Family medicine clerkships in medical school were found to have varying degrees of curriculum dedicated to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) based on the expertise or judgement of the faculty. Educating ...
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) remains a significant global health challenge, affecting millions of people worldwide. While advancements in medical science have led to better management of the ...
Although adolescents and young adults comprise only one quarter of the sexually active population in the United States, ...
What Is PrEP for HIV? PrEP is medicine that helps protect you from HIV. It stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. “Pre” means before. You take the medicine before you think you might come into contact ...
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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Quote card by Opinion. When I, a heterosexual woman, visited clinics in Ann Arbor, I heard nothing ...
As many celebrated the recent decision to make HIV prevention medication free on most insurance plans, those who are uninsured felt the gap between them and their life-saving treatment widened further ...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a medication regimen that is used to protect at-risk populations from HIV infection. The FDA approved the drug TRUVADA ...
Since the start of the HIV epidemic in 1981, over 700,000 Americans have lost their lives to AIDS. Being infected used to be a death sentence. But now, 40 years later, the U.S. is on the precipice of ...
A big part of Washington D.C.'s plan to get its HIV rate down is to get more uninfected people on PrEP, a two-medicine combination pill that's also sold under the brand name Truvada. When taken daily ...
The CDC estimates 2.2 million Americans could benefit from HIV prevention drugs, but just over a quarter of that group have ...
The CasePREP Excellence in Mentoring Award was started in 2014. This award is given to an outstanding PREP mentor who has opened their laboratory to host PREP Scholars and has provided outstanding ...