Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

SEATTLE — Two studies presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic infections demonstrated high adherence levels and acceptability of long-acting, injectable PrEP for HIV prevention among varying groups of people.

Demolishing social and structural barriers to access to HIV and STI prevention in transgender adolescents of color can come through gender affirmation, according to a presentation of a study at IDWeek.

Adults who initiated HIV PrEP for the first time were six times more likely to be dispensed emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide than emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, according to study results presented at IDWeek.

PHILADELPHIA — Outpatient therapies for COVID-19 are largely being limited by evolving variants’ ability to evade effectiveness, and remaining therapies require careful management, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence 2022.

An estimated 1.2 million people in the United States live with HIV, of whom 13% do not know their status. Although HIV incidence declined overall by 9% in 2019, there were still 36,801 new HIV diagnoses.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis with Evusheld, combined with aggressive outpatient treatment, may reduce COVID-19 severity in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory disease on B-cell depletion, according to a letter published in RMB Open.

Since the first report of AIDS more than 40 years ago, the fight to end the pandemic has seen successes and failures.

This month’s cover story features an illustrious faculty — Christina Charles-Schoeman, MD, MS; Kathryn Dao, MD; Roy Fleischmann, MD; Jon T. Giles, MD, MPH; and Grace C. Wright, MD, PhD — and highlights the evolution of safety in our field, a phenomenon profoundly influenced by our rich armamentarium of targeted therapies not even dreamed of when I started training.

A nurse-led multidisciplinary initiative targeted at providers and medical staff doubled the number of patients who scheduled a follow-up routine visit for HIV preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.

While the long-acting injectable Apretude was more effective at reducing the incidence of HIV than oral emtricitabine-tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, researchers said it does not justify the higher costs associated with it.