[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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[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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[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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[From Taipei Times, April 17, 2019] “The testing process for HIV infection in Taiwan has been streamlined as 12 hospitals nationwide on Monday began to offer anonymous diagnoses within an hour, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said.” For more, click here.
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[From LGBTQ Nation, April 12, 2019] “A pilot program that began on March 6 has Cuban officials distributing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to those in need. According to a report in Granma, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, 28 people in Cárdenas, some 90 miles from Havana, have been supplied with
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