Monthly Archive for: ‘February, 2016’
National HIV Prevention Conference 2015, Part 2: Funding and Stigma
December’s National HIV Prevention Conference focused on the substantial successes of two key biomedical interventions. First, there’s PrEP or pre-exposure prophylaxis, and second, TasP, an HIV treatment known as Treatment as Prevention. PrEP is effective in preventing HIV-negative people from contracting HIV if they take …
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National HIV Prevention Conference 2015, Part 1: Incredible Successes, Intransigent Disparities
Four years ago, the last time the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention convened its National HIV Prevention Conference (NHPC), there was a lot of discussion about the potential for HIV antiviral treatment to foil HIV transmission. At the December 2015 NHPC, Anthony Fauci, …
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