CROI: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
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Long-acting ART effective without viral suppression
“Instead of having the burden of taking a pill every day, patients with HIV can now have these choices of being able to forget about their...
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Doxy PEP does not lower risk of STIs in cisgender women
Women are known to be at higher risk of infection because the lining of the vagina is thinner than the skin of the penis, allowing for easier...
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Meningococcal vaccine shows benefit in STI prevention
“The duration of protective efficacy – a big thing in vaccines – is unknown. Still, this is really significant.”
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Metformin linked to reductions in COVID-19 viral load
Key questions the findings raise include whether the results correlate with clinical outcomes or transmission, and whether the findings are...
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Eight-week TB treatment strategy shows potential
“Clinicians will not feel comfortable with the short regimens at this point, but it is remarkable that so many patients did well with shorter...
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Different variants may cause different long COVID symptoms: Study
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Full results of anal cancer study point to barriers to care
Infrastructure, algorithms, and workforce training are going be needed to meet the currently unserved people through use of high-resolution...
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Third transplant patient cured of HIV marks important firsts
“A bone marrow transplant is not a viable large-scale strategy for curing HIV, but it does present a proof of concept that HIV can be cured.”
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Long COVID is real and consists of these conditions – or does it?
“I think this is at least helpful in telling us what disease states are different pre- and post COVID, and what sorts of diagnoses clinicians...
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16 toddlers with HIV at birth had no detectable virus 2 years later
“We’re confirming here that the first step toward remission and cure is reducing reservoirs. We’ve got that here.”
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A third person living with HIV has been cured by transplant
“There was no GVH disease. That’s incredible. It’s a wonderful thing.”
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Pediatric TB – more work needed, especially with HIV-coinfection
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Are long-acting injectables the future of TB treatment?
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Five-day course of oral antiviral appears to stop SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks
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HIV shortens life expectancy 9 years, healthy life expectancy 16 years