CDC Adopts 2 New HIV Intervention Approaches

According to this Medical News Today article, CDC Recognizes UCSF's Research As Critical To HIV Prevention, two HIV prevention interventions developed by UCSF researchers have been selected as additions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2008 Compendium of Evidence-based HIV Prevention Interventions. The UCSF interventions - Positive Choice: Interactive Video Doctor and the Healthy Living Project - comprise two of the eight added to the list of 57 rigorously evaluated highly effective HIV prevention programs recommended by the CDC for implementation. As a San Franciscan and UCSF alumnus, I'm proud to see these contributions to the CDC's efforts in HIV prevention. 

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HIV Pre Exposure Prophylaxis - Very Sharp Two Edged Sword

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV infection just got a huge spotlight, in this ABC News article, ABC News Examines Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis For HIV Prevention. It seems that HIV drugs taken within days after exposure to the virus have been shown to reduce the risk of infection. Part of the debate is whether approval of such pills could lead some high-risk groups to forgo safe sex practices such as condom use.

After reading this, I'm wondering if we should all be worried about prEP usage without safe sex practices. Are you worried?

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Abzymes Pinpoint The HIV Achilles Heel

Updated August 30, 2023

The original link broke.

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Achilles' heel spotted for promising HIV prevention drug. Bi-monthly injections of cabotegravir kept most people free of HIV, but also hid infections and fueled resistance in rare cases, study finds. - Nature

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Many thanks to Mary Ann Liebert publications (AIDS Patient Care and STDs. November 1, 2008, 22(11): 921-923. doi:10.1089/apc.2008.9938) for making the text of this HIV/AIDS and STD Update available online, "Pinpointing the Achilles Heel of HIV" (abzymes). I'm sharing this with you because this update is so well written that I'd do you an injustice in trying to rewrite it. Because there's a fair amount of interest in this topic of HIV abzymes, I'm posting this so that you can do further reading for yourself. 

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HIV Hope and Breakthrough - Abzymes Attack HIV Achilles Heel (video)

Updated May 21, 2017

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CRISPR kills HIV and eats Zika 'like Pac-man'. Its next target? Cancer | WIRED UK

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Really fascinating CBS News Video, " Possible HIV Cure?" This discovery makes so much sense. Find something about the HIV virus that doesn't mutate so much, and find something to attack it, abzymes! ...



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