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HIVR4P 2016: More Viral Suppression Needed to Reduce HIV Infections Among Gay Men
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- Category: Cascade of Care
- Created on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 00:00
HIV suppression on antiretroviral therapy (ART) would need to increase substantially among men who have sex with men in order to take advantage of "treatment as prevention" to reduce the rate of new HIV infections, according to a mathematical modeling study presented at the HIV Research for Prevention conference (HIVR4P 2016) taking place this week in Chicago.
HIVR4P: New HIV Prevention Tools Will Need Marketing and Effective Health Services to Expand Reach
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Created on Tuesday, 01 November 2016 00:00
There is a naivety among many HIV prevention researchers and advocates about the steps needed to introduce and implement new HIV prevention technologies such as oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), vaginal rings, and vaccines, according to speakers at the HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P 2016) conference in Chicago last month. Developing an effective prevention method is the easy part, they suggested -- ensuring that the product reaches end users who need them can be more challenging.
HIVR4P 2016: The Long Tail Problem -- Injectable PrEP Trial To Be Extended Due to Drug Persistence
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Created on Monday, 14 November 2016 00:00
A study presented at last month’s HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P) conference in Chicago shows that in a minority of people who were given the experimental injectable drug cabotegravir as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the drug was still measurable in their body a full year after their last injection.
HIVR4P 2016: Rings, Films or Inserts? Prevention Products Need to Make Sense in Women's Lives
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Created on Saturday, 22 October 2016 00:00
"We need to think outside of the box," Sharon Hillier of the Microbicide Trials Network told participants at the HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P 2016) conference this week in Chicago. Researchers should not be aiming to develop the most scientifically elegant solution for HIV prevention, but should "figure out how to make products that can really fit into people’s lives."
IDWeek 2016: HIV+ Men and Men on PrEP in Boston See Large Increase in Sexually Transmitted Infections
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Created on Tuesday, 01 November 2016 00:00
Rates of gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia have risen steeply at Fenway Health in Boston since 2011, according to presentation last week at IDWeek in New Orleans. Being HIV-positive and using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV were associated with higher risk of getting-sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but more frequent STI testing and treatment could potentially help reduce the numbers.
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- IDWeek 2016: Electronic Health Records Can Help Select Candidates for HIV PrEP
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- HIVR4P 2016: PrEP Knowledge and Use Increases in San Francisco, 12,500 People Now on PrEP
- HIVR4P 2016: Policymakers' Inaction is Leading People to Take "PrEP in the Wild"
- HIVR4P 2016: Second Case Report of PrEP Failure Due to Drug-Resistant Virus
- HIVR4P 2016: Vaginal and Rectal Bacteria May Influence HIV Transmission and Microbicide Efficacy
- HIVR4P 2016: Anal Sex May Transmit 4 in 10 HIV Infections Among High-Risk U.S. Women
- HIVR4P 2016: New Microbicide Enema Achieves High Levels of Drug in Rectal Tissues in Monkeys
- HIVR4P 2016: Huge Diversity in HIV Vaccine Research Discussed at Prevention Conference
- IDWeek 2016: Only a Small Proportion of HIV+ Gay Men Receive Anal Cancer Screening
- IDWeek 2016: Rapid Emergence of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Seen in Ohio
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