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 […]
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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
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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
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Earlier this month, pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences announced that it will donate enough HIV prevention drug Truvada to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to benefit 200,000 people at risk for HIV. While news of the announcement was met positively, it also came ahead of some other negative headlines surrounding the drugmaker, coupled
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There is a generation gap when it comes to knowing and understanding HIV prevention. Young gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (YGBM) in BC are less likely to be aware of some HIV prevention and treatment options compared to older men, according to a recently published BC-CfE study.
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When the United Nations Commission on Human Rights declared last year that Venezuela was in “a downward spiral with no end in sight,” Marco Torrealba knew exactly what that meant. A former corporate journalist, Torrealba fled Venezuela in 2015 leaving behind his family, friends, and career. “I grew up in a very poor area in
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The largest treatment-as-prevention study for gay and bisexual men confirms that people on antiretroviral therapy with undetectable viral load do not transmit HIV. Results from the PARTNER2 study, which enrolled nearly 1,000 mixed-status gay male couples in 14 European countries, saw no genetically linked HIV transmissions when the positive partner was on effective treatment. “PARTNER2
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Thousands of people at the highest risk of acquiring HIV in B.C. are benefiting after a successful year since government expanded coverage for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). “Since expanding access to PrEP on Jan. 1, 2018, nearly 3,300 people have been prescribed the potentially life-saving medications. It is positive to see
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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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