• Are automated campaigns driven by AI the future of HIV prevention?
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    HIV prevention messages selected using machine learning from existing social media content were found to be appealing to gay and bisexual men and public health departments in the United States, according to a recent study in the journal...
  • Decline of Nonrecommended HIV Care in Medicare
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    A recent study shows a substantial decline in the use of nonrecommended antiviral prescriptions among Medicare beneficiaries with HIV. Medscape Medical News
  • Hidden bias may leave women and older adults underdiagnosed for HIV in Spain
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    A recent study analyzes the extent to which HIV tests are conducted following the diagnosis of an HIV indicator condition (IC) in primary care, as recommended by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease...
  • We have drugs to manage HIV. So why are we spending millions looking for cures?
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Over the past three decades, there have been amazing advances in treating and preventing HIV.
  • USAID funding cuts could cost millions of lives worldwide, study warns
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    A new study published in The Lancet has raised urgent concerns about the global health consequences of recent cuts to U.S. foreign aid.
  • Exclusive-USAID Cancelled Rape Survivor Kits for Congo as Conflict Erupted
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    (This story has been refiled to change the picture) Reuters Health Information
  • HIV Anxiety Is Real But Also An Opportunity To Educate
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from AIDS Information, Education, Action, Awareness
    Patient and healthcare provider discussing HIV anxiety in clinic HIV anxiety is real, driven by stigma and misinformation, but it offers a chance to educate, dispel myths, and foster understanding.
  • Supreme Court Ruling Preserves Access to Preventive Services
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Medscape HIV/AIDS Headlines
    In a 6-3 decision, the top US court preserved a federal mandate meant to guarantee access to preventive services that get top marks from an influential panel, including cancer screenings. Medscape Medical News
  • HIV and AIDs: Are We Doing Enough?
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from AIDS Information, Education, Action, Awareness
    Community HIV awareness workshop with diverse participants Explore if global efforts against HIV and AIDS are sufficient. Assess progress, challenges, and the need for equitable healthcare solutions.
  • Gene therapy may be key to permanently putting HIV into dormant state
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    In a study of human immune cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say a molecule within HIV itself can be manipulated and amplified to force the virus into long-term dormancy, a state in...
  • Understanding HIV Prevention For Patients
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from AIDS Information, Education, Action, Awareness
    Clinic consultation about HIV prevention for patients Discover essential HIV prevention strategies, including PrEP, PEP, safe sex, and regular testing, to reduce infection risk and manage virus spread.
  • US approves twice-yearly injection for HIV prevention. What you need to know about lenacapavir
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lenacapavir, an injectable drug that offers long-lasting protection against HIV infection. Administered once every six months, this new treatment marks a major advancement in...
  • ‘We need to keep fighting’: HIV activists organize to save lives as Trump guts funding
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Cedric Sturdevant woke up with "a bit of depression" but made it to church, as he does every Sunday. In a few days, he would drive from Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to join HIV advocates at an April rally against the Trump...
  • The Challenges of Being An Aids Caregiver
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from AIDS Information, Education, Action, Awareness
    AIDS caregiver supporting HIV patient with medication and care Explore the demanding role of Aids caregivers, tackling emotional, physical, and financial challenges while providing vital support and care.
  • Hope For HIV Patients
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from AIDS Information, Education, Action, Awareness
    HIV patient and doctor discussing hopeful treatment updates Discover new hope for HIV patients with groundbreaking treatments and research, paving the way for a future without life-threatening impacts.
  • Don’t Avoid These HIV Symptoms
    Saturday, June 21, 2025 from AIDS Information, Education, Action, Awareness
    Person appearing fatigued on a couch, possibly experiencing HIV symptoms. Discover the key HIV symptoms you shouldn't ignore for early detection and effective management. Stay informed and protect your health today.
  • HIV Basics: What Every Patient and Caregiver Needs to Know
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from AIDS Information, Education, Action, Awareness
    Doctor and patient talking about HIV basics and care plan. Discover essential HIV basics for patients and caregivers: learn about transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention strategies.
  • Long-lasting HIV prevention shot headed toward approval
    Saturday, June 7, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    FA new injection to prevent HIV is expected to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later this month.
  • Climate change is threatening the sexual health of young adolescents in Kenya
    Saturday, June 7, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    Climate change is worsening sexual and reproductive health risks for young adolescents in Kenya, according to a recent study published in BMJ Global Health. Children aged 10 to 14 are facing rising threats as food, water, and sanitation...
  • Women with HIV have no cardiovascular advantage over men, unlike in the general population
    Saturday, June 7, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    Women with HIV do not have a lower risk of serious heart disease than men, unlike in the rest of the population, an analysis of the REPRIEVE study of statin treatment for people with HIV has found. Moreover, smoking cessation and blood...
  • Promoting more respectful and inclusive care in reproductive health cinics
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Millions of young women around the world face stigma and bias when seeking reproductive health services, often limiting their access to contraception and quality care.
  • Philippines warns of health emergency as HIV cases soar
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Philippine medical authorities on Tuesday warned of a looming "public health emergency" as HIV infections have soared this year, with young males especially hard-hit.
  • How to stop the spread of HIV in the South
    Friday, May 30, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Human immunodeficiency virus was once considered a problem of big cities and urban areas, but the South has become the new epicenter of the HIV epidemic, a University of Mississippi virologist warns.
  • HIV's hidden persistence: How small changes affect replication speed and reactivation
    Thursday, May 29, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their research shows that small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly it replicates, and how easily or...
  • HIV vaccine study uncovers powerful new antibody target
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    In the long battle to create an effective HIV vaccine, scientists have made a major leap forward. A new study shows that a series of vaccines can coax the immune system to produce powerful antibodies capable of blocking a wide range of...
