HIV/AIDS News

TORONTO — An adolescent medicine clinic more than quadrupled its HIV screening rate by offering point-of-care saliva testing, according to findings presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

We caught up with Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference to ask how he got “Hooked on ID.”

Food insecurity was associated with lower odds of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease among patients with HIV, although the presence of diabetes increased the odds of fibrosis in this population, according to data.

BOSTON — The HIV epidemic is “never going to end” unless physicians do two things, according to Donna E. Sweet, MD, MACP, AAHIVS.

ChatGPT could help reduce vaccine hesitancy and provide accurate information on sexually transmitted infections, according to two new studies.

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is getting a new name.

Teens in the United States have another treatment option for HIV.

Given my family history of MDs — my father, siblings and spouses of my siblings are all physicians — I actively tried to steer clear of medicine, but in the end, I just couldn’t help myself.

The CDC alerted clinicians in the United States about a rise in invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y bacteria that could present with symptoms not typical of meningitis.

HHS recommends ART for all children with HIV, regardless of clinical stage or CD4+ count, and rapid initiation of ART within days of diagnosis in all patients unless they have an opportunistic infection at the time of diagnosis.