Health Care Professionals News

[From aidsmap, August 22, 2018] “A large French study of people taking HIV treatment that contained an integrase inhibitor found that approximately one person in forty who started treatment with dolutegravir stopped taking the drug due to neuropsychiatric side-effects, a significantly higher rate than observed in people taking either elvitegravir or raltegravir, a poster presentation […]

[From Newsy, August 24, 2018] “Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a daily pill that can reduce someone’s risk of getting HIV anywhere between 70 and 90 percent. The World Health Organization and the CDC both support the drug for HIV prevention, but a lot of it is still sitting unprescribed on pharmacy shelves across the country. ” For more,

[From USA TODAY, July 24, 2018] “Just like his mother Princess Diana before him, Prince Harry is lending his voice to AIDS awareness. Harry joined Sir Elton John on the second day of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam Tuesday morning, where the two will launch the new MenStar Coalition, a global partnership aimed at researching and halting

[From UNAIDS, July 25, 2018] “AMSTERDAM/GENEVA, 25 July 2018—A group of 20 leading HIV scientists from around the world have issued a scientific consensus statement urging governments and people working in the legal and justice systems to pay close attention to the significant advances in HIV science to ensure that science informs the application of criminal

[From Medical Express, August 15, 2018] “(HealthDay)—Recommendations have been developed for addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African-American community; the recommendations are presented in an article published in the June issue of the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.” For more, click here.