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May 16th 2024
Patients with HIV who switched to a treatment regimen that included tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) showed improvement in serum markers for hepatic steatosis (HS) among other benefits.
Tahir Amin: Increasing Access to Affordable HIV Drugs Through Patent Opposition
May 4th 2018Tahir Amin, DipLP, co-founder and co-executive director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge, discusses the organization’s focus on patent opposition for HIV drugs, the results of their work, and what efforts are still needed.
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Gaps in Care up to Nine Months Do Not Worsen Viral Load in Patients With HIV
May 2nd 2018Patients with gaps between HIV primary care visits of 6 months up until 9 months did not have a significant difference in viral suppression loads. However, with gaps of 12 months or more, 23% of patients became unsuppressed.
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Long-Term Analysis Highlights Half Trillion Dollars Spent on HIV/AIDS
April 25th 2018Between 2000 and 2015, $562.6 billion was spent on HIV/AIDS, with most spending occurring in high-income and upper-income countries and out-of-pocket spending accounting for less than 10%, according to the first long-term, comprehensive analysis of funding for the disease.
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Specialty Drug Pipeline Review Focuses on Competition, Cancer Drugs
April 24th 2018At the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy's Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy Annual Meeting, held April 23-26, in Boston, Massachusetts, an overflow capacity crowd gathered for one of the meeting’s yearly highlights­: Specialty Pharmaceuticals in Development. Aimee Tharaldson, PharmD, a senior clinical consultant in Emerging Therapeutics for Express Scripts, talked about the key trends in the specialty drug market, including cancer drugs, new competition, and orphan drugs.
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What's New in Adult and Adolescent, Perinatal HIV Guidelines
April 20th 2018AIDSinfo, a portal from the National Institutes of Health, has outlined recent changes that have been made to the adult, adolescent, and perinatal HIV guidelines, including the incorporation of people-first language.
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Patients With HIV Face Increased Risk of Mortality From Lung Cancer
April 18th 2018The increased risk of cancer in patients with HIV has been well defined, and some studies have suggested that patients with HIV have not only a higher risk of lung cancer, but also an increased risk of mortality from their cancer than patients without HIV.
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This Week in Managed Care: April 13, 2018
April 13th 2018This week, the top managed care stories included President Donald Trump signing an executive order requiring the poor to get jobs or lose food and healthcare benefits; a CMS report found ethnic, racial, and gender disparities in Medicare Advantage plans; CDC highlighted the impact of HIV on America's youth.
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National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Highlighting the Impact of Disease on the Age Group
April 10th 2018As April 10 marks National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day, CDC and other organizations are highlighting the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals aged 13 to 24, as they accounted for nearly one-fourth of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2015.
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Christie's Place: Bringing Together and Empowering Women With HIV
April 7th 2018Christie’s Place, a nonprofit social service organization, puts a large focus on social determinants of health to help their clients not only keep up with their medical care, but also improve their quality of life.
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As the opioid epidemic persists as a public health crisis in the United States, there has been growing concern the injection drug use will affect infectious disease, as it increases the risk of infections, such as HIV. A graphic series from Kaiser Family Foundation took a look at the interaction between the nation's HIV and opioid epidemics. Here are 5 take aways.
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This Week in Managed Care: March 30, 2018
March 30th 2018This week, the top managed care stories included another insurer announcing it would pass on drug rebates to consumers; FDA approved a new continuous glucose monitor and created a new medical device class; new guidelines address how to treat people with both HIV and cancer.
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The #AskTheHIVDoc series, launched by Greater Than AIDS in 2015, tackles frequently asked questions that patients at risk for or living with HIV want to know, should know, or are nervous to ask their doctors about. The series has also found usefulness among physicians and health groups.
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HIV Incidence, Prevalence Remain Highest in Men Who Have Sex With Men
March 22nd 2018While years of efforts to combat the HIV epidemic have resulted in major successes, progress in reducing infection among men who have sex with men has lagged as they remain the most affected population, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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What We're Reading: Examining Alcohol Research; Scrutinizing CDC Pick; Idaho's Abortion Reversal Law
March 21st 2018The National Institutes of Health is investigating whether there were any improprieties committed with the recently begun study into health effects of moderate alcohol consumption; concerns over HIV research from 20 years ago brought up against CDC director pick; new Idaho law requires women seeking abortions be told they can halt the drug-induced procedure halfway.
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Despite Increasing Rates of PrEP Usage, Disparities Remain Among African Americans, Latinos
March 17th 2018While rates of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) usage among Americans have significantly increased year over year since PrEP gained approval for HIV prevention in 2012, significant gaps exist among African Americans and Latinos, according to analyses from AIDSVu and the CDC.
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What We're Reading: CSR Bill Updates; Hospital Opioid Shortages; HIV Prevention Disparity
March 15th 2018An updated cost sharing reduction (CSR) subsidy bill would cut premiums while making programmatic changes to insurance; hospitals are facing shortages of opioids for patients; there's low usage of HIV prevention medicine among minorities, according to new data.
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What We're Reading: HIV Prevention Drug Use; Wyoming Medicaid; LA County Revamps Prison Healthcare
March 8th 2018Use of an HIV-prevention pill is increasing across the country, but has lagged among blacks and Latinos; Wyoming House fails to pass Medicaid work requirement bill that sailed through the state Senate; Los Angeles County is overhauling the healthcare in its jails in order to better equip inmates to manage their health.
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FDA Approves Trogarzo for Patients With Multidrug-Resistant HIV
March 7th 2018The FDA approved the antiretroviral medication for adult patients living with HIV who have been treated with multiple medications in the past and whose HIV infection did not respond to other currently available antiretroviral therapies.
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CDC Releases Trends in HIV Diagnoses Among Adolescents, Young Adults From 2010 to 2014
March 3rd 2018During the 4-year time period, the rates of HIV diagnosis decreased among those aged 16 to 19 years, were stable among those aged 20 to 23, and increased among those aged 24 to 29, according to a study published by the CDC.
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This Week in Managed Care: March 2, 2018
March 2nd 2018This week, the top managed care stories included a bipartisan group of governors releasing an outline for health reform; a report finds value-based contracts brings down prescription drug co-pays; 20 states file a lawsuit over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
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