Latest - HIV/AIDS

• COVID-19 Took Toll on AIDS Fight, UNAIDS Chief Says New infections and deaths from HIV/AIDS may increase as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted prevention measures, said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima in an interview.
  Reuters Health Information, December 01, 2021
• New HIV and AIDS Strategy Calls Racism a Public Health Crisis In 2019, 36,801 Americans were diagnosed with HIV, even though effective treatment and prevention pills can eliminate HIV transmission.
  WebMD Health News, December 02, 2021
• 10 Changes to Keep Clinicians in the Workforce in a Pandemic Doctors make checklist of low-cost action items to start addressing a wave of providers leaving medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2021
• HIV: Syringe Services Fill a Gap in PrEP Access People who inject drugs meet the CDC's criteria for the HIV prevention pills, but most clinicians aren't prescribing it for them. Are syringe exchanges the answer?
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• Cohort Study of COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis Learn more about the incidence, risk factors and outcomes associated with pulmonary aspergillosis occurring in COVID-19 patients.
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 30, 2021
• High Rate of Long-Term Events After ART Resumption in HIV HIV patients who experienced ART interruption may be at a greater risk for long-term events after treatment resumption.
  AIDS, November 30, 2021
• Sociodemographic Correlates of Discrimination in HIV Care A better understanding of the sociodemographic factors associated with HIV-related discrimination in health care settings could help guide future interventions to address this issue.
  JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, November 30, 2021
• Cardiac Adiposity as a Modulator of CV Disease in HIV What role might cardiac adiposity have in the risk for cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV?
  HIV Medicine, November 29, 2021
• 25 Great Winter Vacations for Doctors: 2021 We've selected terrific locations where you can have fun, restore your spirits, and make the most of your winter vacation.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 24, 2021
• 20 Best Holiday Gift Ideas for Doctors For many people, gift-giving can be a time-consuming ordeal. Here are 20 gifts sure to please your favorite physician.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 24, 2021
• Geospatial Maps Show Areas of Africa That Need HIV Services Could geospatial mapping be the key to ending the global AIDS epidemic?
  Medscape Medical News, November 24, 2021
• Did Prior Authorization Refusals Lead to This Patient's Death? Physicians are being forced to delay or deny patient treatments while fighting for authorization from insurers. This delay could endanger patients.
  Medscape Medical News, November 24, 2021
• 5 Things: What the Pandemic Has Made Me Most Thankful For As the year draws to a close, family medicine physician Sophia Tolliver reflects on what she's most grateful for.
  Medscape, November 22, 2021
• The Parallels Between the HIV and COVID-19 Pandemics   David A. Wohl, MD, considers how the development of prevention and treatment strategies for COVID-19 is the history of the evolution of HIV prevention and treatment strategies compressed into a few months.
  Medscape, November 22, 2021
• A HIV PrEP Service Tailored to People Who Inject Drugs Could this approach to PrEP care help improve uptake among this vulnerable population?
  HIV Medicine, November 22, 2021
• Medscape Malpractice Report 2021 Read about physicians' malpractice experiences and the latest lawsuit trends discovered in our 2021 survey.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 19, 2021
• Just Half of US Adolescents Getting Sufficient Sex Education Across the US, only half of teens have received sex education that meets the minimum standard set in current national goals, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2021
• Leading Nurses Groups Unite to Combat COVID Misinformation Leading national nursing organizations issue policy brief advising how to deal with misinformation being spread about the virus from within their own ranks.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2021
• ANAC 2021 Cultural Stigmas Are Barriers to Sexual Health in Gay, Bi Latinos Religion, machismo, and a culture of silence around sexuality are barriers to healthy sexual behaviors, a small study found, but trust in oneself, partners, or community influenced sexual well-being.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2021
• ANAC 2021 HIV Services Are Bouncing Back From COVID-19, With Caveats New data suggest that practitioners quickly adapted to challenges posed by the pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2021