Alan McCord

"Helping People Access PrEP: A Frontline Provider Manual on PrEP Research, Care and Navigation" provides a wide range of information to aid the daily work that frontline staff engage in to support PrEP access and adherence.

Maturation inhibitors act at the last step of the HIV life cycle and keep the protein known as Gag from helping the virus to mature and become infectious. No other drugs of this type have yet made it to market.

The new NNRTI doravirine may offer benefits over the other approved NNRTIs, rilpivirine (Edurant) and efavirenz (Sustiva, Stocrin), neither of which are recommended as first-line treatment in the U.S.

In an oral presentation at CROI 2009 in Montreal, Canada, information from three studies (FRAM, CARDIA and MESA) show that HIV infection increases the risk that someone will develop hardening of the arteries, or a progressive thickening and hardening...

In two poster presentations at CROI 2009 in Montreal, Canada, acyclovir, a drug used to treat herpes, shows that it also inhibits HIV during the reverse transcription (RT) step in the virus's life cycle. Two studies looked at how acyclovir affected t...

In a poster presentation at the joint 2008 ICAAC/IDSA meeting in Washington, DC, a recent study described a peculiar type of Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) beginning to emerge in healthy people with HIV. These individuals report higher CD4 counts (>300) and l...

Results from a study of IL2 (interleukin-2) garnered substantial interest from a full audience today at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Though IL2 is the most studied immune based therapy, its usefulness as an adjunct for HIV therap...

Those co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) can face significant challenges with sustaining their liver health. This is due to how the two viruses affect the liver over time as well as the ongoing side effects from taking drugs that treat the tw...

In January 2008, the Swiss AIDS Commission issued a controversial report on the transmission of HIV in heterosexual mixed status couples. The report stated that HIV is not likely to be passed on when the positive partner fully adhered to a potent HIV...

The global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic is in enormous need of newer ways to combat the disease. Each year, 9 million people develop TB and about 2 million die. Newer drug resistant and multi-drug resistant strains are complicating treatment efforts wo...