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Mashup Score: 61Celebrating Flick Thorley and her involvement with HIV and AIDS care for #LVW24 - National HIV Story Trust - 15 day(s) ago
For Lesbian Visibility Week 2024, the National HIV Story Trust celebrates one of its patrons and ongoing supporters, the wonderful Flick Thorley. We take a look at Flick’s involvement with HIV and AIDS care, and talk to her about visibility and activism.
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Mashup Score: 11FMLM Conference 2024 | Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management - 2 month(s) ago
FMLM Conference 2024 held at Manchester University, UK. Improving patient centred care through inclusive clinical leadership.
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Introduction Cabotegravir and rilpivirine (CAB+RPV long-acting (LA)) is recommended as a treatment for HIV-1 allowing people living with HIV to receive 2 monthly injectable treatment, rather than daily pills. Providing injectable therapy in a system designed to provide and manage study participants on oral treatments poses logistical challenges namely how resources are used to accommodate patient preference within constrained health economies with capacity limitations. In this pragmatic multicentre study, we aim to understand the implementation of CAB-RPV-LA administration in two settings via mixed methods to explore perspectives of participants and the clinical team delivering CAB+RPV LA. Methods and analysis Women, racially minoritised people and older people are chronically under-represented in HIV clinical trials so the ILANA trial has set recruitment caps to ensure recruitment of 50% women, 50% ethnically diverse people and 30% over 50 years of age to include a more representative
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Mashup Score: 63Breakthrough in HIV Treatment - 3 month(s) ago
Long-acting injectable HIV treatment revealed is phase 3 study.
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Increased test uptake for HIV and viral hepatitis is fast becoming a health priority at both national and global levels. Late diagnosis of these infections remains a critical public health concern in the UK. Recommendations have been issued to expand …
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Objectives Routine HIV screening is recommended in those UK hospitals and primary care settings where the HIV prevalence is > 0.2%. For hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), however, …
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Mashup Score: 12Combined “Test and Treat” Campaigns for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C: A Systematic Review to Provide Evidence to Support WHO Treatment Guidelines - 4 month(s) ago
We analysed 175 studies of combined testing for HIV, HBV and HCV. For every person testing HIV positive, another 5 tested positive for HBV, and 3 for HCV. Combi
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What did the systematic review find? 175 studies with 14million individuals were included. Mean prevalence: HIV 0.22%, HBV 1.09% & HCV 0.65%. Under triple testing, for every individual diagnosed with HIV, another 5 would be diagnosed with HBV & 3 with HCV https://t.co/wFN3iEwXtZ https://t.co/jNjJgrl6As
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Standalone HIV testing is a missed opportunity- a recent systematic review showed eight cases of viral hepatitis would be missed for each new HIV diagnosis. The
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Introduction Cabotegravir and rilpivirine (CAB+RPV long-acting (LA)) is recommended as a treatment for HIV-1 allowing people living with HIV to receive 2 monthly injectable treatment, rather than daily pills. Providing injectable therapy in a system designed to provide and manage study participants on oral treatments poses logistical challenges namely how resources are used to accommodate patient…
Source: BMJ OpenCategories: HIV/AIDS, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Mpox in People with Past Infection or Complete Vaccination Course: A Global Case Series - 11 month(s) ago
Background. Since May 2022, a large global outbreak of human mpox has predominantly affected men who have sex with men. The strain responsible, Clade IIb,
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So delighted to see my wife’s ( @Goaagogo) incredible work as a pioneering HIV nurse centred by @HIVstorytrust for #LesbianVisibilityWeek They do amazing work commemorating the history of HIV in the UK. https://t.co/oVLLZd7ffW