Latest - HIV/AIDS

• COVID-19: Where Doctors in Emotional Distress Can Get Help Many physicians say the traumatic experiences of being on the front line leave them mentally exhausted, guilt-ridden, and depressed. Here's where to find resources to help your mental health at this time.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• Author, AIDS Policy Advocate Larry Kramer Dead at 84 Larry Kramer, an author, playwright and film producer who helped shape U.S. healthcare policy with his early advocacy of a national response to AIDS when it first emerged in the 1980s, died on Wednesday at 84.
  Reuters Health Information, May 27, 2020
• Sex Differences in Outcomes for Third-Line ART Do women presenting for third-line ART experience different outcomes than men? A new study examines the gender disparities that may exist.
  JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, May 29, 2020
• Why Don't We Have a Vaccine for SARS or MERS? We don't have vaccines for SARS, MERS, or HIV. Does that spell doom for efforts to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 28, 2020
• Let's Stop the Draconian Visiting Restrictions One physician's thoughts on how to loosen visitation restrictions responsibly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 27, 2020
• Hepatitis A Hospitalization Costs, United States, 2017 What do we currently know about the costs associated with hepatitis A-related hospitalizations?
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 27, 2020
• PrEP Use Among Male Sex Partners of HIV-Positive Men Do the male sexual partners of HIV-positive men routinely take PrEP to reduce the risk of becoming infected?
  AIDS, May 26, 2020
• Newly Reported Acute and Chronic HCV Cases: US, 2009-2018 This report highlights the epidemic of hepatitis C among US adults, and supports CDC's new screening recommendations to screen all adults for this curable disease.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, May 22, 2020
• Renal Injury and HIV: What Remains After 30 Years? What have we learned about the incidence of renal disease in the HIV population?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, May 22, 2020
• Happy 25th Birthday, Medscape, From Our Founder Medscape launched on May 22, 1995. It was the first site with a radical concept: anyone who registered would have free access to trusted information previously available only through subscriptions.
  Medscape, May 21, 2020
• POC Test for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea as Good as Lab-based Assays A new 30-minute point-of-care test using self-collected vaginal swabs works as well as lab-based molecular diagnostic tests for detecting chlamydia and gonorrhea, new findings show.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2020
• Has the Pandemic 'Infected' Our Approach to Medicine? Changing long-standing protocols. Using unproven drugs. Targeting colleagues. Blame the COVID-19 'superinfection' for these changes in physicians' thinking, argues Vinay Prasad.
  Medscape Oncology, May 20, 2020
• GSK's Long-Acting Injection Beats Truvada in HIV Prevention Trial GSK said an injection every other month of its cabotegravir drug was shown to avert an HIV infection more effectively than Gilead's daily Truvada pill.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2020
• A Quick Summary of the COVID-19 Literature Who can keep up with the explosion of papers on SARS-CoV-2? Two Boston-based HIV Fellows have done four biweekly deep dives into the COVID-19 literature. Read their highlights to date.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, May 18, 2020
• The Fellows Behind the COVID-19 Literature Updates Two HIV research fellows are about to do their fifth biweekly deep-dive presentation on the COVID-19 literature. We asked them how they choose what to include and what they find most intriguing about SARS-CoV2.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2020
• Medicare for All vs Single Payer: Do You Know the Difference? Many people consider Medicare for All and single payer synonymous; others say they have important differences.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2020
• Alert FDA Approves Pomalidomide for Kaposi Sarcoma Pomalidomide is the first new treatment option for Kaposi sarcoma in more than 20 years; the drug is already marketed for multiple myeloma.
  FDA Approvals, May 15, 2020
• ART and SVR Among Active Duty Service Members With HIV This report demonstrates that service members with HIV infection who remain in care and receive timely anteretroviral therapy can achieve both early and sustained viral suppression.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, May 15, 2020
• 'This Virus May Never Go Away,' WHO Says The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a "massive effort" to counter it.
  Reuters Health Information, May 13, 2020
• With Castro-Era Biotech, Cuba Seeks to Compete in Coronavirus Treatment Race Laboring under a six-decade US embargo, Cuba is betting a biotech sector begun by the late leader Fidel Castro can give them an edge in a global race to find effective treatments for the coronavirus.
  Reuters Health Information, May 13, 2020