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BC Gov expanding coverage for HIV pre-exposure throughout the province

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The Health Ministry is celebrating what they are calling six-months of success in preventing new HIV infections throughout BC. At the start of this year, the government expanded coverage for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis(pep), which has been prescribed to over two-thousand residents. In celebration of this, the province and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS […]

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Implants for Delivery of Antiretroviral Drugs for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

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Strategies to reduce new HIV infections span multifaceted efforts, including safe-sex counseling, voluntary medical male circumcision, treatment as prevention, and pre- (PrEP) and postexposure prophylaxis. PrEP entails the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs prophylactically by HIV-negative individuals at risk of infection to thwart acquisition of the virus. In 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration

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‘Game-changer’ HIV prevention drug could be leading to lower condom use: studies

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Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is a “game-changer” when it comes to preventing HIV infections, doctors say. But some new studies are suggesting that people who take it use condoms less often – increasing their risk of contracting other sexually-transmitted infections. PrEP is a combination of two drugs, initially used to treat HIV. But

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As death toll from HIV/AIDS wanes, new models for primary care emerge from decades of HIV experience

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When celebrated author and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra visited Palm Springs in early February, he had an epiphany. Invited to be a featured speaker in the Palm Springs Speaks lecture series, he visited Desert AIDS Project before his event that evening. While touring the campus Chopra realized he was seeing the real-life manifestation of

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HIV prevention project a success, based on early results: Health minister

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Just over 2,000 B.C. residents have taken medication to prevent HIV in the six months since it became publicly funded, Health Minister Adrian Dix says. The treatment is taken either before or after high-risk sex and is formally called pre- or post-exposure prophylaxis. The oral medication, Truvada, or an approved generic equivalent, can be prescribed

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