HIV and Mental Health Care

June 11, 2020: Diagnosis rates within a year of infection; rates of intentional non-daily PrEP use; neurological development in children of birth parents with HIV; point-of-care urine test to assess tenofovir levels.

This new study is the first to look at the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on men who have sex with men.

Psychotherapy, as a part of comprehensive HIV care, may forever be transformed.

Giving good HIV care means taking into account the many marginalize identities patients can hold. And, being marginalized often comes with a lot of trauma.

Telemedicine is helping keep transgender patients connected to care, but gaps still exist.

People who have survived the isolation of HIV now have a pandemic whose main intervention is isolation.

Having to diagnose people with HIV again and again can take a mental toll on health care workers, as can hearing people’s traumas. But few health care workers process the vicarious trauma they experience.

April 2, 2020: Physical activity vs. heart med adherence; reducing the burden of HIV emergency care; increasing smoking cessation intervention success; virologic failure following asymptomatic HIV treatment initiation.

March 19, 2020: Mood disorders and metabolic syndrome; comorbidity burden among women living with HIV; two-year weight gain after switching to integrase; long-term adipose tissue density trends.

Addiction needs to be addressed by prevention and treatment, but policy makers need skin in the game too.