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[From Xinhua News, May 30, 2018] Health Experts on Tuesday said that efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS infections in Africa must focus more on young people because they are at high risk due to peer pressure, drug abuse and alcoholism. They made the call at the 12th International Workshop on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis, and Prevention Research […]

[From CATIE, May 29, 2018] In May 2018, Health Canada approved the use and sale of a fixed-dose combination of two medicines—dolutegravir + rilpivirine—sold under the brand name Juluca as maintenance therapy for HIV. For more, click here.

[From The Body Pro, April 13, 2018] After years of programs focusing on prevention for positives, we’ve learned that treatment is in fact the best prevention option for people who are HIV positive. In fact, treatment works so well that people who successfully achieve viral suppression are not at risk of passing the virus on

[From EurekAlert!, April 5, 2018] A new study has identified factors that lead to increased HIV testing among young adults, specifically how a person’s race, sex/gender, and sexual orientation is connected to their likelihood of getting tested for HIV. For more, click here.

[From Boston Globe, April 5, 2018] The US government will dispatch disease trackers to Massachusetts to investigate a puzzling cluster of new HIV infections in Lawrence and Lowell among people who inject drugs, a spike that could portend a resurgence of the deadly virus. For more, click here.