HIV/AIDS Topics Coverage of the 2017 Harm Reduction International Conference
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
HIVand Hepatitis.com coverage of the 2017 Harm Reduction International Conference, May 14-17, 2017, in Montreal.
5/31/17
PAS 2017: Many Doctors Wary of Providing PrEP for Young Patients
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Published on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Only about a third of family practice and pediatric providers said they would be likely to prescribe HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to adolescent patients, underlining the need to educate providers outside the HIV and sexually transmitted disease fields, according to a report at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting last week in San Francisco.
HIV PrEP Is Approved in Scotland
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- Category: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Published on Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) announced this week that it had accepted tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine (Truvada) for use within the Scottish National Health Service as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection.
Coverage of the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
HIVandHepatitis.com coverage of the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic infections (CROI 2017), February 13-16, 2017, in Seattle.
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4/16/17
BHIVA 2017: Large Fall in London HIV Diagnoses Is Due to Combination Prevention, Not Just PrEP
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
The number of new HIV diagnoses among gay men attending 5 key London clinics fell substantially during 2015 and 2016, Valerie Delpech of Public Health England reported at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference last week in Liverpool.
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