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Transgender people
What the Trans Community Needs to Know About New Expert Recommendations

New provider recommendations aimed at doctors caring for trans patients were published on July 1 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, including changes that overall make it easier to identify trans patients and provide medical care for trans individuals.

Published
08 July 2019
From
The Body
Changing treatment
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)
Achieving the 90-90-90 target
WHO’s “Treat All” Policy Had Immediate Effect on Global HIV Treatment Rates

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation in 2015 that all nations provide HIV treatment regardless of an individual’s CD4 count had a rapid and stark effect on increasing rates of rapid access to antiretrovirals (ARVs) in various developing nations.

Published
04 July 2019
From
POZ
Mental and emotional health problems
One in five Americans living with HIV experience severe anxiety on an almost daily basis

A fifth of HIV-positive adults in the United States regularly experience symptoms of anxiety, according to research published in AIDS. Individuals with symptoms of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)

Published
04 July 2019
By
Michael Carter
The search for a cure
Have mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing?

The claim is they have eliminated HIV from living animals for the first time, by cutting it out of its hiding places in the body – in other words, that they have cured the animals.

Published
03 July 2019
From
New Scientist
How HIV works
HIV eliminated from the genomes of living animals

In a major collaborative effort, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have for the first time eliminated replication-competent HIV-1 DNA -- the virus responsible for AIDS -- from the genomes of living animals. The study, reported online July 2 in the journal Nature Communications, marks a critical step toward the development of a possible cure for human HIV infection.

Published
03 July 2019
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
New and experimental HIV treatments
ViiV Healthcare receives EU marketing authorisation for Dovato (dolutegravir/lamivudine), a new once-daily, single-pill, two-drug regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 infection

Authorisation based on GEMINI pivotal trials in which Dovato achieved non-inferior efficacy compared to a dolutegravir-based, three-drug regimen through 48 weeks, with no cases of resistance.

Published
03 July 2019
From
ViiV press release
The search for a cure
Fifty years of HIV: how close are we to a cure?

It’s half a century since the first known HIV-related death and two patients appear to have been cured of the virus. What does this mean for the 37 million still living with it?

Published
03 July 2019
From
The Guardian
Starting treatment
Immediate treatment is probably especially beneficial for people with recent HIV infection

Immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment produced the biggest boost in CD4 cell count for people infected with HIV less than six months previously, an analysis of the

Published
03 July 2019
By
Keith Alcorn
Bad science and bogus treatments
‘You don’t have AIDS’: RT documentary takes on Russia’s top HIV denialist

The spread of HIV/AIDS in Russia is often called an epidemic, but the fight against the disease has a peculiar enemy: denialists who say it's all a hoax. They aren't just bloggers and celebrities, but influential medics too.

Published
01 July 2019
From
Russia Today
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

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.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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