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Important article shedding light on the unintended consequences of global HIV/AIDS strategies, urging renewed attention to measurement, diagnosis, and treatment to effectively address the ongoing burden of advanced HIV disease. https://lnkd.in/d7tmvBar #HIV #healthcareprofessionals #healthcaresystems #NeglectedDiseases
Advanced HIV as a Neglected Disease | NEJM
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PrEP is an effective way to prevent new HIV infections, but better strategies are needed to get it to the people who need it most. New research from Kaiser Permanente Division of Research showed that alerting primary care physicians to patients who might be at risk for HIV before a medical appointment significantly increased in referrals for PrEP. Dive into the full study to learn more: https://bit.ly/49RW5wE #HIV #PreventiveMedicine #PrimaryCare
Decision support trial reflects challenges of expanding HIV prevention
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Multimodal Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges in HIV Clinical Care The goal of this concept is to encourage the use of multimodal artificial intelligence to accelerate HIV diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
Multimodal Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges in HIV Clinical Care
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Advancements in HIV treatment now focus on long-term care and managing comorbidities. Professor Pozniak Anton discusses these changes and the benefits of Gilead Sciences' Biktarvy for safe, effective treatment in aging populations. Real-world studies show Biktarvy's long-term safety and minimal drug interactions. Read more about the future of HIV management. #HIV #HIVTreatment #ART #HealthcareInnovation #Biktarvy #GileadSciences
HIV treatment shifts focus to long-term care and comorbidity management
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From regulatory restrictions in 2021 to widespread accessibility in 2024, the Atomo HIV Self Test has played a vital role in advancing HIV testing rates in Australia. Increased access to self-testing empowers more individuals to take control of their health, supporting earlier detection and reducing the spread of HIV. Read more about how public health initiatives from the likes of National Association of People with HIV Australia, NSW Health and more, with support from the Australian Federal Government, have changed the HIV testing landscape in Australia over the past few years in this new article. Read more at the link below https://lnkd.in/g4FbKc9r
Empowering Communities: The Rise of HIV Testing in Public Health
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This could be a breakthrough in the fight against HIV. It is very interesting how inovation can shed so much light in the fight against the global terror HIV. Despite improvements, there is still a lag when it comes to equality and accessibility to these services especially with key and vulnerable populations. Innovations are only useful if distribution is done equally with everyone having access to it. Remember the most affected are those in remote areas with limited access to care and treatment. There is a tendency of the figures remaining stable if focus is only in rural areas. Another good factor that plays in the delivery of an inovation is acceptablility. It’s is very important to watch out, education and sensitization of most at risk populations can clear the road and encourage acceptance. While we Happy for the innovation; we are look forward to seeing how this will be implemented and distributed globally.
ADAP Advocacy Publishes Final Report for Patient Perspectives on Long-Acting Injectables
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"Pretty much all clients now are either texting or calling me on my cell phone. I have to be careful because clients now call me… for example, five o’clock on a Saturday". ▶ Responding to HIV Disruptions during the COVID-19 Pandemic 🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 Disruptions to HIV Services due to the COVID pandemic in the USA: a state-level stakeholder perspective (2024) After four years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, our research team published the important qualitative stories of people working to end the HIV epidemic amidst the uncertainty of the early COVID-19 pandemic. Stakeholders of the Michigan HIV/AIDS Council provided detailed evidence of how they responded in their roles, lives, and beyond. Their innovations are building the next generation of response for HIV during periods of disruption, including the next pandemic. #hiv #community #publication #journal #covid19 #state #work #publichealth 📖 Take a read:
Disruptions to HIV services due to the COVID pandemic in the USA: a state-level stakeholder perspective - BMC Health Services Research
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Multimodal Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges in HIV Clinical Care The goal of this concept is to encourage the use of multimodal artificial intelligence to accelerate HIV diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
Multimodal Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges in HIV Clinical Care
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One in four people with HIV not on treatment, according to new estimates Despite South Africa’s impressive HIV testing figures, a subset of people started taking antiretroviral therapy far later than is ideal for their health, shows new data from the leading mathematical model of HIV in the country. These new estimates present a synthesis of the best sources of data of HIV in the country as it factors in numbers from multiple sources. https://lnkd.in/eYZQfJFC #africa #health #healthcare #medicines #vaccines #publichealth #hiv
One in four people with HIV not on treatment, according to new estimates
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Professor & Vice Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Montefiore Health System. LinkedIn # 1 2020 Top Voice in Healthcare
HUGE Step in Erasing HIV For Good!! 7/5/24 I was a general surgery resident in the early 90s. HIV was a death sentence. There was a hospital floor dedicated to caring for dying HIV patients and we would often get consulted to place central access intravenous lines in order to administer antibiotics and nutrition. Most had horrible infections with Candida (fungus) of the esophagus (and thus couldn’t swallow), Pneumocystis pneumonias and/or Kaposi’s sarcoma and slowly - or not so slowly - wasting away into a miserable and painful death. Needless to say, we were not eager to stick needles into these patients and risk being stuck ourselves with a death sentence. Gratefully, monumental strides in the treatment and prevention of HIV and its infectious sequelae have been made since my days as a resident. Nowadays, HIV affects 38M people worldwide but 2/3rds of those live in Sub-Saharan Africa. In absolute numbers, South Africa (9.2 million), followed Tanzania (2.55million) and Mozambique (2.48 million) and Nigeria (2.45million) had the highest HIV/AIDS number of cases by the start of 2024. Adult HIV prevalence exceeds 15% in Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. In these countries, 4,000 teen girls acquire HIV WEEKLY. Multiple HIV vaccines have failed. In clinical trials, preventive drug use (Truvada), called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), can be 99% effective in stopping new HIV infections from sex. In the real world, however, that is not always the case. People don’t like - or forget taking their pills and thus protection wanes. Now, a twice yearly injection (lenacapavir) was tested in a large DBRCT in South Africa and Uganda against two standard oral PrEP medications in cisgender females. After 3 year follow up, NO CASES of HIV developed while 2% acquired new HIV in the other 2 cohorts. The trial was stopped early due to clear superiority. Next, the drug is going to be tested in higher risk cohorts - cisgender men, transgender men, transgender women and non-binary individuals who have sex with partners assigned male at birth. Should 100% effectiveness be replicated, we will be well on our way to eradicate HIV. The problem, as always, will be access to an expensive drug. The company is committed to distributing sufficient volume of the medication at a reasonable cost to Sub-Saharan Africa. Treatment (not prophylaxis) with lenacapavir is $42k in US. It is estimated that cost would have to be $54 in order for South Africans to afford it - that’s a HUGE financial gap. One small step for man, one HUGE step for mankind erasing the scourge of HIV #hiv #southafrica #lenacapavir #prevention
A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial — NPR
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