Medication Adherence: The Achille’s Heel of U=U
One of the highlights of 2018 that I wrote about last year was the additional research that enforced ...
HIV/AIDS
Mixed Status Couples: Have A Healthy Relationship #Pride
The more time we put into a relationship, the more we learn about our partner. Some revelations ...
Why We Haven’t Cured HIV Infection: A Major Hurdle To Overcome
A little more than twenty years ago, two developments occurred around the same time that tremendously advanced our ...
What Are The Medication-Based Treatment Options For Opioid Addiction
Yesterday morning, I was seeing patients with a colleague of mine, a physician and medical director of a ...
On World AIDS Day 2018, Is there a cure for HIV in sight?
On December 1, 2018, we celebrate the 30th World AIDS Day. For the last 3 decades, this day ...
Intravenous Drug Use of Opioids and HIV transmission: Opioids 101
Opioids are natural and synthetic derivatives of opium, a compound produced by the poppy plant. Opium and its ...
A Real HIV Cure? Here’s What We Know…
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is widely recognized as the leading research conference for HIV ...
HIV and The Gut Microbiome: Prebiotics and Probiotics
In the previous article, I introduced the microbiome. To review, recall that our bodies are essentially a reservoir ...
The HIV Test: Basic Facts You Need To Know
A human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) test detects antibodies to HIV or the genetic material (DNA or RNA) of ...
Importance of the Microbiome in HIV Prevention and HIV Disease (Pt 1)
So you’ve just finished a hot, relaxing shower with your favorite shower gel and then you brush your ...
We Asked 10 College Women About Their HIV status…
Women and girls deserve the knowledge and power they need to live their best lives—and we’re not going ...
What EVERY Person Should Know About HIV
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is one of the most talked about and researched STIs around the world because ...
HIV: Here’s How Your Words Can Help Stop Stigma
A national epidemic like HIV should make you look up and pay attention. Unfortunately, many people are looking ...
New treatment options for HIV patients new and old.
Genes (made of DNA) are like instruction manuals for how to make the proteins that build our bodies ...
