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Simpler PrEP services - fewer check-ups, online care - work as well as the standard approach

1 month ago | aidsmap.com | Roger Pebody

Estimated reading time 3 minutes While some countries have already shifted to less intensive monitoring requirements for PrEP users, a Dutch study has now provided evidence that it’s OK to test for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) every six months, to have clinic appointments at the same rhythm and for services to be delivered online. Simplified, less burdensome services had just as good outcomes as the standard of care.
Once-yearly PrEP moves closer: experimental lenacapavir formulations show promise

1 month ago | aidsmap.com | Liz Highleyman

Estimated reading time 7 minutes As Gilead Sciences prepares to launch twice-yearly lenacapavir pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) later this year, the company is also developing once-yearly formulations that could make an even greater contribution to ending the HIV epidemic. Researchers reported the first phase I data on two longer-lasting formulations this week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2025) and in The Lancet.
DoxyPEP: Using antibiotics to prevent STIs | aidsmap

Jul 4, 2024 | aidsmap.com

Taking the antibiotic doxycycline after sex works well to prevent syphilis and chlamydia for gay and bisexual men, and trans women.
Sex toys and the risk of HIV transmission | aidsmap

May 7, 2024 | aidsmap.com

The risk of sharing sex toys varies according to whether they are covered with condoms, and whether they're properly cleaned between use with different partners
Switching from TAF to TDF leads to weight loss

Apr 22, 2024 | aidsmap.com | Keith Alcorn

Replacing TAF with other drugs did not affect weight, Swiss HIV Cohort reports Estimated reading time 6 minutes Switching from tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) to the older formulation of tenofovir disoproxil (TDF) resulted in modest weight loss in people with HIV in the Swiss HIV Cohort, researchers report in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. Switching from TAF to TDF also brought benefits in the forms of reduced cholesterol and triglycerides.
Women with HIV need tailored advice on statins and heart disease risk

Mar 12, 2024 | aidsmap.com | Keith Alcorn

Estimated reading time 5 minutes Counselling about heart disease risk and statin use for women with HIV should highlight the similar levels of risk for men and women with HIV when communicating the results of the REPRIEVE study, one of the study’s investigators told the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024) in Denver last week. Advice also needs to make women aware of how the symptoms of heart disease differ in women and men.
Huge increase in PrEP uptake when services offer choice, flexibility and injectable PrEP, African study shows | aidsmap

Mar 8, 2024 | aidsmap.com

A programme in rural Kenya and Uganda that has already demonstrated that a dynamic, person-centred HIV prevention intervention results in substantial increases in the numbers of people covered by PrEP or PEP, has now shown the added benefits of offering a choice between PrEP pills and PrEP injections.
People need pathways from PEP to PrEP - and back again

Mar 5, 2024 | aidsmap.com | Roger Pebody

Estimated reading time 4 minutes Services providing post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) need to build stronger connections between these two ways of preventing HIV infection, so as to help people who’ve used one method to access the other, according to experts at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024).
Unequal and inadequate: U=U communication from South African healthcare providers | aidsmap

Feb 15, 2024 | aidsmap.com

People living with HIV in South Africa expressed a lack of awareness, confusion, and scepticism regarding U=U, according to a recent qualitative study published in PLoS ONE. Healthcare providers acted as gatekeepers and expressed fears that U=U knowledge would lead to increases in condomless sex.
Too many older people with HIV taking medicines they may not need

Feb 1, 2024 | aidsmap.com | Keith Alcorn

Medicines that raise the risk of falls and confusion being prescribed for too long, without regular checks Estimated reading time 5 minutes A high proportion of older people with HIV are taking medicines they do not need that could increase the risk of falls and confusion, Spanish researchers have found in a review of studies looking at inappropriate medication prescribing in people with HIV.