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Drug-Resistance Mutations May Curb Efficacy of Dolutegravir-Based Regimens in Zimbabwe Teens With HIV

"Public health (officials) should definitely be aware of the implications of drug resistance mutations conferring resistance to tenofovir and/or lamivudine on the activity, efficacy and durability of DTG in such a country, knowing that at present, individual- level HIV drug resistance testing in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is rare and that data are lacking on DTG use in settings with limited or no viral load monitoring."

Published
07 July 2019
From
Medscape (free registration required)
Resistance
Genotype Testing at HIV Diagnosis Provides No Benefit

For the majority of people with HIV in the US, the current treatment guidelines recommend an integrase strand inhibitor paired with an NRTI as first-line ART. Therefore, baseline genotype results currently guide the choice of initial NRTI pair, given transmitted NRTI resistance (NRTI-R). With this evolution of HIV treatment, the role and value of baseline genotype testing has become uncertain. This study determined the clinical and economic value of baseline genotype testing for people newly diagnosed with HIV in the US.

Published
25 June 2019
From
Infectious Disease Advisor
Opportunistic infections
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.

Published
08 April 2019
From
New York Times
Treatment-experienced people
Can high-dose dolutegravir be a rescue therapy?

A small study in Italy found that high doses of the powerful integrase inhibitor dolutegravir (Tivicay, and also found in Juluca and Triumeq) can be used as a key part of rescue therapy for people with HIV that has extensive drug resistance to treatment. When doctors doubled the dose typically prescribed for treatment-experienced people to 100 mg twice daily, they found that high-dose dolutegravir was well absorbed with no occurrence of neuropsychiatric or serious side effects.

Published
12 March 2019
From
CATIE
Sexually transmitted infections prevention
Should we be concerned some gay men are buying antibiotics online for STIs?

A leading online provider of PrEP also sells the antibiotic doxycycline - but why are people buying it and why are health organizations concerned?

Published
28 December 2018
From
Gay Star News
Resistance
Resistance to second-line ARTs increasing in South Africa

An increasing number of HIV patients in the Western Cape and other parts of South Africa are experiencing resistance to second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART). The Star reports that this was revealed by the fifth South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey conducted last year by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). The survey found resistance to ARVs in 27.4% of the respondents who were not virally suppressed.

Published
14 December 2018
From
Medical Brief
Resistance
Uganda:15 Percent HIV-Positive Ugandans Resistant to Drugs - Report

Nearly two in every 10 people living with HIV in Uganda are resistant to antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs, according to findings in a study report that Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) released yesterday. This, the researchers said, requires them to switch to more expensive and scarce medicines.

Published
13 September 2018
From
AllAfrica
Treatment-experienced people
Ibalizumab Provides New Option for Patients with Multidrug-Resistant HIV

A newly published phase 3 study of patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) HIV shows that ibalizumab can be a safe and effective option for patients with limited other avenues of treatment.

Published
23 August 2018
From
MD Magazine
New and experimental HIV treatments
New HIV therapy reduces virus, boosts immunity in drug-resistant patients

Ibaluzimab, a CD4 receptor inhibitor and the first monoclonal antibody developed as an anti-HIV drug, was approved for treatment in the US for people with multiply drug-resistant HIV (MDR-HIV) last February. In the results of a phase III study published today, 83% of a group of patients with MDR-HIV achieved an undetectable viral load on ibaluzimab and 50% maintained this over six months. Details of this and another phase III study will be presented later htis year.

Published
16 August 2018
From
Science Daily
PrEP
Reported 'PrEP Failure' in Thailand May Be a Missed Acute HIV Infection: Here's What You Need to Know

The Infectious Diseases Society of America reported on June 29, 2018, that a new HIV acquisition had been found in a person using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). According to the journal article, a 28-year-old cisgender male in Thailand began using PrEP on March 16, 2016, after being verified HIV negative by a third generation antibody test. However the third generation antibody test available in this case has a window period of three to 12 weeks, with 3% of the population still testing HIV negative after 12 weeks. This is why clinical testing sites use RNA testing whenever possible, as the RNA test from May 13 did show positive for HIV while the third generation antibody test on the same day showed HIV negative.

Published
17 July 2018
From
TheBody PRO
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We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

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