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Current HIV prevention medication users often stigmatize other PrEP users as ‘promiscuous’

Written by | 22 Aug 2024

Public health messaging that drives stigma around Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication that can reduce HIV risk by up to 99%, appears to play a role in uptake […]

Out-of-pocket cost increase could put HIV prevention medications out of reach

Written by | 10 Jan 2024

Increasing patients’ out of pocket costs for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), medications, which have been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection, could lead to a […]

People living with HIV at substantially higher risk of depression and suicide, especially in first 2 years after diagnosis

Written by | 9 Apr 2023

People living with HIV (PLWH) are far more likely to be diagnosed with depression, take antidepressants, be treated with electroconvulsive therapy, and commit suicide than population controls, especially […]

Patient possibly cured of HIV infection by special stem-cell transplant

Written by | 23 Feb 2022

A patient living with HIV who received a blood stem cell transplant for high-risk acute myeloid leukemia has been free of the virus for 14 months after stopping […]

Young male students at the centre of HIV surge

Written by | 20 Jul 2021

There has been a rapid rise in the number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in China since the dawn of the 21st century. In the recent past, […]

How HIV infection shrinks the brain’s white matter

Written by | 19 Jun 2021

It’s long been known that people living with HIV experience a loss of white matter in their brains. As opposed to “gray matter,” which is composed of the […]

Mobile gaming app enhances HIV care

Written by | 10 May 2021

Survival rates among people living with HIV have soared over several decades, thanks to antiretroviral therapies. However, as maintaining long-term treatment can be a burden, researchers have been […]

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