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Scientists at the 10th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019) in Mexico City have unveiled a new implant that allows patients the protection of PrEP for a year without having to take oral medication. Pharmaceutical company MSD announced the new implant known as Islatravir. Doctors implant it under the skin of a patient’s arm where it administers a small, steady dose of a drug cocktail that blocks the transmission and seroconversion of HIV. PrEP has become widely prescribed...

Morris Singeltary, 42 Spectacular HIV activist, peer educator Singletary brings a message of hope and faith to black men dealing with HIV by reassuring them that there is support for them, both from their own community and, despite what they have been told from the conservative preacher set, from God as well. You have to have a lot of charisma to hold your own onstage with Beyoncé and JAY-Z, and Singletary has plenty to spare. Singletary was among the black...

In another ground breaking move, Gilead Sciences are giving thousands access to the new HIV prevention pill, called PrEP. These tests are currently being run in New South Wales, Australia and include participants mostly from France and Canada. Trials are run completely double blind, meaning that participants do not know if the drugs they are taking are PrEP or placebos and neither do the doctors! This allows the results to be seen as realistically as possible since there is no...