[From EurekAlert!, April 8, 2016] COLUMBIA, Mo. – Agencies that serve people with HIV in the U.S. are at the forefront of delivering medical care, shelter, psycho-social counseling and other services to their vulnerable clients. These services are offered through a mix of different types of agencies, including local health departments, state government agencies, non-profits […]
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[From KAISER HEALTH NEWS, March 29, 2016] With the highest incarceration rate of any state in the nation, Louisiana locks up so many people that 40 percent of those sentenced to serve time in state prisons are instead sent to a local parish jail. This has long created a two-tiered system: People in prisons have access
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[From Vice, February 29, 2016]The Canadian government quietly gave the green light for doctors to prescribe a drug that can prevent the transmission of HIV last week. The next step will be making the revolutionary drug affordable. For more, click here.
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[From Medicalxpress, Feb 22, 2016] The antiretroviral (ARV) drug atazanavir—sometimes included in treatments to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission during pregnancy—may have small but significant effects on infant development, reports a study in the journal AIDS. For more, click here.
[From Metro News, Feb 17, 2016] Everyday cholesterol-lowering drugs may be able to slow the accelerated aging of people with HIV, according to new research from the University of Alberta. Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, an HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. But people with HIV do have much higher levels of inflammation in
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