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The 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2025) is taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, and virtually, ...
Semaglutide and related weight-loss medications, known as GLP-1 agonists, may slow biological ageing, reduce inflammation, improve cognitive function and gut health, and reduce alcohol use in people ...
Two new long-acting antiretroviral drugs, VH-184 and VH-499, have demonstrated similar potency to the best available antiretrovirals currently in use in phase 2a proof-of-concept trials, according to ...
Two broadly neutralising antibodies, teropavimab and zinlirvimab, might be good partners for lenacapavir (Sunlenca) in a long-acting HIV treatment regimen, according to study results presented ...
A mutation that can undermine two-drug treatment with dolutegravir and lamivudine persists for at least 12 years in the ‘archive’ of HIV locked up in the DNA of blood cells in one in three people ...
📢 With heavy hearts, we announce the proposed closure of our beloved charity, NAM aidsmap, this month. After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through ...
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 ...
A CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy called EBT-101 was safe and well tolerated but did not prevent viral rebound in three participants who stopped antiretroviral treatment in an early study, according ...
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) could in theory stop the majority of HIV transmissions that still happen, and in some places, including England, is doing so. Yet worldwide, it is still only being ...
A longer-acting formulation of cabotegravir may offer an HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and treatment option that could be administered once every four months, according to early study ...
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 ...
Almost half of people with HIV receiving care at one of Paris’s largest HIV clinics received antiretroviral regimens consisting of two drugs or intermittent treatment in 2022 and drug reduction ...