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10 ways to include people with HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis in city health efforts. Signed at a Fast-Track Cities conference, the Seville Declaration urges “the centrality of affected communities in urban responses to HIV.” People living with and affected by HIV must play a leading role…

In: https://www.medpagetoday.com/hivaids/hivaids/101454 Researchers recommend HIV testing for all sexually active patients with suspected monkeypox by Shannon Firth, October 27, 2022. In a cohort of patients hospitalized with monkeypox, four out of five had HIV and one out of five died, CDC researchers said. Of the 57…

Press Release According to the 2022 World Tuberculosis Report published by the World Health Organization, approximately 10.6 million people contracted tuberculosis in 2021—a 4.5% increase over 2020—and 1.6 million died from it (including 187,000 people living with HIV). Furthermore,…

These three respiratory illnesses, and others, share many of the same symptoms. By Liz Highleyman As winter approaches, many people are wondering how to tell if they have a common cold, influenza (the flu), or COVID-19. All of these are caused by respiratory viruses and share some of the same symptoms, but they can lead to very different outcomes. Several other…

Marcia Frellick Three months after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency, clinical presentations and vaccination strategies are evolving. New areas of concern include transmission among the homeless and severe cases in immunocompromised individuals. Agam K. Rao, MD, of the Poxvirus Branch and…

By Keith Alcorn. Viral load spikes above 50 copies/ml are associated with a higher risk of subsequent treatment failure and should be taken seriously as signs of poor adherence and emerging drug resistance, report researchers from the EuResist study in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. But the study also found…

By Kelli Whitlock Burton. Demonstrating that vitamins, but not cocoa, can be beneficial is the exact opposite of what researchers expected. Even so, the results offer an interesting new direction for future studies, lead researcher Dr. Laura D. Baker, professor of gerontology and geriatric medicine, told Medscape Medical News…

Juan Michael Porter II It has been 10 years since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as a biomedical intervention to prevent HIV acquisition. And although it is now considered a standard part of HIV prevention strategies, misunderstandings abound regarding its proper use…

“It’s really important to consider both factors together,” says the lead author of the meta-analysis. By Sophie Putka. Physician burnout was associated with professional disengagement and poorer patient care, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of more than 200,000 physicians. Across 170 observational studies, physicians with higher burnout rates had…

By Manas Mishra, Reuters, September 14 - The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, urging nations to maintain their efforts against the virus that has killed more than six million people. “We have not yet…”

According to the Health Website, given that the Americas currently have the highest number of monkeypox cases in the world, and that COVID-19 remains a "major threat" to the region, prevention is key to avoiding infections and protecting people's health, stated the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa…

Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published research on the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among people who contract monkeypox. In their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC researchers noted that a significant proportion of people…

A range of long-acting treatment options, administered every few months, could allow more people to receive treatment or offer better clinical options for patients who show resistance to current regimens, thus enabling them to remain on treatment longer and preventing many AIDS-related deaths. In response to the news that…

By Cristina G. Lucio. Madrid. A review of studies links regular physical activity with a lower risk of infection and severe illness. To the already long list of health benefits associated with exercise, a new category can be added: protection against COVID-19. A new review of studies links regular physical activity with…

Dr. Eric Topol In just one week, we have learned more than we have in many months of the COVID pandemic. There has been an avalanche of new reports filling critical gaps in our knowledge base. I will briefly review here the new reports on (1) prevalence; (2) mechanisms and biomarkers; and (3) potential treatments. Predominance While…

Post-exposure prophylaxis with doxycycline within three days of sex reduced the risk of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. By Liz Highleyman. Gay men and transgender women living with HIV or receiving pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) who took the antibiotic doxycycline within 72 hours of…