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Anthony Fauci Makes Statement on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
The following is a statement on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day from Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. It was originally published here. There is a growing consensus that we can significantly curtail the HIV/AIDS pandemic by implementing scientifically proven HIV prevention strategies, such as voluntary [...]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee recommended Thursday that the supplemental application for Gilead Sciences’ HIV drug Truvada (a combination of emtricitabine plus tenofovir, or TDF-FTC) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) be approved for high-risk, HIV-negative individuals to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV infection. The panel of medical experts, [...]
The World Health Organization released its new “Guidance on couples HIV testing and counselling, including antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment and prevention in serodiscordant couples: Recommendations for a public health approach” on Wednesday. Discordant couples are those where one partner is HIV-infected and the other is not, where a couple is defined as two persons in an ongoing [...]
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