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YSPH Partners With University of Puerto Rico to Address HIV

Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health are teaming up with colleagues at the University of Puerto Rico to improve access to testing, treatment and care for people living with HIV in the capital city, San Juan. With support from the National Institutes of Health, the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)

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Conquering Obstacles in Dating With HIV

Living with HIV is not easy, nor is dating when you have the virus, but it is your ‘new normal’ and some adjustments are definitely required. Dating after you have been diagnosed with HIV seems like a distant memory. First, there is the initial shock and fear for your overall health, then comes the realization

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Gilead reports new data from Discover trial

Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) announces findings from the DISCOVER trial evaluating Descovy (emtricitabine 200 mg and tenofovir alafenamide 25 mg tablets; F/TAF) for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), showing significant improvements in key measures of bone and renal safety parameters in a subset of study participants who switched from Truvada (emtricitabine 200 mg and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate

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Why We Still Need a National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Nearly four decades ago, thousands of young healthy gay and bi men suddenly became sick, withered and died. Before doctors and epidemiologists could agree on what the strange illness was, it was called “gay cancer” or Gay Related Immune Deficiency (GRID), later Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and now we know it’s caused by the

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Post A Selfie For This HIV Anti-Stigma Photo Campaign

Positively Aware‘s “A Day with HIV” anti-stigma photo campaign is taking place today. The campaign captures 24 hours in the lives of people affected by HIV stigma, which impacts everyone regardless of age, race, or status. The social media-driven campaign, now in its tenth year, is an opportunity for people to share a moment of

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‘Test and treat’ programmes are failing to reach people at highest risk of HIV transmission

Programmes to scale-up HIV testing and treatment in countries in sub-Saharan Africa may have had less impact on new HIV infections than hoped, partly because they haven’t paid enough attention to groups that contribute disproportionately to HIV acquisition and transmission, experts say. Greater efforts should be made to ensure that ‘universal test and treat’ programmes

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Finding HIV Resources in The Big Easy

This article is part of the Proud U series, a component of U=U & U, Pride Media’s year-long initiative to get the word out about HIV prevention, treatment, and testing, especially the groundbreaking news that people living with HIV who have undetectable viral loads can no longer transmit HIV. Bordering Lake Pontchartrain and built on

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Recommendations on changes to HIV criminalization don’t go far enough

Earlier this summer, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights released a report on Canada’s approach to criminalizing those who don’t disclose that they’re living with HIV to sexual partners. If the Standing Committee’s recommendations are adopted, they could diminish the harms experienced by women living with HIV under Canada’s current

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Dr Cole Stanley: helping patients with Opioid Use Disorder

When opioid overdoses and deaths reached stunning proportions in 2016 and 2017, and a public health crisis was declared, Dr Cole Stanley recognized that he and his colleagues might be able to better serve their patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). Having recently completed quality improvement training by the Specialist Services Committee’s Physician Quality Improvement

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HIV: Why There’s More To Your Status Than + Or –

Getting tested for STDs regularly is something responsible, sexually-active adults all must do. Although getting tested can be scary (especially for HIV), with advances in modern medicine, your HIV status is a little more complex than if you carry the virus (positive, or +) or if you don’t (negative, or -). Please talk to your

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How an SFU Prof Uses Statistics to Give Killer Whales a Chance

For Ruth Joy, data’s the key to smart decisions. Part of a series introducing innovative thinkers in BC’s post-secondary sector. The rooftop patio at 55 Water St. offers a lovely view of Coal Harbour – the SeaBus gliding across to North Vancouver, a monstrous white cruise ship preparing to chug back out to sea and,

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CAN Community Health’s Youth Initiative

SARASOTA, Fla. – August 8, 2019 – (Newswire.com) CAN Community Health, a leader in the infectious disease care and prevention, announces a safe space model for STD intervention for at-risk youth ages 13-21. The program provides youth with leadership and decision-making authority to promote sexual health testing directly to their peers. Many of the underserved

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The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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