HIV/AIDS Topics Awareness of Treatment Impact on HIV Transmission is Transforming Lives of Mixed-status Couples
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Friday, 25 September 2015 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
A greater understanding of the impact of HIV treatment on prevention is changing the experience of being in a relationship with a partner of a different HIV status, according to a qualitative Australian study published recently in Sociology of Health and Illness. A biomedical intervention appears to be having unexpected effects -- loosening the association of serodiscordant relationships with "risk" and helping couples to experience their relationships as normal and safe.
ICAAC 2015: Combination Vaginal Ring May Be Able to Prevent Both HIV and Herpes
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- Category: Microbicides
- Published on Friday, 25 September 2015 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
An experimental silicone vaginal ring with separate compartments may be able to deliver both tenofovir for prevention of HIV infection and acyclovir for prevention of genital herpes and potentially other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to a report at the 55th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) last weekin San Diego.
U.S. PrEP Care Cascade Suggests Structural Barriers Must Be Addressed
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
The uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among people who need it risks being limited due to low levels of awareness, gaps in health insurance, opaque bureaucratic procedures, under-usage of medical services, and limited awareness and skills among healthcare providers, according to an analysis published online ahead of print in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Also taking into account suboptimal adherence among some PrEP users, the researchers concluded that just 15% of gay men in Atlanta who could benefit are likely to achieve protection from HIV with PrEP.
PROUD PrEP Study Results Published in The Lancet
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
The results of the PROUD study of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) using daily tenofovir plus emtricitabine (Truvada) have now been published online in The Lancet scientific journal. PROUD, along with the other European randomized study of PrEP, Ipergay, demonstrated considerably higher levels of PrEP effectiveness in preventing HIV infections than any previous study. PrEP should now be offered routinely as part of sexual health services, says an accompanying editorial.
Half of U.S. Gay Men Using Dating Apps Have Interacted with a PrEP User
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Wednesday, 09 September 2015 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
Almost half of American gay men recruited to participate in a survey via advertising on a major mobile phone dating app say that at least one potential sexual partner has said that he was taking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and even more have interacted with someone who said that he was HIV-positive but had an undetectable viral load. Many of these potential partners were looking for sex without a condom, according to the survey results, published in the August 21 online edition ofJournal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
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