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November 13, 2022
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Evolving COVID-19 variants limit effectiveness of current therapies

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.

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October 21, 2022
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Exciting alternatives: An overview of long-acting HIV treatment, prevention

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.

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October 05, 2022
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Evusheld, aggressive therapy may reduce COVID-19 severity in patients on B-cell depletion

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.

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September 23, 2022
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What has been the biggest success and biggest failure of the HIV/AIDS response?

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

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June 21, 2022
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Safety in rheumatology, COVID-19 and Evusheld PreP: Where do you stand?

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.

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April 13, 2022
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Scheduling, workflow initiative doubles visits for HIV PrEP

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.

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January 31, 2022
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Long-acting injectable for HIV prevention 'overpriced'

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.

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January 30, 2022
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People with HCV and opioid use disorder have low PrEP uptake, adherence

HIV PrEP uptake and adherence were low among a cohort of people with opioid use disorder who were undergoing treatment for hepatitis C virus, despite many of them meeting CDC criteria for PrEP use, according to a study.

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January 15, 2022
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HIV self-testing plus biofeedback counseling increases PrEP adherence among women

An intervention for PrEP users and their partners that combined oral HIV self-testing with adherence biofeedback counseling almost doubled the recent adherence to PrEP among postpartum women in South Africa compared with standard of care.

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December 20, 2021
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FDA approves first long-acting injectable for HIV prevention

The FDA on Monday approved ViiV Healthcare’s cabotegravir as the first long-acting injectable for HIV PrEP.

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