Drug use generally and chemsex more specifically are perceived to be common and normalised behaviours among gay men involved in those scenes in London, but this perception is contradicted by survey data. As social norms influence health-related behaviour, health promotion interventions should challenge the idea ...

Researchers have come up with the first direct evidence that enough hepatitis C virus (HCV) sheds into the rectums of HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) to transmit directly to another man’s penis during anal sex, even when no blood is present. Publishing their ...

Mylan signs sub-license agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool to increase access to hepatitis C treatment in developing countries HERTFORDSHIRE, England and BENGALURU, India, Nov. 28, 2016 — Mylan N.V. (NASDAQ, TASE: MYL) today announced that the company has signed an agreement with the Medicines Patent ...

South Africa hosts historic NIH-supported clinical trial The first HIV vaccine efficacy study to launch anywhere in seven years is now testing whether an experimental vaccine regimen safely prevents HIV infection among South African adults. The study, called HVTN 702, involves a new version of the ...

Research carried out by Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, found that non-adherence was the strongest risk factor for treatment failure in people taking sofosbuvir/ledipasvir (Harvoni). The main reasons cited for non-adherence were failing to take medication as prescribed and hospitalisation. The findings were presented at ...

Rosuvastatin for 96 weeks significantly slowed progression of subclinical atherosclerosis — as measured by common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CCA-IMT) — in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Participants had normal low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) before treatment began, but the statin further lowered LDL-C, according to the ...

A triple regimen based on an integrase inhibitor decreases viral load in semen very quickly, reducing transmission risk More than 2 million people got infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2015, being sexual transmission the main channel of infection. Researchers from the Infections of the ...