HIV

With more people living with HIV now reaching advanced ages and qualifying for Medicare coverage, this new study investigated HIV-related influences on their health care spending, particularly antiretroviral therapy (ART), compared with a population who does not have HIV.

Attending comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) was associated with increased access to HIV testing among adolescent girls, regardless of whether they were actively in school.

Traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk prediction models may not apply accurately to patients with HIV who may develop the cardiovascular disease younger than usual, said Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program and director of Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Adults living with HIV receiving integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI)–based antiretroviral therapy (ART) had a 76% higher incidence of hypertension compared with adults receiving non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs).

There is evidence that people with HIV may have increased risk of cardiovascular disease and researchers are still trying to understand why, said Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program and director of Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Low functional status based on Duke Activity Status Instrument score was associated with higher cardiometabolic risk among individuals 45 years and older living with HIV, this new multinational cohort study found.

This new meta-analysis from World Health Organization and University of Cape Town investigators analyzed adverse posthospitalization discharge outcomes and related risk factors among persons living with HIV.

This new study evaluated the influence of transmission bottlenecks on HIV-1 infection virulence by comparing outcomes between penile-vaginal intercourse and anal intercourse, and found more severe disease among heterosexual individuals compared with men who have sex with men.

An analysis of 2019 claims data for California Medicaid enrollees shows large disparities in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake, especially among Black individuals.

A new report from the CDC details how services for HIV, sexual health, and viral hepatitis were affected in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from 2019 and 2020.

Although thousands of new substance use disorder treatment facilities that offer medication for opioid use disorder were opened between 2017 and 2020, the proportion of facilities that also offered HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing hardly changed.

An abstract presented at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) bore out the results of an Italian investigation into a potential link between persons living with HIV (PLWH) taking newer antiretroviral therapies and neurocognitive disorder prevalence.

A data analysis found a 22% reduction in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) prescriptions and a 25% reduction in new PrEP users in the United States after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency.

The CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also covered varying COVID-19 vaccination coverage among people living with HIV (PLWH) in New York.

A woman is now the third person in the world to be cured of HIV; CDC data suggest vaccinating women against COVID-19 during pregnancy may protect infants after birth; provider groups push to keep Direct Contracting payment model.

A new study from North Carolina has investigated individuals’ experiences with and perspectives on their receipt of HIV-related care while incarcerated in 1 of 21 jails in the state.

New data from the CDC’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report highlight disparities of HIV diagnoses among Black adults in the United States.

This retrospective study evaluated real-world implementation of the updated CDC HIV algorithm in a large US laboratory.

Researchers have discovered a highly virulent HIV-1 variant in the Netherlands that causes immune system strength to decline twice as fast vs other HIV strains.

As a social determinant of health, transportation barriers and their impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) were investigated among persons living with HIV in the Deep South.

COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people living with HIV was associated with older age, more years living with HIV, higher education level, and higher perceived COVID-19 vulnerability.

Little-known drugs are now contributing to the US overdose epidemic; the Government Accountability Office finds HHS is at "High Risk Alert"; Moderna begins HIV vaccine trial.

Men who have sex with men (MSM), in particular those paying for sex, need to be a priority population for targeted HIV prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa.

In this recent CDC report, data show decreases in new HIV diagnoses in Lesotho, in Africa, among adolescent girls and young women attending antenatal care.

The Biden administration will distribute 400 million nonsurgical N95 masks; a study aims to develop a questionnaire to enable gay and bisexual men to donate blood; counterfeit versions of Gilead HIV treatments were discovered in 9 states.

A mother in her early 30s received her HIV-1 diagnosis only after her child received their diagnosis of both HIV-1 and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia at age 28 weeks.

In this review, comparable positive outcomes were seen among persons living with HIV vs not living with HIV who underwent kidney or liver transplant.

Researchers found that fully vaccinated people with HIV have a 41% higher risk of COVID-19 breakthrough infection compared with people without HIV.

This new study from India investigated outcomes as they pertained to preterm birth, low birth weight, and infant growth measures up to 1 year post delivery.

HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) may influence subdominant gut bacteria in association with immune status in children living with HIV.