Now, pop a pill to prevent HIV?
12 years, 8 months ago

Now, pop a pill to prevent HIV?

Firstpost  

We seem to be a step closer to eradicating HIV with the United States’ Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approving a drug to be used in healthy people as a preventive measure for the infection. The drug panel feels that the pills, if taken daily, by those who are highly active sexually will stall HIV infection. However, the FDA approval has brought dissent from certain groups who disapprove of the use of Truvada in healthy people as the drug causes bone thinning and may also lead to kidney problems later. They feel that the FDA should go on an overdrive, instead, to promote safe sex practices as a means to prevent HIV infection.

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Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning'
8 months, 1 week ago

Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning'

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The prospect of a twice-a-year …

Authorities warn that fake HIV drugs are found in Kenya despite a crackdown on counterfeits
1 year, 4 months ago

Authorities warn that fake HIV drugs are found in Kenya despite a crackdown on counterfeits

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kenyan authorities issued a warning …

A new injection to prevent HIV, rather than pills, is a game changer, scientists say
3 years, 3 months ago

A new injection to prevent HIV, rather than pills, is a game changer, scientists say

NPR  

A new injection to prevent HIV, rather than pills, is a game changer, scientists say Enlarge this image toggle caption ViiV Healthcare ViiV Healthcare A long-awaited development to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week, and scientists are calling it a game-changer. The drug, called Apretude but also …

Merck’s COVID-19 pill narrowly wins FDA panel’s support
3 years, 4 months ago

Merck’s COVID-19 pill narrowly wins FDA panel’s support

LA Times  

An FDA panel voted 13 to 10 to recommend authorization of Merck’s experimental COVID-19 drug, molnupiravir, on Tuesday — with many caveats. Harvard infectious disease specialist Dr. Lindsey R. Baden, who chairs the FDA advisory committee, called molnupiravir’s apparent effectiveness “wobbly.” He said his own decision to recommend that the FDA grant emergency-use authorization was “incredibly difficult” in light of …

Everything we know about Merck Covid pill as company asks FDA for approval
3 years, 5 months ago

Everything we know about Merck Covid pill as company asks FDA for approval

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Pharmaceutical company Merck & …

First long-acting HIV treatment Cabenuva approved by FDA as monthly shots
4 years, 2 months ago

First long-acting HIV treatment Cabenuva approved by FDA as monthly shots

Firstpost  

ViiV said the shot combo would cost $5,940 for an initial, higher dose and $3,960 per month afterward. US regulators have approved the first long-acting drug combo for HIV, monthly shots that can replace the daily pills now used to control infection with the AIDS virus. “That will enhance quality of life” to need treatment just once a month, said …

Study finds long-acting shot helps women avoid HIV infection
4 years, 4 months ago

Study finds long-acting shot helps women avoid HIV infection

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Researchers are stopping a study early after finding that a shot of …

Study finds long-acting shot helps women avoid HIV infection
4 years, 4 months ago

Study finds long-acting shot helps women avoid HIV infection

LA Times  

A nurse talks to an HIV-positive patient at a mobile clinic in South Africa. A study finds that a shot every two months of the experimental medicine cabotegravir worked better than daily Truvada pills to prevent uninfected women from catching HIV. A shot every two months of the experimental medicine cabotegravir is more effective than daily Truvada pills at preventing …

Injection prevents women from contracting HIV, study finds
4 years, 4 months ago

Injection prevents women from contracting HIV, study finds

Al Jazeera  

Results so far suggest that the injectable drug cabotegravir was 89 percent more effective than pills at preventing HIV infection. Researchers are stopping a study early after finding that a shot of an experimental medicine every two months worked better than daily pills to help prevent women from contracting HIV from an infected sexual partner. “I don’t think we can …

Experimental Drug Treatment May Have Rid Man Of HIV, Doctors Say
4 years, 8 months ago

