An innovative peer-centred outreach project, testing homeless and unstably housed people in London during the height of the COVID epidemic for HIV and viral hepatitis, has revealed a significant proportion with HIV who were either undiagnosed, or diagnosed but not in care. Dr Binta Sultan, physician in Inclusion Health at University College Hospital in London (UCL), presented the project’s…
The predominant forms of HIV originated in chimpanzees in central Africa and probably entered the human population between 1890 and 1920.
Two recent statements about taking the antibiotic doxycycline up to 72 hours after sex to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections, a prevention intervention known as…
People living with HIV have a higher risk of lung cancer than people without HIV. Many people do not have symptoms during the early stages…
An online HIV prevention and relationship education programme developed by Dr Michael Newcomb and colleagues from Northwestern University is proving effective in reducing the risk…
There are lots of reasons you might want or need to change treatment including virological failure, resistance, side effects and drug interactions.
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 may contribute to kidney disease but the two most common causes are diabetes and high blood pressure. Lifestyle changes can help keep kidney disease…
A Danish study which was able to chart the annual incidence of the three bacterial STIs, chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis, in people attending sexual health…
Please note that it is the delegate’s responsibility to investigate visa requirements for Peru and apply for a visa, if necessary. Delegates are advised to…
There are more than 30 antiretroviral medications in six drug classes. Each class of drug attacks HIV at a different stage of the HIV lifecycle.
