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London, Ont. researchers confirm new method of HIV transmission and provide prevention technique

[From Global News, April 25, 2019] “New studies from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University are showing for the first time that HIV can be transmitted through sharing equipment used to prepare drugs, even without sharing needles or syringes.” For more, click here.

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What can Western medicine learn from Indigenous healing traditions?

[From CATIE, April 26, 2019] “Since the earliest days of the epidemic I have known and worked with people living with HIV/AIDS. I was a family physician in San Francisco before the virus was even identified as HIV and well into the contemporary times of effective antiretroviral drugs. In the early ’80s, many of us

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Monoclonal antibody demonstrates ‘unprecedented’ virologic suppression in HIV study

[From Healio, April 17, 2019] “The monoclonal antibody UB-421 “demonstrated unprecedented and sustained” virologic suppression in the absence of ART among people with HIV during a nonrandomized, open-label, phase 2 clinical study, according to findings published today by The New England Journal of Medicine.” For more, click here.

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HIV Transmission Rates Decreased With Prompt Diagnosis and Treatment

[From Infectious Disease Advisor, April 17, 2019] “Although viral suppression has become increasingly prevalent in people with HIV in recent years, and the rates of new infections and transmissions have been decreasing, there are ways to accelerate this progress, according to results of a study published in the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality

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