A pilot study in north London in which a network of GP practices proactively contacted their patients to suggest statins found higher takeup levels. This was one of several studies at BHIVA to find ...

And although the evidence is clearer for viral STIs like HPV and mpox, the bacterial STIs that doxycycline can prevent may take a more aggressive course in people with HIV, especially if they have low ...

Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment, according to a pair of posters presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI ...

📢 With heavy hearts, we announce the proposed closure of our beloved charity, NAM aidsmap, this month. After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through ...

It’s rare in any branch of medicine that a trial of a new drug can report 100% efficacy, and a first in HIV science. But that’s what happened on Friday, when Gilead Sciences announced that no HIV ...

A CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy called EBT-101 was safe and well tolerated but did not prevent viral rebound in three participants who stopped antiretroviral treatment in an early study, according ...

But even in the US, where CAB-LA is marketed as Apretude, it has been hard for injectable PrEP to establish a significant market . There have now been about 11,000 prescriptions in the two years since ...

A programme in rural Kenya and Uganda that has already demonstrated that a dynamic, person-centred HIV prevention intervention results in substantial increases in the numbers of people covered by PrEP ...

The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SF DPH) was ahead of the game, issuing doxyPEP recommendations a year earlier and getting a head start on compiling real-world data. San Francisco’s ...

A positive diagnosis continues to be a source of isolation and stigma for people living with HIV, especially among trans people, younger people and women. Findings from the UK’s largest survey of ...

BHIVA recommends that people aged 40 and over should be offered a statin irrespective of lipid levels or estimated cardiovascular risk. People with HIV aged 40 and over with an estimated 10-year risk ...

Media reports compared the outbreak to the early days of HIV, when gay men’s sexual behaviour was also linked to a stigmatised disease. However, there has been very little qualitative research ...