PrEP

The UK Government has now made PrEP available for free across England – but many gay and bi men will still struggle to get it. Pilot projects have found the drug is highly effective in cutting HIV transmission. But the government refused to fund it for years. And now it has announced the funding just

The dramatic saga of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) features an early sense of helplessness and frustration in the face of a mysterious new disease, courage on the part of the afflicted, and the gradual accrual of groundbreaking scientific advances that have brought hope to a formerly desperate situation. This progress began with a series

This year, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. For the first in our video coverage series for 2020’s meeting, we’re revisiting a feature from 10 years ago on the future of HIV research, which is not so different from the

South African HIV advocates say there is an urgent need for the government to make PrEP available to everyone who needs it This comes after the announcement made earlier this week by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) about the non-efficacy of the HIV-prevention vaccine in the HVTN 702 clinical trial. Speaking

More gay and bisexual men are using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with increased confidence in the benefits of HIV treatment for prevention, according to a UNSW study. Significantly more gay and bisexual men are using the antiretroviral drug PrEP to prevent HIV infection, according to the latest report from the PrEPARE Project. The national online

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that PrEP among at-risk men increased 500 percent between 2014 to 2017. And those numbers are expected to rise following Gilead Sciences’ new commitment to donate up to 2.4 million bottles of Truvada to the CDC by 2030 (which amounts to 200,000 per year). The study is