HIV

Nearly 21 million individuals with HIV had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in June 2017 compared to 685,000 HIV-positive patients in 2000.

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Top news of the day from across the health care landscape.

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Raltegravir (Isentress) is an integrase inhibitor for use in combination with other antiretroviral agents for HIV-1 in newborn infants weighing at least 2 kg.

Millions of individuals gain access to HIV treatment, but there are significant gaps that need to be addressed to end the epidemic.

Americans are getting tested and diagnosed with HIV sooner after infection, according to a recently-published CDC Vital Signs report.

Closing gaps in testing at-risk populations could increase HIV diagnoses.

Increased virologic failure and drug resistance following dolutegravir monotherapy prompt researchers to recommend against its use in patients with HIV.

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Juluca can replace ART in patients with HIV.

Juluca is indicated as a complete therapy for patients with HIV-1.

Juluca is indicated as a complete therapy for patients with HIV-1.

Many immunotherapy clinical trials exclude HIV-positive patients with cancer.

HIV-positive patients need to maintain healthy body weight, quit smoking, eat well, exercise regularly and treat hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia.

Health care stakeholders need to do a better job of adjusting testing and treatment to follow the HIV epidemic.

Identification of the last unknown protein in HIV could lead to a cure for the virus.

Gut microbiome alterations have been associated with frailty in older individuals with HIV.

"Gut microbiome" is becoming a buzzword in the health care community.

Human genome sequence variations can have a significant impact on the efficacy of HIV antiviral therapy.

HIV-positive children administered antiretroviral therapy have changes in their white matter brain tissue.

Pharmacists can expect to see considerably more information about the implications of pharmacogenetics for drug treatment in every disease state.

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Once-daily HIV treatment found to be highly effective and well-tolerated in treating antiretroviral-naïve HIV-1 patients.

How pharmacists can reduce polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing among the aging HIV population.