HIV
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Shared decision-making aids choice of PrEP
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Social factors predicted peripartum depressive symptoms in Black women with HIV
Those factors included having low income and experiencing intimate partner violence.
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Heterosexual men likely to have unmet HIV treatment needs
In high-income countries, men with HIV who had sex with men were diagnosed earlier than men with HIV who had sex with women.
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Dual therapy serves as well as triple for most HIV patients
Patients with a low viral load were significantly more likely to experience treatment failure on dual therapy than on triple therapy.
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Being HIV positive increases risk of death from COVID-19
For patients below the age of 70, the risk of mortality was double in people with HIV.
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Promising Trends Seen in AIDS-Associated NHL
Patients are doing as well as HIV-negative counterparts in some cases, hematologist says at virtual AVAHO meeting.
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Injection beats pill for long-lasting HIV prevention
The findings “could transform the HIV prevention landscape for so many people,” said Megan Coleman, DNP.
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FDA OKs first-in-class HIV therapy for patients with few options
“The availability of new classes of antiretroviral drugs is critical for heavily treatment-experienced patients living with multidrug resistant...
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COVID-19 disruptions ‘life threatening’ for people with HIV
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HIV does not appear to worsen COVID-19 outcomes
“We don’t see any signs that people with HIV should take extra precautions” to protect themselves from COVID-19, said Keith Sigel, MD.