The AJMC® HIV compendium is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights for the condition, including disparities in care, prevention of infection among at-risk groups, and the importance of viral suppression.
May 9th 2024
A high burden of HIV could indicate other underlying factors, such as limited access to health care resources and a risk of major depressive disorder.
Dr Perry N. Halkitis on Achieving Equity in HIV/AIDS and COVID-19
October 5th 2021Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health and director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies, discusses how the HIV/AIDS crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic parallel one another and how both are teaching opportunities.
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The UK’s The Food Chain Fights HIV/AIDS Head on With Crisis Support
September 22nd 2021This London-based charity intervenes in the short term when its clients come up against roadblocks that prevent ready access to good levels of nutrition, whether that crisis is nutritional, physical/mental health, housing, or financial related.
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States Late to Adopt PrEP Risk Falling Further Behind
September 18th 2021A new analysis of 2014-2018 data among all states plus Washington, DC, for those who have either indications for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) or current prescriptions for the preventive treatment, shows a widening gap in PrEP uptake, with states considered early adopters pulling ahead of those considered late adopters.
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Dr Helen Bygrave: Differentiated Service Delivery Can Work Across More Than HIV
September 13th 2021Differentiated service delivery models can be employed to incorporate other chronic disease needs for patients with HIV, emphasized Helen Bygrave, MD, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
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More Focus Needed on Prescribing Disparities for INSTI HIV Treatment
September 10th 2021Data from 2 patient cohorts show that by increasing awareness of such influences as clinic location and patient age and transgender status, gaps in prescription decisions for integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs) can be lessened.
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Dr Allison Agwu on the Health Effects of In Utero vs Later HIV Acquisition
September 2nd 2021Many young people develop resistance to antiretroviral treatment or they experience lipoatrophy; many also have metabolic complications or inflammation via immune activation, noted Allison Agwu, MD, ScM, FAAP, FIDSA, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Outreach, Engagement, Inclusion Infuse the Work of Georgia’s SisterLove Inc
August 30th 2021In 1989, in Atlanta, Georgia, Dázon Dixon Diallo established SisterLove Inc to fill the information and education gap many women, especially Black women, were facing on how the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic could affect them.
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Dr Anna Marzec-Bogusławska: At Poland’s National AIDS Center, Our Patients Are Most Important
August 23rd 2021Krajowe Centrum ds AIDS (National AIDS Center) in Warsaw, Poland, was founded in 1993 as part of the country’s Ministry of Health. Its chief area of advocacy and outreach is access to antiretroviral treatment, in addition to new areas of focus that include prevention of sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis C virus.
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From a Humble Start, Romania’s ARAS Expands Beyond the HIV Space
August 18th 2021Asociaţia Română Anti-SIDA (ARAS; Romanian Association Against AIDS) was founded on April 10, 1992, just 3 years after the fall of communism, making it the first such organization in the country following a time when HIV was not officially acknowledged nor prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections discussed.
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HIV Thriver, Advocate Dawn Averitt on Overcoming HIV-Related Health Care Disparities
August 9th 2021Dawn Averitt opened the session, “Refocus on HIV: How Innovation in HIV Will Address Individual Patient Needs,” on day 1 of IAS 2021, this year's virtual annual meeting of the International AIDS Society, which took place July 18-21.
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SisterLove Inc Founder Dázon Dixon Diallo on Why She Took on the Anti-AIDS Establishment
August 4th 2021SisterLove Inc is a 32-year-old sexual reproductive health rights and justice organization with a core focus on HIV and sexually transmitted infections at the intersection of other challenges to women's sexual reproductive health and well-being.
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Neurocognitive Decline Seen Among Binge Drinkers Living With HIV
August 2nd 2021The cumulative effects of binge drinking and HIV on neurocognitive functioning were investigated among 4 groups of patients in this recent study from researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego.
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Brain Inflammation May Result From Psychologic Stress in Persons Living With HIV
July 28th 2021People living with HIV have known greater rates of stroke, but the reason for that risk was the focus of an abstract presented last week at IAS 2021, this year's virtual annual meeting of the International AIDS Society, which took place July 18 to 21.
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Dr Helen Bygrave: Differentiated HIV Service Delivery Is a Client-Centered Approach
July 25th 2021Providers need to put themselves in their patients' shoes and think about how they would like to receive services, emphasized Helen Bygrave, MD, chronic diseases advisor for the Médecins Sans Frontières’ (Doctors Without Borders) Access Campaign.
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Novel Modeling Approach Improves Health Equity in HIV
July 22nd 2021An abstract presented at IAS 2021, this year's virtual annual meeting of the International AIDS Society, addressed health care disparities that persist among persons living with HIV, with the ultimate goal being to improve health equity for this patient population.
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Dr Perry N. Halkitis: To Eradicate HIV, We Must Deal With Structural Inequities
July 14th 2021By 2020, UNAIDS had hoped to meet the 90-90-90 goal it originally set in 2014: to have 90% of people living with HIV know their status, 90% be on antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 90% have achieved viral suppression. The world fell short of meeting that goal, with just 81% knowing their positive status, two-thirds on ART, and 59% being virally suppressed.
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