HIV Transmission & Prevention News

• Gilead Settles With Defendants in HIV PrEP Fraud Lawsuit Gilead settled its lawsuit alleging a $68 million scheme took advantage of its program to supply free HIV prevention drugs.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• New HIV Care Guidelines From the European AIDS Clinical Society The revised 2021 European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Guidelines contain extensive updates, guidance on COVID-19 management, and offer a broader range of preferred choices than US guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Adequately PrEPping the Next Generation Despite advances in HIV prevention, adolescents and young adults are still sorely unprepared.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Why Is Preexposure Prophylaxis So Underused in Brazil? Stigma and prejudice are implicated in the insufficient use of PrEP, but knowledge and availability of HIV prevention measures also may play a role.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
• HIV PrEP: Biden Admin Allocates $9.8B for National Program Can the US reach its goal to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic? The Biden Administration is putting a lot of $$ behind the effort.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2022
• MSM Have Higher CD4 Counts at HIV Diagnosis Than Heterosexuals The big-data era has arrived in HIV epidemiology, allowing researchers to better track viruses through communities and the effect of those viruses in communities.
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2022
• HIV Preventive Care Is Supposed to Be Free in the US The rules were issued clarifying that health plans need to cover the costs of prescription drugs to prevent HIV infection, lab tests, and medical appointments, at no cost. The erroneous billing continues.
  Kaiser Health News, March 03, 2022
• CROI 2022 16 Toddlers With HIV at Birth Had No Detectable Virus Since the Mississippi baby captured the imagination of scientists, researchers have been looking for a way to replicate that treatment-free remission. Should preemptive HIV ART apply to infants too?
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2022
• HIV Disparities Persist Among Black Americans A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights factors associated with higher rates of HIV in Black communities.
  Medscape Medical News, February 11, 2022
• Nobel-Winning Virologist Who Discovered HIV Dies at 89 Although Luc Montagnier's achievements on HIV were heralded, he was later widely criticized by the scientific community for his suggestions about autism and COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, February 10, 2022
• Blood Shortage Spurs Call for Donor Rule Change for Gay Men The Red Cross said it can provide only 75% of the blood requested by some hospitals.
  WebMD Health News, February 04, 2022
• Scientists Studying Link Between COVID Variants and Untreated HIV Leading South African scientists are set to investigate COVID-19 and HIV in tandem, amid mounting evidence that the collision of the two pandemics could be generating new coronavirus variants.
  Reuters Health Information, February 01, 2022
• CAB-LA Cost Might Be a Deal-Breaker for Payers and Patients Patients and providers anxiously await distribution of long-acting injectable PrEP, but the ante might be too high.
  Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2022
• HIV Stigma Persists Globally, According to Harris Poll We're 40 years into the AIDS epidemic, but 1980s-era stigma threatens strides in diagnosis and treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, February 01, 2022
• Moderna Launches Clinical Trials for HIV Vaccine Human clinical trials have started for an experimental HIV vaccine that uses the same kind of mRNA technology found in Moderna's successful COVID-19 vaccine, the drug company announced this week.
  WebMD Health News, January 28, 2022
• HIV Prevention Vaginal Ring Withdrawn From FDA Consideration One year after the World Health Organization recommended a vaginal ring to protect women from HIV following years of research — some done in the US — the ring will not be coming to US clinics. Here's why.
  Medscape Medical News, January 24, 2022
• California Pushes At-Home Tests for STIs California has become the first state to require health insurance to cover home tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as HIV, chlamydia, and syphilis.
  Kaiser Health News, January 05, 2022
• HIV: FDA Stops All Islatravir Oral and Implant Trials The hold on 13 trials followed observations that total lymphocyte and T-cell counts had dropped in some participants receiving islatravir in clinical studies. Seven of the trials were in phase 3.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2021
• USCHA 2021 Inadequate Routine Diabetes Screening Common in HIV Study shows most people with both HIV and diabetes fail to receive the basic recommendations for routine screenings to prevent complications.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2021
• USCHA 2021 HIV Testing Dips During Pandemic Raise Transmission Concerns Testing for HIV declined by nearly 50% in 2020 during COVID-19 restrictions; heightened awareness of testing by clinicians urged.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2021