Half of HIV Positive Gay and Bisexual Men Are Untreated
Two new studies indicate differences in treatment among racial groups.
Letting my ‘guard’ down
Shortly before my 28th birthday, I discovered that a friend of mine was HIV positive. He wasn’t a very close friend, but I knew him quite well and it came as a shock to me because he was well educated, intelligent and financially established in the world, and I believed that people like him did not get HIV. I couldn’t understand how someone like that could be “dumb” enough to have unprotected sex. In the nineties almost every gay movie I could get my hands on was about gay men struggling with HIV or AIDS. How could he not have known to wear a condom? It was constantly drummed into us.
Long acting HIV drugs to be developed
HIV drugs which only need to be taken once a month are to be developed at the University of Liverpool in a bid to overcome the problem of ‘pill fatigue’.
Gene Therapy May Hold Key to HIV Cure, If Government Allows It
Using patients’ genetic material to help attack their particular version of HIV.
New Single-Tablet Regimen: FDA Approves Triumeq
ViiV Healthcare’s single-tablet regimen Triumeq won Food and Drug Administration approval on August 22, 2014. Triumeq is the first FDA-approved single-tablet regimen (STR) that does not contain tenofovir (Viread), a widely used antiretroviral drug linked with bone and kidney problems in some susceptible HIV-positive individuals.
STUDY: HIV Drug Resistance Linked to Long Term Use of Certain Antiretrovirals
A meta-analysis of HIV patients in China shows strong relationship between didanosine-based treatments and increase in drug resistance.
WHO: HOMOSEXUALITY-RELATED ‘DISORDERS’ SHOULD BE DROPPED
A World Health Organisation (WHO) working group has called for the scrapping of so-called “homosexuality-related psychological disorders”.
South Africa faces HIV funding test with shift in PEPFAR money
With PEPFAR planning to shift about $100 million in HIV funding from South Africa to poorer countries, the New York Times reports, the country will face stern challenges in maintaining its AIDS effort.