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Nearly three years after injectable HIV treatments were approved by Health Canada, a B.C. advocacy group is calling for expanded access to the treatment for people in the province.  But researchers say not everyone living with HIV is eligible for the injection, given the risk of developing drug resistancy to other HIV treatments.  While there is no cure for HIV, a sexually transmitted infection that breaks down the body's ability to fight infection and disease, medication is used to control the progression of the virus.  Cabenuva, the injectable treatment, is the only long-lasting drug option for HIV patients in Canada aside from a daily pill option.  The drug is administered monthly with the help of a patient's health-care provider.  AIDS Vancouver is calling on the province and the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) to expand the treatment's availability to all people living with HIV, but according to the ...

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1 Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA; 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 3 Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA Correspondence: Emily Frey, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, 505 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA, Tel +1 212 746 4749, Fax +1 212 746 4609, Email [email protected] Abstract: With improved access to antiretroviral therapy throughout the world, people are aging with HIV, and a large portion of the global population of people with HIV (PWH) is now age 50 or older. Older PWH experience more comorbidities, aging-related syndromes, mental health challenges, and difficulties accessing fundamental needs than the population of older adults without HIV. As a result, ensuring that older PWH are receiving comprehensive healthcare can often be overwhelming for both PWH and the providers. Although there is a...

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Arkansas pharmacists will be able to prescribe pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP and PEP, to prevent HIV, thanks to a new law signed by Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, reports ABC affiliate KAIT8.com. Sponsored by Representative Aaron Pilkington (R–Ark.), Act 314 will allow pharmacists to prescribe PrEP and PEP just as physicians do. The law will help the Arkansas Department of Health achieve its five-year goal of ending the HIV epidemic in the state, defined as decreasing new HIV cases by 75% by 2025. "Under a statewide protocol, a pharmacist may initiate therapy and administer or dispense, or both, drugs that include Naloxone, nicotine replacement therapy products, oral contraceptives, HIV preexposure prophylaxis, and HIV postexposure prophylaxis," according to the law. In 2020, there were 6,058 people living with HIV in Arkansas and 242 new HIV diagnoses, according to AIDSVu.org, which offers interactive maps and infographics based on U....

Children whose mothers took antiretroviral medication for HIV while pregnant may have higher risks for developmental delays at age 5, according to new research. Nonetheless, researchers said it's important for women with HIV to take antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy to prevent HIV transmission to their fetus. Women who have HIV and know it should start on antiretroviral therapy in case they do become pregnant, the authors said. Researchers for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study, including Tzy-Jyun Yao of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the findings underscore the need to monitor the neurodevelopment of children whose mothers took antiretrovirals during pregnancy. They also called for a further look at the timing of a fetus's first exposure to antiretrovirals in the womb. Among other findings, the risk of developmental delays was even higher for children whose mothers' regimens contained the drug atazanavir, compared to regimens that did not....

CDC warns America is in midst of an 'STI epidemic' as new figures show a record 2.5MILLION people caught chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2021 Over 2.5Mn cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported in 2021 Doxycycline, an antibiotic introduced 56 years ago, could prevent infections  The record highs of STD diagnoses is believed to be linked to the pandemic  By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Updated: 21:52 BST, 11 April 2023 Sexually transmitted infections (STI) are on the rise across the US and show 'no signs of slowing,' official data shows. There were 2.53million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), up almost 6 percent from the figure in 2020 and a 7 percent increase on 2017. While certain STIs were still not as high in 2021 and in pre-pandem...

Andrew Siderowf, MD In a newly published cross-sectional study in The Lancet Neurology, sponsored by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) , use of an alpha-synuclein seed amplification assay (αSyn-SAA) technique showed high diagnostic accuracy of Parkinson disease (PD), distinguished molecular subtypes, and detected the disease before primary symptoms. 1 In total, data on αSyn-SAA was collected from 1123 participants from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) cohort, including patients with a diagnosis of PD and at-risk patients with gene variants (GBA and LRRK2) linked to the disease. In the large-scale analysis, αSyn-SAA was shown to differentiate PD from controls with a sensitivity of 88% and specificity of 96%. "I think that the ability to diagnose people based on underlying biology rather than clinical syndrome is going to have a major effect on current and ongoing research. Patients in clinical trials can be slotted into the ...

Bronchitis occurs when the airways (trachea and bronchi) that carry oxygen to the lungs become inflamed and filled with mucus. You get a persistent cough as your body attempts to expel the mucus. As well a feeling of shortness of breath, and wheezing, are among other bronchitis symptoms normally experienced.  Bronchitis has two main types:  Acute Bronchitis : Acute bronchitis is usually caused by a viral infection and clears up in a few weeks. It causes a dry cough with mucus, and symptoms like shortness of breath, wheezing, and chest tightness. Chronic Bronchitis : Chronic bronchitis closely means COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). The inflamed bronchi creates a lot of Lukas. This causes coughing and difficulties getting air into and out of the lungs. The right treatment will help reduce your symptoms, but chronic bronchitis is a long-term condition that either returns or never goes away completely. Bronchitis treatment opt...

In the early 1980s, City of Hope patient Paul Edmonds went to a bar in San Francisco regularly after work, and often cried. Edmonds recalled reading the obituaries of many friends in the weekly Bay Area Reporter. At that time, people didn't know what their friends were dying from; many called AIDS the "gay cancer." In 1984, HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS. "People were dying within a few years of finding out they were positive," Edmonds said. "A dark cloud was over the city." So, when Edmonds was diagnosed in 1988 with not just HIV, but full-blown AIDS, he felt he had been given a death sentence.  For more than 30 years, Edmonds lived with HIV, taking different therapies to control the virus as much as possible. He never imagined a day would come when he would live without HIV. But City of Hope changed that. Paul Edmonds shares his story with ABC's "Nightline." In July 2022, City of Hope an...