China has finally approved the HIV-preventing drug Truvada for PrEP use after a lengthy campaign by activists, PinkNews reports. According to the Centre for Disease Control, Pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) is when people at risk for HIV take daily medicine to prevent HIV. PrEP can stop HIV from taking hold and spreading throughout your body. When…
Johns Hopkins Researcher, Carrie Lyons, presented a recent analysis of rates of HIV around the world by last month at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual). The study, Aidsmap reports, conducted between 2011 – 2018 collected data from about 8113 men who have sex with men in 10 Sub Saharan African countries. The…
Twenty of the world’s leading HIV scientists have launched an evidence-based consensus that systematically refutes the rationale for laws that criminalize HIV transmission. The “Expert Consensus Statement on the Science of HIV in the Context of Criminal Law” and an accompanying editorial were published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) today. Concerned that HIV criminalization laws are…
Critically acclaimed drama, ‘Call Me by Your Name’ is getting a sequel. The film’s director, Luca Guadagnino, told The Hollywood Reporter that HIV/AIDS will be tackled in the sequel adding that “I think it’s going to be a very relevant part of the story.” “I think Elio [Timothee Chalamet] will be a cinephile, and I’d like him to…
In October, two groups researching the effectiveness of a potential breakthrough drug in the fight against HIV did something unusual. They announced that the therapy they were testing, an antiretroviral drug called Truvada, had proved effective enough to end the randomized phases of the trials, and that they were offering the pill to all of the studies’ participants. The…
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