Gay and bisexual men with HIV should get vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV) up until age 40, according to updated guidelines from the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), released this week at the 16th European AIDS Conference. And others with HIV should be vaccinated until age 26, the guidelines state.
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- 30 October 2017
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Medscape (requires free registration)
GPs and practice nurses are wrongfully being told to advise patients with HIV to stop taking their medication after receiving the flu jab. EMIS Health is urgently working to update a its systems after users highlighted the problem, which it said was due to ‘ambiguity’ in available clinical guidance.
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- 20 October 2017
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Pulse
Computer systems used by GPs are giving an incorrect alert on flu vaccines. Patients are being urged to carry on having vaccinations and taking their ARVs as normal.
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- 11 October 2017
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Beyond Positive
Yesterday, a short-sighted and shameful recommendation was made not to give teenage boys the potentially life-saving Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine.
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- 21 July 2017
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Huffington Post
The HPV vaccination should not be extended to boys as it is not cost-effective, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended. In an interim statement, published today by the Department of Health, the JCVI concluded that the risk of infection in males has already been substantially reduced by good vaccine uptake in girls.
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- 19 July 2017
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The vaccine will be offered to men who have sex with men (MSM) up to and including the age of 45 who attend sexual health or HIV clinics.
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- 05 July 2017
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STV
Men who have sex with men (MSM) have an increased risk of meningococcal disease, investigators from the United States report in the online edition of
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- 06 June 2017
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- Michael Carter
Between February 2016 and February 2017, three clusters involving 287 confirmed cases of hepatitis A (HAV) have been reported across 13 EU countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Most of the notified cases were among men who have sex with men (MSM) who had not been vaccinated against HAV.
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- 28 February 2017
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ECDC
A simple vaccine is available to prevent infection.
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- 01 February 2017
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Gay Star News
Gay men and transgender people in England now have limited access to the HPV vaccine. Early results from an ongoing pilot study are extremely encouraging.
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- 18 January 2017
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HIV i-Base
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