinician are the least common among adolescents with the greatest risk for HIV.

Sky-high HIV drugs costs are a significant barrier to adherence and our goal of eradicating the virus.