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Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir PrEP Prevents HIV in Women
The twice-yearly HIV capsid inhibitor lenacapavir demonstrated 100% efficacy for preventing acquisition of the virus in a large study of young cisgender women in Africa, Gilead Sciences announced yesterday. The PURPOSE 1 trial showed that lenacapavir pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), administered by subcutaneous injection once every six months, significantly reduced HIV...
Robert Gallo, Codiscoverer of HIV, Takes His Research to Tampa
Robert Gallo, MD, the influential virologist who codiscovered HIV and developed a test for the virus, will be joining the University of South Florida (USF) faculty as director of a new virology center, according to a USF news release. USF also announced that it will play host to the international...
Learning How to Live and Die With Long COVID
This story was originally published by High Country News. he heady scent of wet creosote hung in the air the morning we skirted impossible alluvial fans on our way to the lowest point in North America. Since the Pleistocene, Badwater Basin, 236 feet below sea level, has primarily been a salt flat, but deluges from Hurricane Hilary and a recent atmospheric river had filled the pan with billions of gallons of water. Lake Manly was a zombie, back from the dead. Many said it was the largest it had been for decades. Pushed by strong winds in March, it even drifted two miles north, like some kind of restless soul.
Biden Leans Into Health Care, Asking Voters To Trust Him Over Trump
Angling to tap into strong support for the sweeping health law he helped pass 14 years ago, one of President Joe Biden’s latest reelection strategies is to remind voters that former President Donald Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “Folks, he’s coming for your health care, and...
Americans With HIV Are Living Longer. Federal Spending Isn’t Keeping Up.
Malcolm Reid recently marked the anniversary of his HIV diagnosis on Facebook. “Diagnosed with HIV 28 years ago, AND TODAY I THRIVE,” he wrote in a post in April, which garnered dozens of responses. Reid, an advocate for people with HIV, said he’s happy he made it to...
San Francisco Tries Tough Love by Tying Welfare to Drug Rehab
Raymond Llano carries a plastic bag with everything he owns in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, and the flattened cardboard box he uses as a bed under his arm as he waits in line for lunch at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. At 55, he hasn’t had a home for 15 years, since he lost a job at Target.
Dennis Shares His MDR HIV Treatment Journey
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Infectious H5N1 Influenza Virus in Raw Milk Rapidly Declines With Heat Treatment
The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. However, small, detectable amounts of infectious virus remained in raw milk samples...
Urged on by LGBTQ+ Activists, California Cities Weigh Stricter Smoking Rules
California has long been at the forefront of the fight against smoking, but some local officials in the San Francisco Bay Area, backed by activists who are especially concerned about high rates of smoking in the LGBTQ+ community, are spearheading proposals to further restrict how tobacco is sold and where it is smoked.
AIDS/LifeCycle 2024 Bike Ride Raises Nearly $11M for HIV Services
With seven days and 545 miles behind them, cyclists in the 2024 AIDS/LifeCycle ride raised $10,984,492 for HIV services. The annual event, which ended June 8, is coproduced by and supports the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. The first ride took place in 1994,...
Progress Against Anal Cancer Opens Door to Screening and Prevention
When Daniel G. Garza was diagnosed with anal cancer a decade ago, he had never heard of the disease. “Do you mean colorectal cancer?” he asked the doctor. The doctor explained that Garza had a tumor on his anal sphincter. At the time, Garza had been living with HIV for 14 years. But he did not know that gay and bisexual men, especially those with HIV, have an increased risk of anal cancer.
New Definition for Long COVID Could Aid in Consistent Diagnosis, Documentation and Treatment
A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report says the federal government, state and local authorities, clinicians, medical societies and organizations, public health practitioners, employers, educators, and others should adopt a new definition for “Long COVID” — that it is an infection-associated chronic condition that occurs after COVID-19 infection and is present for at least three months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that affects one or more organ systems.
Experts Warn of Serious Health Impacts From Climate Change
Pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents and older people are facing serious health complications due to climate change, according to a new collection of papers published in the Journal of Global Health, and yet the specific needs of these groups have been largely neglected in the climate response. The articles document...
Bird Flu Tests Are Hard To Get. So How Will We Know When To Sound the Pandemic Alarm?
Stanford University infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan has seen a lot of patients with runny noses, fevers, and irritated eyes lately. Such symptoms could signal allergies, COVID, or a cold. This year, there’s another suspect, bird flu — but there’s no way for most doctors to know.
Novel Vaccine Concept Generates Immune Responses That Could Produce Multiple Types Of HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
Using a combination of cutting-edge immunologic technologies, researchers have successfully stimulated animals’ immune systems to induce rare precursor B cells of a class of HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs). The findings, published [May 30] in Nature Immunology, are an encouraging, incremental step in developing a preventive HIV vaccine. HIV...
Biden Administration Advances Plan To Remove Medical Debt From Credit Scores
Americans would no longer have to worry about medical debts dragging down their credit scores under federal regulations proposed Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If enacted, the rules would dramatically expand protections for tens of millions of Americans burdened by medical bills they can’t afford. The regulations...
WHO Releases Strategic Framework for Enhancing Prevention and Control of Mpox
Mpox continues to affect people around the world. A new framework released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) will guide health authorities, communities and other stakeholders in preventing and controlling mpox outbreaks, eliminating human-to-human transmission of the disease, and reducing spillover of the virus from animals to humans. Mpox...
Safety-Net Health Clinics Cut Services and Staff Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding’
One of Montana’s largest health clinics that serves people in poverty has cut back services and laid off workers. The retrenchment mirrors similar cuts around the country as safety-net health centers feel the effects of states purging their Medicaid rolls. Billings-based RiverStone Health is eliminating 42 jobs this spring,...
AIDSVu Adds Visualized Data on Stigma
With a goal of reducing and tracking the stigmas that act as a barrier to HIV prevention, treatment and care—as well as a hindrance to better overall health outcomes—AIDSVu recently added a new online feature, the JHU Stigma Dashboard that offers visualized stigma-related data. Currently, the dashboard tracks sexual behavior stigma in Georgia, New York and Maryland. Specifically, it includes data on men who have sex with men in those states. Additional data and geographic areas will be added to the dashboard in future phases.
“They Bungled It”: NIH Documents Reveal How $1.6 Billion Long Covid Initiative Has Failed so Far to Meet its Goals
The NIH made key structural errors in setting up RECOVER, namely concentrating funding with a small number of researchers and, in selecting those researchers, failing to prioritize people who had experience in studying or treating post-infectious chronic diseases before the pandemic. Structural issues with RECOVER fit into broader patterns with...
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