  • Downward trend in New Zealand HIV diagnoses
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    The trend in the number of people first diagnosed with HIV in New Zealand, particularly among men who have sex with men, continues to decline from a peak in 2016.
  • Few people with HIV in England starting statins despite new recommendations
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    Six poster presentations at last month’s British HIV Association (BHIVA) Conference in Brighton found that only a minority of people with HIV are being offered and starting to take the cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. This is despite a...
  • Panel recommends statins for adults with HIV at risk for cardiovascular disease
    Monday, May 26, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Panel for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents with HIV (ARV Guidelines Panel), in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the...
  • Study finds more young adults than ever take HIV-prevention medication, but gaps remain
    Monday, May 26, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Eight times more American young adults now take medication to protect them from HIV than a decade ago, a new study finds.
  • Extreme weather events linked to HIV vulnerabilities among sex workers and sexually diverse men in Kenya
    Thursday, May 22, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    New research published earlier this month in AIDS and Behavior highlights links between extreme weather events, such as drought and flooding, and increased HIV vulnerabilities among sex workers and sexually diverse men in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Cannabis use disorder is increasing rapidly, especially among older adults and people living with HIV
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    The new findings underscore the need for universal screening and treatment for the disorder, as well as concerted research to better understand the benefits and risks of cannabis among different populations.
  • How the Trump administration aims to slash health care spending
    Tuesday, May 20, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in the name of reducing waste and improving efficiency.
  • Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests. Nigeria shows the human costs
    Monday, May 19, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    A little over two decades ago, addressing Nigeria's HIV crisis topped U.S. President George W. Bush's priorities. Africa's most populous nation had 3.5 million HIV cases, and the disease threatened to destabilize the region and...
  • Tackling HIV with machine learning
    Friday, May 16, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Hiding behind numerous disguises, HIV has been evading researchers for years, leaving the search for a vaccine as elusive as the virus itself.
  • Two HIV vaccine trials show proof of concept for pathway to broadly neutralizing antibodies
    Thursday, May 15, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional approaches haven't worked—largely because HIV...
  • Early-stage HIV vaccine triggers targeted immune response in human trial
    Thursday, May 15, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Worldwide, an estimated 40 million people live with HIV. Two-thirds of this group are on the African continent. In 2023, more than 600,000 people died from HIV-related causes and 1.32 million were infected. There is no vaccine against...
  • HIV-1's hidden weapon: Circular RNAs help virus outsmart the immune system
    Tuesday, May 13, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    In an important discovery, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables the human immunodeficiency type 1 virus (HIV-1) to evade the...
  • US funding cuts have crippled our HIV work. What's being lost?
    Monday, May 12, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    The Trump administration's cuts to funding for scientific research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health in the US, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical...
  • HIV testing and outreach falter as Trump funding cuts sweep the South
    Monday, May 12, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Storm clouds hung low above a community center in Jackson, where pastor Andre Devine invited people inside for lunch. Hoagies with smoked turkey and ham drew the crowd, but several people lingered for free preventive health care: tests...
  • High rates of HIV drug resistance among young people in London will limit future treatment options
    Saturday, May 10, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    Young people who have been living with HIV since birth have a significant unmet need for innovative long-acting treatments that can overcome drug resistance and adherence challenges, a London study has concluded. These individuals should...
  • Guidelines updated for nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis for HIV
    Friday, May 9, 2025 from Medical Xpress - HIV & AIDS News
    Updated recommendations for antiretroviral nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (nPEP) for HIV have been published in the May 8 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
  • Anti-parasitic drug could accelerate the elimination of infection endemic to Africa
    Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called elephantiasis), a disease that leads to severe swelling and deformities of the limbs and genitals.
  • HIV testing and outreach falter as Trump funding cuts sweep the South
    Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    Storm clouds hung low above a community center in Jackson, where pastor Andre Devine invited people inside for lunch. Hoagies with smoked turkey and ham drew the crowd, but several people lingered for free preventive health care: tests...
  • Where and why men die younger: global data breaks it down
    Sunday, May 4, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    A global study published in PLOS Medicine examined sex-disaggregated data on hypertension, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS across 204 countries. It revealed significant but context-dependent differences in disease burden, care access, and...
  • Semaglutide may slow ageing, improve cognition and curb alcohol use
    Sunday, May 4, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    Semaglutide and related weight-loss medications, known as GLP-1 agonists, may slow biological ageing, reduce inflammation, improve cognitive function and gut health, and reduce alcohol use in people living with HIV, according to studies...
  • Few new HIV cases among Polish PrEP users – most caused by errors with event-based PrEP
    Tuesday, April 29, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    There have been almost no scientific studies of the effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in central or eastern Europe. However, a recent study of 887 PrEP users, all gay and bisexual men, in the Polish city of Wroclaw,...
  • Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH slashed science funding across states that backed Trump
    Thursday, April 17, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    The National Institutes of Health's sweeping cuts of grants that fund scientific research are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., including in most states that backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
  • Manufacturer’s plans for equitable access to twice-yearly PrEP under fire
    Saturday, April 12, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    While plans for global access to lenacapavir, the twice-yearly injectable PrEP product which demonstrated extraordinary efficacy last year, have progressed unusually quickly, critics say that the arrangements are riddled with...
  • Call for urgent support as US funding cuts threaten HIV/AIDS programs
    Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from News-Medical.Net HIVAIDS News Feed
    In the face of ongoing funding disruptions to US foreign assistance programmes, a group of international experts calls for urgent action to ensure the continuation of life-saving interventions and support for children and families...
  • HIV testing requirements must be simplified for injectable PrEP to have a future
    Friday, March 21, 2025 from Aidsmap news - English
    Two slides presented at last week’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2025) in San Francisco starkly illustrated the cost of the almost-complete defunding of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provision via...
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