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Today is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day to end the stigma and recognize the disproportionate and ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS on gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

The U.S. government is offering its fifth round of free at-home tests for COVID-19, with four tests per household available at COVIDTests.gov as of Monday, Sept. 25.

A spacecraft being used to manufacture a crystalized version of the HIV drug ritonavir in low Earth orbit has been denied reentry and permission to land in the United States, Healio confirmed.

Adding doxycycline to single-dose benzathine penicillin G — the preferred treatment for early syphilis — achieved higher serologic responses in people with HIV than benzathine penicillin G, researchers found.

The “unrealistic” pricing of long-acting injectable PrEP hinders its use where HIV control budgets are stretched, according to researchers, who found that event-driven oral PrEP is a more cost-effective option for fixed budgets.

Clinicians should prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis to individuals at high risk for HIV to prevent infection with the virus, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force declared in a final recommendation statement.

Health care workers who picked their nose were three times as likely to acquire SARS-CoV-2 as those who did not, according to recent study results.

In the wake of the FDA approval of the first over-the-counter birth control pill, two experts argued that the time has come to make another prevention medication available without a prescription.

The burden of age-related comorbidities was greater in women compared with men, particularly among those with HIV, a recent study in JAMA Network Open found.