‘Game-Changing’ HIV Protection Jab Approved
Injection to prevent HIV to be offered to NHS patients in England and Wales for first time Source link
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First injection to stop HIV approved
Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images An injection to prevent HIV is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England and Wales for the first time, bringing the policy in line with Scotland. The long-acting shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to … Read more
Report shows ‘stark’ gender gap in HIV prevention across West Midlands
Women across the West Midlands are being disproportionately affected by gaps in HIV prevention, according to a new report. Data released ahead of a meeting which will explore the issue shows that while women accounted for 42% of new HIV diagnoses in the region, only 3% of women in the West Midlands are using prevention … Read more
South Africans fear spike in HIV infections as US aid cuts bite
Mayeni Jones BBC News, Johannesburg Reuters Gugu used to collect her antiretrovirals from a USAID-funded clinic in central Johannesburg. But when President Trump’s cuts to aid funding were announced earlier this year, she and thousands of other HIV-positive patients across South Africa suddenly faced an uncertain future. Gugu was lucky, the clinic where she got … Read more
Once-yearly jab for HIV protection passes first trial hurdle
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images An annual injection designed to guard against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has completed an important early safety trial, researchers report in The Lancet medical journal. Lenacapavir stops the virus from replicating inside cells. If future trials go well – now it has passed the first, Phase … Read more
Woman needed HIV test after GP used old genital swab
Science Photo Library A woman had to be tested for HIV after being given a vaginal examination with a swab already used on another patient, the health ombudsman has said. After the examination, at her GP surgery in Batley, Yorkshire, for a pre-existing health condition, the 40-year-old was told an old swab had been used … Read more
Infected blood scandal: Mum’s guilt over son’s HIV death
Martin White died at the age of 33 after being given blood products contaminated with HIV. Source link
People with HIV can be sperm and egg donors
UK laws have changed to keep up with the science that shows it can be safe. Source link
I lost my mum, dad and baby sister to HIV in infected blood scandal
In May 1983, Dr Spence Galbraith, the director of the UK’s Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, wrote to Dr Ian Field, the senior principal medical officer at the Department of Health, urging that all US blood products should be withdrawn from use until the risk of Aids was “clarified”. Source link