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Estimated HIV risk per exposure - Aidsmap
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.
Islatravir plus lenacapavir could be the first once-weekly oral HIV ...
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 …
Are HIV tests accurate in people taking HIV treatment, PrEP
This problem occurs much more frequently in people who began HIV treatment in the first few weeks of infection.For example, up to half of individuals who began treatment very early in infection in Thailand and in France got false negative results of some tests, including rapid tests, self-tests and (less frequently) laboratory tests.. Tests based on second-generation technology …
The stages of HIV infection - Aidsmap
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).
How likely is mother-to-child transmission of HIV? - Aidsmap
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 time of labour …
On-demand PrEP is highly effective, but some may find it confusing
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 …
Recommended treatments for HIV - Aidsmap
Draft guidelines from the British HIV Association (BHIVA) list a range of options for people taking HIV treatment. The draft was published in May 2022 and is open for consultation until 9 June 2022; the finalised guidelines will be published some time after that.. The guidelines include recommendations for the drug combinations to choose from when starting HIV treatment or …
HIV treatment breaks - Aidsmap
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