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Find out here how business performance and renewables go hand-in-hand in Kenya’s rural health clinics https://bit.ly/2EDSV3o

C-Path and CDISC release global Therapeutic Area Standard for HIV research The Critical Path Institute and CDISC are pleased to announce the release of a global Therapeutic Area Standard that specifies how to structure commonly collected data and outcome measurements in clinical trials for HIV.

What You Need to Know When You First Find Out You Have HIV Your diagnosis may seem overwhelming, but we can help you through it. Here’s what you need to do next.

Searching for a cure for HIV and AIDS There has been a lot of promising cure research but scientists can't yet completely remove HIV from the body.

Atlanta HIV-Positive Kidney Donor Makes History Nina Martinez is the first HIV-positive kidney donor in the world.

Internet-based interventions for people with HIV and depression Many people with HIV have depression or depressive symptoms.1 This comorbidity might prevent individuals from accessing HIV care, result in poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy, accelerate disease progression, and increase the risk of suicide.1 The provision of effective depression treatment is....

'Female Condom' Gets a Genderless Rebrand From FDA After years of pressure from prevention advocates, FDA has finally given the other rubber a new name - the internal condom – and a new classification.

Six innovative models for PrEP services For pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to have a substantial public health impact, access to PrEP needs to be improved so that more people who would benefit from it receive PrEP. Services need to adapt and innovate. A series of recent articles, most of them published in a special issue of Sexual Health...

Canadians’ awareness, knowledge and attitudes related to s*xually transmitted and blood-borne infections CATIE - Canada's source for HIV and hepatitis C information

Social and network factors may explain higher HIV infection rates for black men who have s*x with men in the US Young black gay and bis*xual men are more likely to be exposed to HIV than their white or Hispanic peers even though they have fewer s*x partners overall and have less condomless a**l s*x, a study from Chicago has found. Dr Brian Mustanski and colleagues at Northwestern University found three factor...

Insufficient food linked to inflammation in HIV-positive women CATIE - Canada's source for HIV and hepatitis C information

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PrEP promotion should be positive and inclusive Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programmes should adopt modern marketing strategies that are attractive to healthy individuals and that might promote an inclusive and holistic vision of PrEP, Dr K Rivet Amico and Professor Linda-Gail Bekker argue in an opinion piece published in The Lancet HIV. They...