Experimental Drug Treatment May Have Rid Man Of HIV, Doctors Say

Huff Post  

If a Brazilian man’s case is confirmed, it would be the first time HIV has been eliminated in an adult without a bone marrow or stem cell transplant. “I’m very moved because it’s something that millions of people want,” said the 35-year-old man, whose spoke to The Associated Press on condition that his name not be published. “I’m the living …

‘Game-changer’ implant that could prevent HIV infection for a year moves step closer to reality
5 years, 8 months ago

‘Game-changer’ implant that could prevent HIV infection for a year moves step closer to reality

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In what could eventually become a milestone for HIV prevention, very …

PrEP: Use of HIV prevention pill rises 500%, CDC says
5 years, 8 months ago

PrEP: Use of HIV prevention pill rises 500%, CDC says

CNN  

CNN — Use of a daily pill to prevent HIV infection rose almost 500% from 2014 to 2017, according to new research published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers noted that there are “structural barriers associated with race that influence access to high quality care” and recommended targeted efforts to increase PrEP use among minorities. …

HIV-negative people who are at risk of an infection should take PrEP, experts say
5 years, 9 months ago

HIV-negative people who are at risk of an infection should take PrEP, experts say

CNN  

CNN — A simple pill taken every day, known as “pre-exposure prophylaxis” or PrEP, can help prevent an infection with HIV. Doctors should offer PrEP to people at high risk of acquiring HIV, according to a new US Preventive Services Task Force statement published Tuesday. New initiative to reduce HIV infections Currently, about 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV, …

Daily HIV prevention pill urged for healthy people at risk
5 years, 9 months ago

Daily HIV prevention pill urged for healthy people at risk

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Doctors should offer a daily HIV prevention pill to healthy people who are at high risk of getting infected with the virus, an influential health care panel recommended Tuesday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reiterated its long-standing advice that everyone ages 15 to 65 — and anyone who’s pregnant — should be regularly screened, a step to …

Daily HIV prevention pill urged for healthy people at high risk of infection
5 years, 9 months ago

Daily HIV prevention pill urged for healthy people at high risk of infection

LA Times  

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is urging doctors to offer Truvada to their healthy patients who are at high risk of becoming infected with HIV. Doctors should offer a daily HIV prevention pill to healthy people who are at high risk of getting infected with the virus, an influential healthcare panel recommended Tuesday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force …

Expert Panel Recommends Wider Use Of Daily Pill To Prevent HIV Infections
5 years, 9 months ago

Expert Panel Recommends Wider Use Of Daily Pill To Prevent HIV Infections

NPR  

Expert Panel Recommends Wider Use Of Daily Pill To Prevent HIV Infections Enlarge this image toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has a new recommendation aimed at preventing HIV infections and AIDS. The influential panel's guidance says people at high risk of being infected with HIV should be offered preventive antiretroviral medications …

Up to 200,000 uninsured people may soon have access to HIV prevention medication
5 years, 10 months ago

Up to 200,000 uninsured people may soon have access to HIV prevention medication

CNN  

CNN — Hundreds of thousands of uninsured people may soon have access to medication meant to curb the HIV epidemic. President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced on Twitter that the administration has worked with biotechnology company Gilead to secure a donation of an HIV prevention drug. Great news today: My Administration just secured a …

Truvada: The HIV prevention drug causing an epidemic of stigma
6 years, 4 months ago

Truvada: The HIV prevention drug causing an epidemic of stigma

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. According to the CDC, taking the pill consistently and …

Rising Cost Of PrEP To Prevent HIV Infection Pushes It Out Of Reach For Many
6 years, 9 months ago

Rising Cost Of PrEP To Prevent HIV Infection Pushes It Out Of Reach For Many

NPR  

Rising Cost Of PrEP To Prevent HIV Infection Pushes It Out Of Reach For Many Enlarge this image toggle caption Paul Sakuma/AP Paul Sakuma/AP Public health officials are expanding efforts to get the HIV prevention pill into the hands of those at risk, in a nationwide effort to curb infections. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that …

