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The delegation of healthcare tasks usually performed by more highly trained health personnel to those with less training, such as nurses and community health workers. Task shifting has allowed HIV services to be scaled up, especially in resource-limited settings.

Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

English clinic survey finds that 40% of gay men with new hepatitis C infections are HIV negative

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7 April 2019
PrEP science

Raltegravir plus lamivudine is likely to work as PrEP

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5 April 2019
Ageing & HIV

Clusters of co-morbidities in people living with HIV show major non-HIV medical needs

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5 April 2019
Circumcision

Systematic analysis suggests that circumcision helps protect MSM from infection with HIV

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4 April 2019
PrEP programmes & uptake

First year of PrEP in Scotland: more users than expected, few dropouts, few HIV infections

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2 April 2019
Treatment simplification strategies

Viral suppression maintained with alternate-day dosing of efavirenz/tenofovir/emtricitabine

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1 April 2019
Access to healthcare

EACS Standard of Care meeting report – Tackling HIV and co-infections in Europe: towards common standards

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29 March 2019
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Epidemic of sexually transmitted hepatitis C in gay men now involves both HIV-positive and HIV-negative men

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29 March 2019
Harm reduction

Opioid overdose deaths are rising among people with HIV in the United States

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28 March 2019
Pharmaceutical industry

Non-adherence to HIV treatment for cost-saving reasons reported by 8% in American study

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27 March 2019
Diabetes

Diet and exercise advice lowers diabetes risk in people with HIV

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26 March 2019
Transgender people

Partners of transgender women form a separate HIV risk group, Peruvian study finds

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22 March 2019
Weight gain & lipodystrophy

The impact of older antiretrovirals on fat redistribution and cardiovascular risk factors may be irreversible

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21 March 2019
PrEP

Urine test can provide accurate point-of-care results about PrEP adherence

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19 March 2019
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Healthcare providers should discuss U=U with all their HIV-positive patients

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18 March 2019
PrEP science

TAF: Quick-dissolve combination PrEP insert is effective against HIV infections in monkeys; intermittent solo pill less so

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13 March 2019
Changing treatment

Dolutegravir-based second-line ART achieves excellent virological outcomes even in the presence of resistance to recycled NRTIs

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13 March 2019
Cancer

Higher HIV viral load and lower CD4 count linked to liver cancer risk

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13 March 2019
Government, leadership & policy

Thailand’s achievements in HIV are not all widely implemented

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12 March 2019
The search for a cure

‘Gentler cure’ technique produces delay in viral rebound in some people taken off HIV therapy

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12 March 2019
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

U=U is a human rights issue

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12 March 2019
Cancer

People with HIV may benefit from earlier lung cancer screening

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12 March 2019
Self-testing & home testing

Self-testing helps the partners of people with HIV to test, but not to link to care

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12 March 2019
TB transmission & prevention

Co-administration of dolutegravir-based treatment and short course of rifapentine/isoniazid (3HP) well tolerated in people living with HIV

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12 March 2019