HIV

Health-system pharmacists play a vital role in treating patients with HIV from the time they're admitted to their potential readmission, as well as through follow up after discharge.

In the lead up to National HIV Testing Day on June 27, 2016, Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS, a leading national public information response to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic, are teaming with health departments and local AIDS service organizations to offer free HIV testing and counseling about new prevention strategies.

Those who are HIV-negative but have risk factors for HIV can take pre-exposure prophylaxis with antiretroviral medications to protect themselves.

Greater education programming needed for patients at-risk for HIV infection.

A combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy could be effective in treating ovarian cancer.

“HIV isn’t the end of the world. HIV is actually just the beginning.”

PEPFAR saw a 33% decrease in funding for HIV/AIDS services.

Accuracy improved in point-of-care urine testing for the screening of tuberculosis in HIV patients.

Researchers found that 80% of HIV-positive patients had increased aortic inflammation after starting antiretroviral therapy.

An increasing number of patients with HIV are 50 or older, which comes with new challenges for health care providers.

Acute infection screening program for HIV shows promise.

Study hopes to overcome significant challenges in producing an HIV vaccine.

Patients who enroll in studies, including those for pre-exposure prophylaxis, may share their medication with friends and family who have health concerns of their own or the same diagnoses.

Researchers evaluate mechanism that prevents immune system from attacking tumors in melanoma.

Immunotherapy combination increased T cell activity in the blood and the patient went into remission.

Denmark is close to eradicating HIV through a prevention approach.

Association found between persistent immune activation, arterial inflammation, and plaque development in HIV

The critical beginning stages of HIV have been found to be less symptomatic than previously thought.

Are you an HIV expert or amateur?

Researchers evaluate why HIV-infected individuals have lower magnitude responses to flu vaccines.

As the name suggests, human immunodeficiency virus is all about lowered immunity.

CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system shows promise eliminating HIV.

The United States decreased the rate of HIV incidence and transmission, but not enough to meet the goals outlined in 2010.

Researchers found that 80% of HIV-positive patients had increased aortic inflammation after starting antiretroviral therapy.

The protein PSGL-1 can increase or inhibit the activity of T cells.