Gus Cairns Editor

Gus joined the editorial team in 2009 and has previously edited HIV Treatment Update and Preventing HIV. He currently focuses on the PrEP in Europe Initiative and on news reporting.

People & personal stories

Anthony Fauci: “I don’t do this because I’m a hero. I do it because it’s necessary.”

PrEP policies & guidelines

Is reducing anxiety a legitimate indication for PrEP in itself?

Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Undetectable viral load and transmission – information for HIV-negative people

Injectable & long-acting PrEP

Study of injectable PrEP reports the best efficacy seen yet for any form of PrEP in women

Hepatitis & HIV

European HIV doctors conduct their first-ever region-wide audit of services

Quality of life

Living with HIV is still a burden, Dutch gay and bisexual men tell researchers

Injectable & long-acting HIV treatment

New once-a-week drug could be part of weekly oral treatment

Access to healthcare

European AIDS Treatment Group documents the impact of COVID on HIV services throughout Europe

Injectable & long-acting HIV treatment

Injectable HIV therapy should save money if adherence is better than to oral therapies

PrEP science

Trans and cis women and men all have similar levels of PrEP drugs in blood, directly observed dosing study finds

PrEP science

Two different cases of PrEP failure despite high adherence underline that such events are rare, but should not be ignored

PrEP

PrEP, sex, intimacy and mental health

The search for a cure

Loreen Willenberg's HIV seems to have disappeared. Is this good news for the rest of us?

The search for a cure

Elite controllers may self-vaccinate against active HIV infection, gene study suggests

Mental & emotional health problems

Sexual compulsivity and harmful drug use decreased in men who started PrEP in Amsterdam

Coronavirus

Two UK studies find that HIV infection may be a risk factor for dying from COVID-19

Resistance

“Unprecedented” case of transmission of four-class resistant HIV virus reported in France

PrEP programmes & uptake

Chicago study suggests knowledge of PrEP is not crossing over to women