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Mashup Score: 18Where did HIV come from? - 1 day(s) ago
The predominant forms of HIV originated in chimpanzees in central Africa and probably entered the human population between 1890 and 1920.
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Mashup Score: 10Dissent on doxyPEP: recent guidelines becoming more cautious - 2 day(s) ago
Two recent statements about taking the antibiotic doxycycline up to 72 hours after sex to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections, a prevention intervention known as doxyPEP, are notably more cautious about recommending its use than the first guidelines from California.
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Mashup Score: 26Lung cancer and HIV - 2 day(s) ago
People living with HIV have a higher risk of lung cancer than people without HIV. Many people do not have symptoms during the early stages of lung cancer.
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Mashup Score: 17
An online HIV prevention and relationship education programme developed by Dr Michael Newcomb and colleagues from Northwestern University is proving effective in reducing the risk of HIV in young male couples in the United States, a group disproportionately affected by HIV.
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Mashup Score: 16Changing HIV treatment - 4 day(s) ago
There are lots of reasons you might want or need to change treatment including virological failure, resistance, side effects and drug interactions.
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Mashup Score: 7Switching from TAF to TDF leads to weight loss - 5 day(s) ago
Switching from tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) to the older formulation of tenofovir disoproxil (TDF) resulted in modest weight loss in people with HIV in the Swiss HIV Cohort, researchers report in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. Switching from TAF to TDF also brought benefits in the forms of reduced cholesterol and triglycerides. In contrast, switching from TAF-containing treatment to a two-drug combination of dolutegravir/lamivudine or injectable cabotegravir/rilpivirine did not lead to any changes in weight.
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Mashup Score: 20Chronic kidney disease and HIV - 5 day(s) ago
HIV may contribute to kidney disease but the two most common causes are diabetes and high blood pressure. Lifestyle changes can help keep kidney disease under control. Your HIV clinic will monitor your kidney function regularly.
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Mashup Score: 21Danish study finds that STI rates in gay men increase before they start PrEP, not after - 5 day(s) ago
A Danish study which was able to chart the annual incidence of the three bacterial STIs, chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis, in people attending sexual health clinics both before and after they started PrEP has found that they had more than twice as many (115% more) STI diagnoses while on PrEP than they had some time before starting it.
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Mashup Score: 20Types of antiretroviral medications - 9 day(s) ago
There are more than 30 antiretroviral medications in six drug classes. Each class of drug attacks HIV at a different stage of the HIV lifecycle.
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Mashup Score: 3
A study of cryptococcal meningitis incidence in people with HIV in Botswana shows that incidence has halved since 2015 and that the decline is correlated to increased antiretroviral coverage. But the study found that men were more likely to be diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis than women and that illness related to advanced HIV remains a substantial problem despite achieving near-universal treatment coverage.
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Tuesday 23 April 2024 marked 40 years since scientists discovered that HIV causes AIDS. Find out where HIV came from and about HIV in the UK – then and now – in our pages on aidsmap. https://t.co/06xr6bQBO3 https://t.co/A7CYid4dnl https://t.co/xTOtaC6qIo