Everything You Need To Know About HIV Prevention Drug PrEP
6 years, 9 months ago

Everything You Need To Know About HIV Prevention Drug PrEP

Huff Post  

Getty Images If you're curious about PrEP drug Truvada, which reduces the likelihood of contracting HIV, talk to someone who is already taking it. For those who don’t know anyone on PrEP, he recommended using a social network like Facebook to connect with others who might be willing to give you some tips. Some providers might even still have misconceptions …

Prescribe HIV prevention pill to risk groups, Dutch Health Council advises
7 years ago

Prescribe HIV prevention pill to risk groups, Dutch Health Council advises

NL Times  

The Dutch Health Council wants the government to make HIV prevention pill Prep available to population groups that are at higher risk of being infected by the virus, such as homosexual men. According to the Health Council, the pill is medically- and cost effective and should be considered "essential care" for high risk groups, NOS reports. A number of organizations, …

New HIV drug could target drug-resistant strains
7 years, 10 months ago

New HIV drug could target drug-resistant strains

Daily Mail  

A promising HIV drug has succeeded in a late-stage trial - paving the way to a low intensity treatment that could target drug-resistant strains. Gilead Sciences Inc, the makers of the current best-selling HIV treatment Truvada, announced on Tuesday that a new drug called bictegravir was successful in four phase 3 studies. Gilead Sciences Inc's promising HIV drug has succeeded …

Promising results in trial of HIV pill PrEP among Australian gay community
9 years, 6 months ago

Promising results in trial of HIV pill PrEP among Australian gay community

ABC  

A new pill designed to block HIV infections is being described as a "game changer" by some of the 450 gay men taking part in the Australian trials of the drug. Dr Grant has conducted PrEP trials in San Francisco and said the pill was having a dramatic impact on reducing HIV infections there. "People started using it in the …

Truvada Protected 100 Percent Of Study Participants From HIV
9 years, 6 months ago

Truvada Protected 100 Percent Of Study Participants From HIV

Huff Post  

Justin Sullivan via Getty Images A study of 657 people taking PrEP, the daily pill that can prevent HIV, has found that not a single person contracted the potentially deadly virus over two and a half years of observation. "What our study shows very reassuringly is that PrEP works in a real world setting," said lead researcher Dr. Jonathan Volk …

Truvada, a pill to fight HIV, stirs controversy among gays
10 years, 3 months ago

Truvada, a pill to fight HIV, stirs controversy among gays

LA Times  

Ken Almanza, an AIDS Project Los Angeles health and wellness outreach worker and a Truvada user, hopes to educate others interested in taking the pill to prevent HIV. “We’re big fans in giving people options to achieve their goals, with no judgment.” Public health officials throughout the U.S. have already made the approach a key part of their official HIV …

I beat my fear of HIV: How a miracle drug changed my life as a gay man
10 years, 5 months ago

I beat my fear of HIV: How a miracle drug changed my life as a gay man

Salon  

As a gay man who came of age at the tail end of the AIDS crisis — at age 31, I’m young enough to have missed living through it, yet old enough not to have escaped its ethos — contracting HIV has long been one of my biggest fears. While a number of studies have shown Truvada use does not …

San Francisco Politician Goes Public With His Choice To Take Anti-HIV Drug
10 years, 6 months ago

San Francisco Politician Goes Public With His Choice To Take Anti-HIV Drug

NPR  

San Francisco Politician Goes Public With His Choice To Take Anti-HIV Drug Enlarge this image toggle caption Lisa Aliferis/KQED Lisa Aliferis/KQED In an effort to combat stigma that has arisen around a treatment that prevents HIV, a San Francisco elected official announced publicly Wednesday that he is taking the medicine. Sponsor Message In an interview at Wiener's office in San …

Cancer drug finds HIV hidden in the body
12 years, 6 months ago

Cancer drug finds HIV hidden in the body

China Daily  

Get Flash Player Download SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. ​​SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: People infected with the human immunodeficiency virus must take anti-retroviral drugs for the rest of their lives to keep HIV under control. And that might then allow us to develop ways to get rid of the leftover virus in people that are …

