News about HIV & Mental Health

South Africans may soon get antidepressants from a nurse

Professional nurses may soon be trained to prescribe pills for mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety ...

New legal principles launched on International Women’s Day to advance decriminalization efforts

The International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) along with UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights officially ...

Top 5 HIV treatment stories from CROI 2023

A study looking at integrase inhibitors found that they do not raise cardiovascular risk in people starting HIV treatment. Previous studies

In HIV, Mental Health Impacts Viral Suppression, But Not Retention in Care

People with HIV experience a high prevalence of mental health (MH) conditions and associated multimorbidity, and those with mental health...

Expanding the role of nurses in HIV care in Ukraine

The mental health screening is particularly important but often overlooked when focusing on medical management of HIV/AIDS. However ...

On Zero Discrimination Day, countries urged to decriminalise to save lives

On Zero Discrimination Day 2023, commemorated on March 1, UNAIDS highlights the need to remove laws that criminalize people living with HIV

High resilience linked to high PrEP use among Canadian MSM

Canadian men who have sex with men (MSM) who are eligible for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and had higher resilience scores were also

Brain aging in HIV affected by adverse social determinants of health, comorbidities

Social determinants of health were found to be associated with brain aging among patients with HIV infection, according to results of a retr

HIV incidence and mortality in transgender women in the eastern and southern USA

Epidemiological monitoring of HIV among transgender women is minimal despite prioritisation of this group in the US National HIV/AIDS Strate