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This Week in HIV Research: Health in Unity
Jan. 21, 2021: Dyad-level interventions in serodiscordant relationships; using social media to improve PrEP uptake; HCV prevalence among MSM; the irrelevance of doxycycline prophylaxis against mycoplasma genitalium.

This Week in HIV Research: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
Dec. 28, 2020: The power of clinic-pharmacy collaborations; overcoming COVID-19-induced barriers to HIV care; urine testing as a PrEP adherence tool; using incarceration history in PrEP Rx assessments.

Can the mRNA Technology Used for COVID-19 Vaccines Also Give Us an HIV Vaccine?
Developing a vaccine for HIV presents more challenges than creating one for COVID-19, but research that has led to the new COVID vaccines can help bring an HIV vaccine closer to reality.

This Week in HIV Research: Are Our Priorities in the Right Place?
Dec. 10, 2020: Where the Ending the HIV Epidemic plan falls short; housing instability and HIV care incentives; financial wellbeing vs. health care access; San Diego's complex webs of HIV transmission.

This Week in HIV Research: Our Immensely Intersectional Epidemic
Dec. 3, 2020: A simple scoring system for PrEP referral; integrating meth use and HIV prevention interventions; genetically linked HIV strains cross county lines; viral suppression rates in first vs. second pregnancies.

Top 10 HIV Clinical Developments of 2020
In this exclusive series of articles, David Alain Wohl, M.D., calls attention to 10 developments that have tremendous short-term implications for our day-to-day efforts to improve HIV prevention, treatment, patient care, and policy in the U.S., and analyzes each development with his trademark wit and clinical savvy.

HIV PrEP Is Finally About to Get Its Shot
PrEP for HIV is a pill. It has always been a pill. But it will not always be a pill, thanks to two major trials evaluating cabotegravir, an integrase inhibitor formulated for intramuscular injection, as PrEP.

PrEP and Prior Authorization: A Discriminatory Cheap Ploy
An important new analysis describes a key barrier to PrEP in the U.S., one that is almost sinister in its application predominantly in southern states.

DoxyPEP for STIs: Are We Ready for Prophylactic Doxycycline for MSM on HIV PrEP?
A recent expert debate explored the pros and cons of prescribing the antibiotic as a preventive measure for a subset of people at especially high risk for sexually transmitted infections.

For PrEP to Work, Shared Doctor-Patient Decision-Making Is Key
The process of choosing between PrEP options is often not straightforward. Oni Blackstock, M.D., explains how providers can help ensure their patients end up with the most successful option for them.