Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medicine is highly effective in preventing people from contracting HIV, and the risk of developing a drug-resistant version of the virus while… Read more
Tag: HIV
Lessons from HIV Pandemic Can Inform COVID-19 Pandemic Public Health Initiatives, Say Pitt Researchers
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine drawing parallels between the HIV epidemic in Africa and… Read more
Pitt Study Shows How HIV and Cancer Drugs Accelerate Cellular Aging
HIV patients tend to show premature signs of aging. Cancer, cognitive diseases, osteoporosis – these maladies all come before their time for people living with… Read more
HIV Milestone: Grant Guarantees Pitt Men’s Study will Survive to See 40 Years of Research
Dr. Charles Rinaldo recently received the news that a major study he directs to confidentially collect information on men living with HIV will be renewed… Read more
2016’s Top 3 in Infectious Disease
We asked Dr. John W. Mellors, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, what he believes were the… Read more