Star Observer, March 30, 2015
LIVING Positive Victoria has released a new fact-sheet on pre-exposure prophalyxis, commonly known as PrEP, which highlights its development in in Australia and aims to raise awareness of it a HIV prevention method.
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Downland factsheet (PDF) here
nam, 12 February 2015
A small pilot study using a daily dose of the antibiotic doxycycline as pre-exposure prophylaxis against sexually transmitted infections has found that a group of HIV-positive gay men taking doxycycline was more than 70% less likely to be infected with an STI than men given financial incentives to avoid STIs, a significant difference.
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New York Times, Feb 4, 2015
The surprising failure of a large clinical trial of HIV prevention methods in Africa — and the elaborate deceptions employed by the women in it — have opened an ethical debate about how to run such studies in poor countries and have already changed the design of some that are now underway.
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nam, 05 January 2015
The American public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published new recommendations on the HIV prevention interventions and advice that should be offered to people who are HIV positive.
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2015, 10:1 doi:10.1186/1747-597X-10-1 Objectives: To examine substance abuse treatment providers’ views on engaging clients in Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) care and research trials. Conclusions: Despite anticipated challenges, providers supported the introduction of PrEP in outpatient substance abuse treatment. Comprehensive training for...
nam, 04 November 2014
Australia and northern European countries are doing far better than North America at retaining people living with HIV in care and achieving viral suppression, according to a comprehensive survey of `treatment cascades` in high-income countries presented on Tuesday at the International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection in Glasgow.
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