Heather Boerner

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NIH on HIV vaccine failure: ‘Get your HIV-negative, at-risk patients on PrEP tomorrow’

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: September 7, 2021

“I think we need to be careful,” she said, “thinking that the mRNA vaccines are going to crack it.”

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When it comes to young women, regular check-ins support ongoing PrEP use

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 26, 2021

This is important in the U.S. because cisgender Black women make up 60% of all new HIV cases in the U.S. while accounting for just 14% of the U.S. ...

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Younger adults with HIV have higher CVD risk but low ASCVD scores

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 23, 2021

People age 40 and younger living with HIV have a higher risk for heart disease than even their over-40 peers livi...

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HIV: Could another two-drug regimen be on the horizon?

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 20, 2021

The once-daily investigational two-drug HIV treatment islatravir plus doravirine showed a low leve...

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HIV increases risk for severe COVID-19

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 20, 2021

“We don’t have any information from this about the T-cell counts [or] the rates of viral suppression, which I think is tremendously important,” one...

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The latest on HIV care, cure, and PrEP

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 15, 2021

Some highlights of the upcoming International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science meeting are presented.

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Five-day course of oral antiviral appears to stop SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: March 9, 2021

“It has the potential to be practice changing; it’s not practice changing at the moment.”

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Abnormal anal paps in people with HIV can go more than a year without follow-up

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: November 19, 2020

In the U.S., people living with HIV are 19 times more likely to develop anal cancer, according to a journal article.

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‘Uptake is only the first step’ for effective HIV PrEP protection

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: November 19, 2020

Follow-up in patients who received HIV PrEP prescriptions through a Detroit program was under 50%.

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Escalate HIV adherence strategies amid COVID-19

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: November 13, 2020

Virtual care is not meeting the needs of people with HIV who struggled with viral suppression even before the COV...

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Easy access to PrEP reduces rates of HIV acquisition

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 16, 2020

“We haven’t really seen PrEP being scaled up and offered at such a broad level in communities,” Koss said during AIDS 2020.

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Hep C sofosbuvir/daclatasvir combo promising for COVID-19

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 13, 2020

“We need to remember that conducting research amidst a pandemic with overwhelmed hospitals is a clear challenge, and we cannot be sure of success.”...

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Injection beats pill for long-lasting HIV prevention

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 10, 2020

The findings “could transform the HIV prevention landscape for so many people,” said Megan Coleman, DNP.

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Brazilian patient in HIV remission, negative antibody test

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 8, 2020

The 35-year-old Brazilian man participated in a trial in which he received an intensified antiretroviral regimen plus supplemental vitamin B_3<...

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COVID-19 disruptions ‘life threatening’ for people with HIV

Author:: Heather Boerner

Publish date: July 7, 2020

“We’re profoundly worried about the impact of COVID-19 on actual treatment outcomes,” said Gandhi, cochair of the...