Introduction: Long-acting antiretrovirals: Are they the future of HIV treatment or will the future pass them by? As research progresses on long-acting antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) for HIV — also sometimes referred to as extended-release (ER) antiretroviral therapy — experts disagree about …
After 3 years, tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) for first-line HIV treatment was better at suppressing viral load and safer for the bones and kidneys than the older tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), researchers reported at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) …
Ageing with HIV, can be both a celebration and a concern. A celebration because effective HIV treatments have given life-years back to all people on effective treatment; but a concern since people are now moving into older age with HIV and …
Yes folks, it’s that time of year again to get flu vaccinated and build up our winter defences against the debilitating effects of influenza. The official flu season typically spans from May to October each year. Flu vaccination is available from …
Capsid assembly is the step in the HIV lifecycle where the virus develops a cone-shaped core (capsid) particle, which contains or encloses the viral genetic blueprint (genome), inside a maturing infectious virion. It consists of a protein envelop membrane which protects …
Bictegravir matches dolutegravir for first-line treatment in Phase 2 studies Paul Sax at CROI 2017. Photo by Liz Highleyman, hivandhepatitis.com Bictegravir, an investigational new integrase inhibitor, was highly potent, well tolerated and worked as well as dolutegravir (Tivicay – an existing …
Kathleen Squires at CROI 2017. Photo by Liz Highleyman, hivandhepatitis.com Doravirine, an investigational next-generation non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) that reduced HIV viral load as well as boosted darunavir (a Protease Inhibitor) in a phase 3 clinical trial of people starting …
Treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provide new ways to safely avoid HIV, but this poses challenges to the ways in which communities understand and practice ‘safe sex’, Martin Holt of the University of New South Wales told a public …
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a new commonwealth support program for people under 65yo with a permanent disability impairment that affects activities of functional daily living. The program is now being progressively rolled out across Australian states and territories, …
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