Category Archives: HIV care & treatment
Injection-free technique could solve global HIV vaccine challenge
via Positively Aware, Chicago Scientists at King’s College, London, have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional injection, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to enable specialized immune cells in the skin to…Read More
Smoking cuts lifespan of HIV-positive people by 15 years
A large observational study reported in December 2012 that HIV-positive people have a significantly higher risk for death and shorter lifespans than their HIV-negative counterparts. The study showed that even with well-controlled virus, HIV-positive smokers lose far more years to smoking than they do to HIV…Read More
New 800mg Prezista tablets reduce daily pill count
The FDA approved a new 800mg tablet of Prezista (darunavir) on November 9, 2012. This new formulation will allow people to take one pill daily instead of two 400mg pills of the drug daily, which is the current standard of care. People new to treatment as…Read More
Results from the SPRING-2 study were reported in the January 8, 2013 advanced edition of The Lancet. The 48-week, double-blind study followed people new to treatment who took either the experimental integrase inhibitor dolutegravir or the approved integrase inhibitor raltegravir (Isentress). A total of 822 people…Read More
At the end of December 2012, the FDA approved the first medication (crofelemer/Fulyzaq) to relieve the symptoms of diarrhea in people who are taking HIV medications. Many people who take HIV meds experience diarrhea, which can lead to some stopping or switching their meds. The approval…Read More
Influential US Task Force now recommends HIV testing for broader portion of Americans
New draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) were issued recently to routinely test all adolescents and adults between 15 and 65 years of age for HIV infection, as well as others who fall outside of this age range if they are at…Read More
Can surveillance data improve HIV care?
On November 5 and 6, Project Inform convened a meeting in San Francisco, bringing together community advocates and public health professionals to answer a complex question: When and how should surveillance data be used to help find those who aren’t linked to HIV medical care and…Read More