After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through information, we have now ceased operations. This website will be accessible until September 2025, with all the information being up to date as of July 2024.

After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through information, we have now ceased operations. This website will be accessible until September 2025, with all the information being up to date as of July 2024.

Mar 6, 2024 · A once-weekly oral regimen can keep HIV suppressed as well as daily pills, according to study results presented today at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024).. In a phase II clinical trial, 94% of people who switched to weekly islatravir and lenacapavir pills maintained an undetectable viral load, matching the viral suppression rate of those who stayed on ...

Most descriptions of the stages of HIV infection describe the natural history of HIV, in other words how, over time, the disease progresses in people who are not taking HIV treatment. They show how HIV progressively attacks and weakens the immune system, eventually leading to AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome).

Without any sort of treatment or care, the chance of a woman with HIV passing it on to her baby is considerable. Before antiretroviral therapy and other preventative measures were introduced, transmission rates per pregnancy were between 14 and 20% in European countries, and up to 43% in African countries.Transmission happened during pregnancy, around the …

In 2003 a case report of female-to-female sexual HIV transmission was published. Doctors suggest the woman may have been infected through sharing sex toys after drug-resistance tests found striking similarities between the genotypes of the woman and her female HIV-positive partner (Kwakwa).

Jul 8, 2020 · Educating clients at a San Francisco sexual health clinic about on-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) increased their desire to use the intermittent HIV prevention method, researchers reported this week at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual).Among the 24% of clients who did so, the rate of new infections and use of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) were low.

After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through information, we have now ceased operations. This website will be accessible until September 2025, with all the information being up to date as of July 2024.

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After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through information, we have now ceased operations. This website will be accessible until September 2025, with all the information being up to date as of July 2024.