Michael Carter

Michael has been writing news reports for NAM since 2002. As a former staff member, he wrote and edited the first editions of many of NAM’s booklets and factsheets.

Harm reduction

Harm reduction for people who inject drugs in Ukraine and Tanzania associated with improved HIV prevention outcomes

PrEP programmes & uptake

Truvada lawsuit ads are prompting some young people with a high risk of HIV not to start or discontinue PrEP

Coronavirus

Spanish study raises possibility that old-style tenofovir might protect against COVID-19

Coronavirus

Very weak evidence base for antiretrovirals for treatment and prevention of COVID-19, say senior HIV doctors

Cardiovascular disease

A quarter of people living with HIV have hypertension

Tuberculosis & HIV

Black Africans living with HIV in UK have especially high rates of tuberculosis

Sexually transmitted infections epidemiology

Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium in gay men equals that of chlamydia

Clinical trials

Black people and women are under-represented in anti-HIV drug studies

Mental & emotional health & wellbeing

Depression adversely affects cognitive function of people with HIV in both the short- and longer-term

PrEP programmes & uptake

'I stopped PrEP and caught HIV': US researchers ask why

HIV testing programmes & uptake

Amsterdam's strategy to detect and treat acute HIV dramatically reduces time to viral suppression

Liver disease

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects a quarter of lean people living with HIV

Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Low level detectable viral load while taking HIV treatment is associated with poorer medical outcomes

Cancer

Kaposi sarcoma trial in Africa finds that higher cost chemotherapy option is superior

Changing treatment

Delaying treatment changes when first-line ART fails costs lives, says South African study

Cardiovascular disease

Integrase inhibitors may be associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease than NNRTIs and protease inhibitors

Smoking

Group therapy helps people with HIV quit smoking in the long term

Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Hepatitis C spreading rapidly among HIV-positive MSM in Thailand and chemsex is a key risk factor