HIV Transmission & Prevention Perspective

 
 

  • New HIV PrEP Guidelines This update gives healthcare providers the latest guidance on prescribing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) -- a powerful tool for HIV prevention -- to their patients.
  • Episode 2: HIV Testing and Linkage to Care   Dr Michael Saag and Dr Aadia Rana discuss best practices that providers can implement to prevent the spread of HIV in their local communities and connect HIV-positive patients to lifesaving care.
  • Be Prepared to Talk PrEP Physicians may be missing opportunities to discuss HIV prevention with their sexually active patients.
  • CROI 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from CROI 2022
  • USCHA 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from USCHA 2021.
  • The Parallels Between the HIV and COVID-19 Pandemics   David A. Wohl, MD, considers how the development of prevention and treatment strategies for COVID-19 is the history of the evolution of HIV prevention and treatment strategies compressed into a few months.
  • ANAC 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ANAC 2021
  • EACS 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EACS 2021
  • IRIS in HIV: 'Why Is My Patient Getting Worse?' Dr James Brust discusses why some patients experience immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, a disease- or pathogen-specific immune response that can mimic an active opportunistic infection.
  • IAS 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from IAS 2021
  • New! Spotlight on Medical Power Couples: Their Extraordinary Lives Infectious disease experts and spouses juggle their personal lives with major disease outbreaks; plus the only married couple in the United States to lead separate medical schools.
  • A Framework for Comprehensive HIV Primary Care Once viral suppression is achieved, the focus of primary care for people with HIV is in many ways the same as for those without HIV, which increasingly includes the problems associated with aging.
  • CROI 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from CROI 2021
  • Does Your Patient Have Latent TB Infection? Test Your Knowledge Learn how to identify and treat latent tuberculosis infection, thereby preventing TB disease and accelerating progress toward elimination.
  • HIV and AIDS: Overview Video   Review key aspects of HIV and AIDS —including transmission, disease progression, and prevention and treatment—with this quick overview video.
  • ANAC 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ANAC 2020
  • USCHA 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from USCA 2020
  • HIV Glasgow 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from HIV Glasgow 2020
  • Are New COVID-19 Treatments More Important Than a Vaccine?   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Davey Smith about why developing early therapies for COVID-19 may be more important than creating a vaccine.
  • Confronting the HIV Epidemic: Taking Down Silos   Physicians and their patients report that engagement in an HIV-based community rivals drug effectiveness in the ongoing efforts to curtail an epidemic.