By Robert Preidt and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters TUESDAY, Dec. 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The first injection drug to prevent HIV infection was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday. “Today’s approval adds an important tool in the effort to end the HIV epidemic by providing the first option to prevent … Read more
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — What do all the microbes living rent-free in your gut have to do with disease risk? Perhaps a lot. A groundbreaking analysis of decades-old stool and blood samples from the early AIDS epidemic suggests that men who had high levels of inflammation-causing bacteria … Read more
YouTube: “President Biden Delivers Remarks on World AIDS Day,” The White House. HIV.gov: “National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States 2022-2025,” “What Is Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States?” Gregorio Millett, vice president, American Foundation for AIDS Research. amfAR: “Ending the HIV Epidemic Database.” The Lancet, Public Health: “Homelessness, unstable housing, and risk … Read more
Commentary By Karl Schmid Earlier this year, GLAAD—in partnership with the Gilead COMPASS Initiative—conducted a survey titled, “The 2021 State of HIV Stigma Study.” Its task was to measure American attitudes towards HIV and people like myself living with HIV. The results of the study were disheartening, to say the very least: Americans, after 40 … Read more
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Some progress has been made in the U.S. fight against HIV, with new infections falling among white gay and bisexual men over the past decade. But their Black and Hispanic counterparts did not see that advance, health officials say. The continuing inequities show up … Read more
Dr Anthony Napier said there was no link between Aids and blood transfusions in a newspaper article. Source link
In December 1981, The Lancet medical journal reported the first Aids-related death in London. The disease claimed thousands of lives throughout the 1980s and 1990s, many of them young, gay men. Although the treatment of HIV has vastly improved, people who lived through the time remember the homophobia and stigma that was attached to the … Read more
“End disparities. End AIDS” is the theme of World AIDS Day 2021. (File) By Yuvraj Pokharna Being HIV positive as an orphan, female child was quite distressful in the past and it made lives miserable for many women in India. To help such girls secure a normal future, Special Home For Girls took an initiative … Read more
Babies who got antiretroviral drug therapy within hours of birth and stayed HIV-negative for months or years may offer a clue to treating newly diagnosed adults. Source link
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have identified a second HIV-positive person whose body might have naturally cleared the infection — sparking hope that studying such exceedingly rare events will help lead to a cure. The researchers cautioned that they cannot prove the woman has fully eradicated the … Read more