Adolescent girls and young women can consistently use the dapivirine vaginal ring and daily pills for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) when they receive adherence support, according to a study ...

Eighty per cent of a group of people with HIV whose current antiretroviral therapy was not working, and who had resistance to most or all currently used drugs, achieved an undetectable viral load ...

This has important limitations, most notably that while drug resistance mutations to the PrEP drugs emtricitabine and tenofovir were detected in people who seroconverted after starting PrEP, the ...

Children with HIV had lower fat mass than HIV-unexposed children without HIV (-9%, 95% CI -18% to -0.01%). When the evolution of mean metabolic values over time was projected, based on observed ...

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A man in southern California, dubbed the 'City of Hope patient', appears to be the latest person cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare mutation, bringing the ...

The British HIV Association (BHIVA) has recommended that everyone living with HIV aged 40 and over should take a statin to reduce their risk of heart disease, even if they do not have raised ...

Over half of funding for anti-gender actors in Europe appears to come from within Europe itself, with significant amounts of money also flowing from the US and the Russian Federation, according to ...

In 2019, South Africa adopted dolutegravir / lamivudine / tenofovir (TLD) as its preferred first-line regimen, replacing a regimen known as TEE or tenofovir / emtricitabine / efavirenz for most adults ...

Many PrEP users, given the choice, prefer event-driven PrEP. In PREVENIR, a French study that followed on from IPERGAY, at any one time in the 30-month study the split between daily and 2-1-1 users ...

Since the first reported HIV-related prosecution in 1986, HIV criminalisation has occurred in at least 81 countries, according to a global report published today by the HIV Justice Network. HIV ...

A detailed analysis of results from the HPTN 083 PrEP study, which compared the efficacy of a two-monthly injection of the drug cabotegravir against daily oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and ...