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It’s rare in any branch of medicine that a trial of a new drug can report 100% efficacy, and a first in HIV science. But that’s what happened on Friday, when Gilead Sciences announced that no HIV ...
Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP), which was found to be highly effective at preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among gay men and transgender women, did not protect young ...
Professor Yvonne Bryson of the University of California Los Angeles described the new case at the conference and an accompanying press briefing. The middle-aged (post-menopausal) woman, a participant ...
Over half of funding for anti-gender actors in Europe appears to come from within Europe itself, with significant amounts of money also flowing from the US and the Russian Federation, according to ...
The British HIV Association (BHIVA) has recommended that everyone living with HIV aged 40 and over should take a statin to reduce their risk of heart disease, even if they do not have raised ...
📢 With heavy hearts, we announce the proposed closure of our beloved charity, NAM aidsmap, this month. After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through ...
An Israeli biotech company has issued a misleading press release which has encouraged some media outlets to falsely suggest that a new drug, Gammora, may be able to cure HIV. Zion Medical report that ...
A man in southern California, dubbed the 'City of Hope patient', appears to be the latest person cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare mutation, bringing the ...
But injectable HIV treatment could have a future in the global south, particularly when other long-acting products are developed, experts said at the 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV ...
South Africa is expected to begin piloting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in 2023, health financing mechanism Unitaid tells aidsmap. The demonstration study will be the first of many ...
Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment, according to a pair of posters presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI ...
A US study that provided gay and bisexual men and transgender women with the antibiotic doxycycline to take after condomless sex was stopped a year early because of its high efficacy, the 24th ...