A man in southern California, dubbed the 'City of Hope patient', appears to be the latest person cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare mutation, bringing the ...

Over half of funding for anti-gender actors in Europe appears to come from within Europe itself, with significant amounts of money also flowing from the US and the Russian Federation, according to ...

Around six in ten people reported not having heard anything about HIV in the last six months. The most prominent difference amongst key demographics was that around two-thirds of both south Asian and ...

In 2019, South Africa adopted dolutegravir / lamivudine / tenofovir (TLD) as its preferred first-line regimen, replacing a regimen known as TEE or tenofovir / emtricitabine / efavirenz for most adults ...

A detailed analysis of results from the HPTN 083 PrEP study, which compared the efficacy of a two-monthly injection of the drug cabotegravir against daily oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and ...

The British HIV Association (BHIVA) has recommended that everyone living with HIV aged 40 and over should take a statin to reduce their risk of heart disease, even if they do not have raised ...

It’s rare in any branch of medicine that a trial of a new drug can report 100% efficacy, and a first in HIV science. But that’s what happened on Friday, when Gilead Sciences announced that no HIV ...

Media reports compared the outbreak to the early days of HIV, when gay men’s sexual behaviour was also linked to a stigmatised disease. However, there has been very little qualitative research ...

Professor Yvonne Bryson of the University of California Los Angeles described the new case at the conference and an accompanying press briefing. The middle-aged (post-menopausal) woman, a participant ...

Now, in what its authors describe as an “exploratory and descriptive study”, figures from different agencies have been pulled together to paint a picture of HIV in this vast country. The analysis, by ...

Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP), which was found to be highly effective at preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among gay men and transgender women, did not protect young ...

Two recent statements about taking the antibiotic doxycycline up to 72 hours after sex to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections, a prevention intervention known as doxyPEP, are notably ...