Cancer drug finds HIV hidden in the body
12 years, 6 months ago

Cancer drug finds HIV hidden in the body

China Daily  

Get Flash Player Download SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. ​​SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: People infected with the human immunodeficiency virus must take anti-retroviral drugs for the rest of their lives to keep HIV under control. And that might then allow us to develop ways to get rid of the leftover virus in people that are …

FDA approves drug to reduce HIV risk
12 years, 8 months ago

FDA approves drug to reduce HIV risk

LA Times  

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration approved a drug Monday that could dramatically reduce the risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, among high-risk groups. What we do have is an increasingly growing tool kit.” Many HIV and AIDS researchers and activists say the pill is a promising way to reduce new infections, which have remained stubbornly …

US approves first-ever pill to help fight HIV
12 years, 8 months ago

US approves first-ever pill to help fight HIV

Al Jazeera  

The preventative measure for people at high risk of HIV could help slow the spread of the virus. The first-ever daily pill to help prevent the spread of HIV has been approved by US regulators – a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus believed to cause AIDS. The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Gilead Sciences’ …

Truvada And At-Home Test Join Fight Against HIV
12 years, 10 months ago

Truvada And At-Home Test Join Fight Against HIV

NPR  

Truvada And At-Home Test Join Fight Against HIV Truvada is a pill that's already used to treat people with HIV. STEIN: And that would be a very serious development if that happened, and that's a real concern because as you pointed out earlier, it's hard to get people to take the drug properly, to take it every day like you're …

US considers approving drug to prevent HIV
12 years, 10 months ago

US considers approving drug to prevent HIV

China Daily  

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Currently, in the United States, the drug is only approved for use as a treatment for people already infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Now a government advisory committee says Truvada should become the first drug approved for use to prevent HIV. MITCHELL WARREN: "If you are at risk of …

AIDS fight enters new phase with prevention pill
12 years, 10 months ago

AIDS fight enters new phase with prevention pill

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Condoms and other safe-sex practices have accomplished only so much. In the generation-long fight against AIDS, “it’s the first time we have talked about a medication for prevention of HIV,” said Dr. Lisa Sterman of Francisco, who treats HIV-positive patients. “With this recommendation, we’re nearing a watershed moment in our fight against HIV,” said James Loduca, a spokesman …

FDA Gets Advice To Approve First Pill To Cut HIV Infections
12 years, 10 months ago

FDA Gets Advice To Approve First Pill To Cut HIV Infections

NPR  

FDA Gets Advice To Approve First Pill To Cut HIV Infections toggle caption Paul Sakuma/AP In what could mark a watershed in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a panel of experts recommended that the Food and Drug Administration give a green light to a pill that can cut the risk of infections. It's already approved as a treatment for HIV, but …

New studies on HIV treatment as prevention
12 years, 11 months ago

New studies on HIV treatment as prevention

China Daily  

Recent studies have shown that antiretroviral drugs can be used not only to treat HIV, but also to prevent infection in the first place. Now, the western US state of California is launching new studies to determine PrEP's effectiveness beyond clinical trials and out in the real world. Daily dose However, Warren said pre-exposure prophylaxis is only effective if people …

Americans turn to AIDS drugs to prevent HIV infection
13 years, 8 months ago

Americans turn to AIDS drugs to prevent HIV infection

China Daily  

New research in Africa confirms that a once-a-day pill, used to treat patients infected with the virus which causes AIDS, also works to prevent HIV infection in healthy people. Noted AIDS researcher Dr. Anthony Fauci says it's essential that this emergency therapy be applied quickly to stop HIV infection. We need a lot of options to prevent new HIV infections …

News break: Pre-exposure prevention of HIV works. But.
14 years, 4 months ago

News break: Pre-exposure prevention of HIV works. But.

Wired  

* *There's huge news today in the results of a major drug trial for HIV prevention, but the news comes balanced with significant cautions and caveats. For the first time, researchers have shown that if men who are not infected with HIV take routine doses of AIDS treatment drugs, they can markedly reduce their risk of becoming infected. Writing in …

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