HIV

National HIV Testing Day, on June 27, promotes awareness of the importance of testing in the prevention and care of HIV infection.

A look at last week's top stories in the world of pharmacy.

A look at the top stories in pharmacy last week.

Patients with HIV-associated sensory neuropathy have a decrease in corneal nerve fiber density and an increase in corneal nerve tortuosity.

Meeting accreditation standards in the temperature-sensitive distribution process requires careful monitoring.

Investigational HIV combination drug may improve virologic suppression.

Consolidation and drug costs will play a key role in the future of specialty pharmacy.

Strategic, operational, and legal hurdles must be conquered before implementing this contract.

A number of hurdles in HIV, including preventative efforts, still need to be addressed.

Achieving linkage to care and viral suppression among patients with HIV improves overall wellbeing and prevents new infections.

Screening for drug interactions is a challenge when a patient with HIV presents with several prescriptions.

We asked Jeffrey R. Aeschlimann, PharmD, an infectious disease specialist who is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut's Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, to answer questions about drug interactions in patients with HIV.

Scientist map all mutations that help HIV evolve away from PGT151.

HIV clinical staff should ask questions about each patient’s relationships and sexual activity regularly and redundantly.

Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS, a leading national public information response to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic, are teaming up for the seventh straight year with health departments and local AIDS service organizations to offer free HIV testing and counseling about prevention strategies

Top articles of the week on Specialty Pharmacy Times.

Gel is 3 times more effective among women with Lactobacillus-dominate microbiome.

In 2015, 960,000 people were newly-infected with HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa.

HIV-positive women had higher rates of acquiring HPV and lower rates of clearing HIV infection.

Medications that suppress viral loads aid HIV-infected men who want children.

HIV/AIDS is the number 1 killer among women of reproductive age.

Men who have sex with men had the highest number of HIV diagnoses.

A look at last week's top stories in the world of pharmacy.

The drug is indicated as a combination treatment of HIV and for pre-exposure prophylaxis.

FDA approves first generic version of emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Truvada).