Roughly 61,000 Georgians live with HIV, the sexually transmitted virus (STI) that can lead to AIDS, and Atlanta ranks in the ...

A new study has found that rates of chlamydia and syphilis plummet among people prescribed doxycycline for sexually transmitted infection prevention in routine clinical care.

A new study has found that rates of chlamydia and syphilis plummet among people prescribed doxycycline for sexually ...

Matthew Kavanagh, the director of Georgetown University's Centre for Global Health Policy & Politics and an advisor to the United Nations explains on the progress and challenges in the ...

CD4 count (or T-cell count). Dyer M, Kerr C, McGowan JP, et al. Table 6.Prophylaxis for opportunistic Infections in adults With HIV. In: Comprehensive Primary Care for Adults With HIV [Internet].

The concept of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) became a major thing in the last three or four years, though it came onto the market about 10 years ago. This is probably the key for us to hopefully, ...

The Department of Health and Human Services allocated at least $73.9 million in grant funding to programs aimed at either mitigating the alleged harm racism causes minorities living with HIV or ...

For people at increased risk of HIV exposure, the guidelines emphasize the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis, available as daily oral medication or long-acting injectable options. In addition ...

China recently issued a prevention and control plan (2024-2030) to reduce new HIV infections, decrease related deaths and ensure that the HIV infection rate among the entire population will be ...

While the drug appears to be effective at preventing HIV infection, it does not cure an existing HIV infection or AIDS, according to researchers. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS − a disease in ...

HIV infections still happen despite a paradigm shift in prevention over the past decade: the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. In 2012, the FDA approved the first PrEP medication for ...

As modern medicine continues to progress, so do the health interventions that give people more options to protect themselves against HIV. According to Reyes, one of these alternatives is PrEP, which ...