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health: Adherence Issues

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. Some of the media discussion on Truvada adherence (taking one pill a day consistently) vs. effectiveness for HIV prevention is confusing, because in this study adherence was measured in different ways. Drug-level testing was clearly the gold standard - while other methods, like asking people how often they took the pills, or counting pills returned, were often confusing, and much less reliable. Why did so many of the study participants not take the Truvada? But the bottom lin...

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health: Increase In HIV Virus Infection Rates

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. Increase In HIV Virus Infection Rates. Reported in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. These findings indicate that the public health approach towards HIV counselling and education needs to be reconsidered, Prof. Grossman says. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Powered by IP2Location.com. View my complete profile. New HIV vaccine approach targets desirable immune . Study Of HIV Increase In Pakistan Could Benefit Ot. Changing the educational approach.

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health: Porn, HIV And Condoms; The Debate Rages On As Actor Tests Postive

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. Porn, HIV And Condoms; The Debate Rages On As Actor Tests Postive. In an already controversial industry, the recent uncovering of a porn actor's positive HIV. Test has again sparked the debate over mandatory condom use in X-rated productions. Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS. Healthcare Foundation in Los Angeles comments:. Christian Mann, general manger of Evil Angel Productions and unpaid Free Speech Coalition board member explains:. This controversy is nothing new h...

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health: HIV PrEP Explained: Critical Prevention Opportunity

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. HIV PrEP Explained: Critical Prevention Opportunity. In late 2010 the New England Journal of Medicine. Published an authoritative report of a trial of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) in over 2,000 HIV-negative but high-risk gay men, showing that one pill a day of the approved HIV medicine Truvada could prevent HIV infection.[1] Science. It gets better. The other 3 participants who became HIV infected during the trial had very low levels of the active forms of the drugs, j...

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health: September 2011

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. New HIV vaccine approach targets desirable immune cells. DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke University Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have demonstrated an approach to HIV vaccine design that uses an altered form of HIV's outer coating or envelope protein. The study was published in the Sept. 1 issue of PLoS Pathogens. The researchers found that the sugars on the natural HIV envelope prevented the envelope from binding to the im...

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health: PrEP's Big Advantage with Test-and-Treat

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. PrEP's Big Advantage with Test-and-Treat. With effective PrEP, the problem of early HIV diagnosis goes away. If the high-risk individual never gets infected in the first place, a whole branch of the epidemic tree can be cut off. And as we explained above, the effectiveness of Truvada PrEP in gay men has been close to 100% so far, when it has been used properly (one pill a day, taken consistently). We need combination HIV prevention; no one size fits all. But we now know t...

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health: Symptom-Based Screening May Improve Detection Of HIV In High-Risk Men

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. Symptom-Based Screening May Improve Detection Of HIV In High-Risk Men. When flu-like symptoms develop may offer a cost-effective alternative for early detection of HIV infection in men who have sex with men (MSM), reports a study in the journal AIDS. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. Symptom-Based Testing Cost-Effectively Detects More Cases of HIV. A combination approach including both antibody and viral load testing.

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health: New Factor In HIV Infection Uncovered

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. New Factor In HIV Infection Uncovered. A George Mason University researcher team has revealed the specific process by which the HIV. Virus infects healthy T cells - a process previously unknown. The principal investigator, HIV researcher Yuntao Wu, says he hopes this breakthrough will start a new line on inquiry into how researchers can use this knowledge to create drugs that could limit or halt HIV infection. In 2008, which described the basic process of how HIV infects T ce...

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health: Changing the educational approach

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Saturday, September 3, 2011. Changing the educational approach. Clearly, Prof. Grossman warns, the need to establish the values of safe sex within at-risk populations is as imperative as it has ever been. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Powered by IP2Location.com. View my complete profile. New HIV vaccine approach targets desirable immune . Study Of HIV Increase In Pakistan Could Benefit Ot. Changing the educational approach. Increase In HIV Virus Infection Rates. New Factor In HIV Infection Uncovered.