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Schizophrenia and HIV: missed opportunities for care
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- Liz Scherer
Current guidelines need to reflect the role that patients with HIV and psychiatric comorbidities play in HIV transmission.
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Breastfeeding disparities further exacerbated by pending legislation
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- Liz Scherer
For hundreds of years, African American women demonstrated that it takes a village, especially when it comes to breastfeeding.
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HIV stigma persists globally, according to Harris poll
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
Pervasive stereotypes and stigmatization only serve to magnify preexisting social inequities that affect access to appropriate care.
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OTC cannabidiol products tied to improved pain, sleep, anxiety
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“There are some data to suggest that there is an expectancy effect when we talk about the therapeutic benefit of cannabinoid products,” said Dr....
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Clinician experience, life stressors drive HIV adherence, retention in new patients
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“Patients who reported better initial experiences with their provider at the first visit were less likely to be lost to follow-up,” said Dr....
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FDA approves cabotegravir LA; New HIV PrEP option fills an important gap
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“Being able to offer an injectable option is ... a game changer,” said Dr. Lina Rosengren-Hovee of UNC Health.
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Geospatial maps show areas of Africa that need HIV services
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
As many as 1.5 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) in SSA have more than an hour’s motorized travel time both...
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HIV prescription mandate controversy reaches the Supreme Court
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
A firestorm of controversy over access to HIV medications and protection against discriminatory insurance practices has been making its way...
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ANCHOR study findings may usher in new care standards for anal cancer in HIV-infected patients
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- Liz Scherer
“A lot of people with HIV have these high-grade lesions. If we were able to identify who’s at highest risk of all of them, that would be very...
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COVID-19 causes major interruption in global HIV progress
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- Liz Scherer
“We’ve been set back by COVID but we’ve seen remarkable resilience, a lot of innovation and creativity.”
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Guideline gives weak support to trying oral medical cannabis for chronic pain
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
Does oral medical cannabis work in chronic pain? Here’s what the evidence says.
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Injectable cabotegravir PrEP superior to oral TDF-FTC; trial halted early
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“The reason that we were able to show that cabotegravir was superior is because we enrolled a very young, very highly at-risk, very underresourced...
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New guideline for replacement ART: CAB/RPV LA not for everyone
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
Adaptation of CAB/RPV LA as ART requires specific clinical institutional planning, especially in light of...
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Is HIV criminalization the No. 1 barrier to ending the epidemic?
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
HIV criminalization laws subject persons whose behaviors may expose others to HIV to felony or misdemeanor...
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Neurologists brace and prepare for long-COVID fallout
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- Liz Scherer
Data that have accumulated since the COVID-19 outbreak suggest that at least 1 in 3 people who are initially infected may be long-haulers.