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Mashup Score: 0Who benefits from frequent asymptomatic STI screening? - 3 day(s) ago
How often should asymptomatic gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) and transgender women be screened for gonorrhoea and chlamydia, if at all? Incidences of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have been rising steadily for some years and many countries have responded by doubling down on more frequent screening in those at risk. GBM and transgender women who take HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are among those most likely to acquire STIs, and most guidelines recommend testing every 3 months in this group.
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Mashup Score: 8
We failed to show that non-screening for N gonorrhoeae and C trachomatis is non-inferior to 3 × 3 screening in MSM and transgender women taking PrEP in Belgium. However, screening was associated with higher antibiotic consumption and had no effect on the incidence of N gonorrhoeae. Further research is needed to assess the benefits and harms of N gonorrhoeae and C trachomatis screening in this population.
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Mashup Score: 0Evidence with 95-95-95 that ambitious is feasible - 9 day(s) ago
When proposed a decade ago, the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets were described as aggressive, ambitious, and daunting.1 Nevertheless, these milestones have had a profound effect on HIV responses, galvanizing efforts globally. In The Lancet HIV, Madisa Mine and colleagues2 provide empirical evidence that Botswana, which has one of the highest global prevalences of HIV (one in five adults are living with HIV), has achieved the 95-95-95 targets in 2021, 4 years ahead of the 2025 deadline. The Fifth Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS V) showed that 92% of people living with HIV were virally suppressed, which is above the 86% goal (extrapolated from 95-95-95).
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Mashup Score: 22Progress towards the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets in the Fifth Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS V 2021): a nationally representative survey - 9 day(s) ago
BAIS V is the first population-based survey worldwide to report the achievement of the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals, both overall and among women. Strategies to reach undiagnosed men and young people, including young women, are needed.
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Mashup Score: 4Drew Voetsch and Robert Selato on achieving the 95-95-95 UNAIDS goals in Botswana - The Lancet HIV in conversation with - 15 day(s) ago
Deputy Editor Adrian Gonzalez interviews Drew Voetsch (Division of Global HIV and TB, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA) and Robert Selato (National AIDS and Health Promotion Agency, Gaborone, Botswana) on Botswana´s accomplishments and progress towards achieving the UNAIDS 95 targets.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(24)00003-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhiv
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Mashup Score: 11
Study data support using long-acting cabotegravir or long-acting rilpivirine, given every 4 weeks or 8 weeks, per the adult dosing regimens, in virologically suppressed adolescents aged 12 years and older and weighing at least 35 kg.
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Mashup Score: 0Are we ready for long-acting HIV treatment for adolescents? - 24 day(s) ago
Adolescents with HIV have worse health outcomes along each step of the HIV care cascade worldwide compared with adults.1 Considerable socioeconomic, behavioural, and developmental differences between adolescents and adults contribute to this health inequity.2 Adolescents with HIV face multiple challenges in initiating and adhering to oral HIV treatment, including being able to independently access confidential health care, dual HIV and sexual and reproductive health stigma, poverty, violence, limited health literacy, risk-taking behaviour, mental health distress, and substance abuse.
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Mashup Score: 41The Lancet HIV, April 2024, Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages e199-e272 - 1 month(s) ago
Explore the current issue of The Lancet HIV, a monthly journal dedicated to publishing content that advocates for change in or illuminates HIV clinical practice
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Mashup Score: 6Impact of HIV self-testing for oral pre-exposure prophylaxis scale-up on drug resistance and HIV outcomes in western Kenya: a modelling study - 1 month(s) ago
Scaling up PrEP using HIV self-testing has similar health impacts, costs, and low risk of drug resistance as provider-administered rapid diagnostic tests. Policy makers should consider leveraging HIV self-testing to expand PrEP access among those at HIV risk.
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Mashup Score: 116Retiring the term AIDS for more descriptive language - 1 month(s) ago
The term acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was coined to describe a condition marked by weakened cell-mediated immunity in the absence of a clear cause. Due to unfortunate messaging during the early days of the HIV epidemic, this term became loaded with stigma. After the discovery of HIV, the term AIDS became redundant, but its use has persisted and has come to embody negative connotations in the current landscape of the HIV epidemic. People commonly associate AIDS with a terminal illness.
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