25th Annual BHIVA conference – 2019

aidsmap news from BHIVA 2019

• Most UK clinic staff now tell people about U=U, but not always in the same way

  Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
  Gus Cairns | 29 April 2019

  Two presentations at this month’s British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in Bournemouth show that most specialist healthcare workers are now informing people with HIV that if their viral load becomes undetectable as ...

• Breastfeeding with an undetectable viral load: some insights into the current UK situation

  Infant feeding
  Michael Carter | 26 April 2019

  Over a third of HIV-positive women in the final stages of pregnancy or who have recently given birth would like to breastfeed, according to research presented to the recent British HIV Association ...

• First data on trans people accessing HIV care in England

  Transgender people
  Roger Pebody | 23 April 2019

  There is a dearth of data on transgender and non-binary people receiving HIV care in the UK, but Public Health England (PHE) is beginning to redress this: 123 trans people were recorded ...

• Older black HIV-positive women have more mental distress than other women with HIV, but get less help for it

  Ethnic and cultural minorities
  Gus Cairns | 17 April 2019

  A study looking at women aged over 45 living with HIV in the UK has found that while black African and Caribbean women experience greater social isolation and subjective mental distress than ...

• English clinic survey finds that 40% of gay men with new hepatitis C infections are HIV negative

  Hepatitis C transmission and prevention
  Gus Cairns | 07 April 2019

  A study of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with recently acquired hepatitis C infection and treated in three English clinics has found that 40% of them were HIV negative, the 25th Annual Conference of ...

• Raltegravir plus lamivudine is likely to work as PrEP

  PrEP science
  Gus Cairns | 05 April 2019

  A combination of the drugs raltegravir and lamivudine produced acceptable drug levels in both women and men, in rectal and vaginal tissues, suggesting that the two drugs could provide an ...