The British HIV Association (BHIVA) has recommended that everyone living with HIV aged 40 and over should take a statin to reduce their risk of heart disease, even if they do not have raised ...

Professor Yvonne Bryson of the University of California Los Angeles described the new case at the conference and an accompanying press briefing. The middle-aged (post-menopausal) woman, a participant ...

Over half of funding for anti-gender actors in Europe appears to come from within Europe itself, with significant amounts of money also flowing from the US and the Russian Federation, according to ...

But injectable HIV treatment could have a future in the global south, particularly when other long-acting products are developed, experts said at the 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV ...

CVD is associated with elevated cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. Statins, which bring down low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or ‘bad cholesterol’, have been shown to reduce the risk for ...

A man in southern California, dubbed the 'City of Hope patient', appears to be the latest person cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare mutation, bringing the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now confirmed nearly 100 cases of monkeypox in over a dozen countries, with the largest number in the UK. While most cases so far are among gay and bisexual men ...

An Israeli biotech company has issued a misleading press release which has encouraged some media outlets to falsely suggest that a new drug, Gammora, may be able to cure HIV. Zion Medical report that ...

South Africa is expected to begin piloting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in 2023, health financing mechanism Unitaid tells aidsmap. The demonstration study will be the first of many ...

It’s rare in any branch of medicine that a trial of a new drug can report 100% efficacy, and a first in HIV science. But that’s what happened on Friday, when Gilead Sciences announced that no HIV ...

Now, the world’s first-ever studies of the vaginal ring in late pregnancy and breastfeeding confirm the dapivirine vaginal ring is safe to use for women in their third trimester of pregnancy or while ...

In a session at the 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2022) last week, priorities and lessons learnt from the harm reduction programmes for people who inject drugs in Africa were discussed by a ...