HIV AIDS News
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Cost Puts HIV-Preventing PrEP Out of Reach for Many
The daily drug regimen known as PrEP is a nearly foolproof way to prevent HIV infection. But a new study suggests that many high-risk Americans may be giving the medication a pass because of cost.
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An HIV Drug You Only Take Twice a Year?
A single injection of the experimental drug, called lenacapavir, was able to lower blood levels of HIV in a small group of patients. And it was capable of maintaining active levels in the blood for more than six months.
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People With HIV Still Live Shorter, Sicker Lives
HIV may not be the death sentence it was 20 or 30 years ago, but people who are HIV-positive still face much shorter lives than other adults -- even if they're treated with medications that make the virus undetectable.
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HIV Can Travel From the Brain, Study Suggests
HIV can reside in brain cells and spread the AIDS-causing virus to the body, a new study in mice indicates.
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AIDS Activist, Playwright Larry Kramer Dies at 84
Kramer struggled with illness for much of his adult life, including infection with the AIDS-causing HIV virus. He also had a liver disease and required a liver transplant.
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Research Moves Toward Once-Yearly HIV Treatment
Researchers have reformulated an HIV medication into a version they hope can eventually be taken as infrequently as once a year.
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Pricey New HIV PrEP Drug No Better Than Generics
The study authors said that their analysis found that an expensive new branded formulation of PrEP -- touted as being safer by the company that makes it -- would in reality be no better than cheaper generics.
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Second HIV Patient Reportedly 'Cured'
Adam Castillejo was known until recently only as the "London patient." Now, after surviving years of grueling treatments, he says he sees himself as an "ambassador of hope" for others.
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Another HIV Hazard: Higher Risk for COPD
Compared to those without the AIDS-causing virus, people with HIV had a 34% higher rate of COPD and were diagnosed with the lung disease about 12 years earlier -- average age 50 versus 62, the investigators found.
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Few Teen Boys at Risk for HIV Get Tested
Close to 15% of HIV infections in the United States are undiagnosed, but the undiagnosed rate is more than 3.5 times higher (51%) among 13- to 24-year-olds, according to the study authors.
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HIV Vaccine Ineffective, Clinical Trial Halted
The announcement that the HIV vaccine clinical trial has been stopped is a "deep disappointment," said a news release from the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, a group formed to spur efforts to develop an HIV vaccine, CNN reported.
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HIV Drug Costs Soaring, Jeopardizing Effort to End Epidemic
Even with new generic options, initial treatments now top $36,000 per patient per year, according to the study.
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Program Gives Uninsured Free HIV Prevention Drugs
However only about 18% of the 1.2 million Americans who might benefit from the medications got a prescription last year, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
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New Strain of HIV Discovered
The new strain is a part of the same family of virus subtypes that have fueled the global HIV pandemic, according to Abbott Laboratories, which conducted the research with the University of Missouri.
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HIV Could Speed Menopause Onset
Treatment advances are keeping people with the virus alive longer, and those who adhere to therapy are expected to live into their mid-70s or longer.
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Scientists Use CRISPR Tool in Attempt to Cure HIV
Chinese researchers used the tool to give a patient blood cells that were altered to resist the AIDS-causing virus, the Associated Press reported.
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Most Americans Have Never Had an HIV Test: CDC
Less than 40% of Americans have ever had an HIV test.
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Expert Panel Backs PrEP for People at High HIV Risk
Best known as the two-drug combo pill Truvada, PrEP prevents HIV from establishing a permanent infection in people exposed through sex or injection drug use, the CDC says.
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For Women With HIV, Life Can Hurt Fight for Health
The study of nearly 2,000 HIV-positive women in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and San Francisco who have been followed since 1994 found that many have been able to control their HIV levels, off and on.
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Drug Regimen Halts HIV Even Without Condoms
The study provides conclusive evidence that the risk of transmission through sex is zero when virus levels are undetectable because antiretroviral therapy, or ART.
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Two Test Positive for HIV After 'Vampire Facial'
The treatment became popular after Kim Kardashian underwent the procedure on camera for her show Kim and Kourtney Take Miami in 2013.
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Depression Plus HIV Can Turn Deadly
The researchers called for more effective depression screening and integration of depression treatment into HIV primary care.
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2-Party HIV Positive Kidney Transplant Reported
A 35-year-old Atlanta woman who contracted HIV as a newborn offered one of her kidneys to an HIV-positive stranger, and doctors at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine performed the procedure on Monday.
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CDC: 40% with HIV Cause 80% of New Infections
A new government program hopes to address the urgent needs by getting more people tested for HIV and boosting treatment rates.
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Second Man Is HIV-Free After Stem Cell Transplant
In only the second known case worldwide, a man is free of HIV after a stem cell transplant, doctors say.
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