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New edition of HIV & women

New edition of HIV & women

Fear of judgement prevents gay and bisexual men from discussing chemsex with healthcare workers in Australia

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Asian people with HIV gain weight after starting treatment at similar rate to other ethnic groups

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Large disparities in dolutegravir uptake persist between men and women in low and middle-income countries

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The US must tackle racial disparities among people who inject drugs and expand syringe service programmes

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Deep dive into HIV’s hidden DNA finds that some people could eventually drop their drugs

This figure from the journal article shows how all the pieces of proviral DNA found in all six study participants' cells were distributed around the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the  cells' nuclei. The red lines are DNA that gave rise, at one or more time points, to viral RNA, and the blue lines are DNA that never did. It can be seen that RNA production was rare from DNA that was located outside active gene sites in the 'gene deserts'.

Big increase in recent PrEP users among new HIV cases, largest UK clinic reports

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HIV clinicians should ask gay men if they want to become fathers

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Further evidence that COVID breakthrough infections are more common in people living with HIV

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