#antiretroviral
📃Scientific paper: Weight, Anthropometric and Metabolic Changes After Discontinuing Antiretroviral Therapy Containing Tenofovir Alafenamide in People With HIV

Ref.: Oxford University Press, 2024

➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
"For antiretroviral therapies (ART) like the medications that treat HIV, adherence is critical. Bundling ART together with safer supply ... can make [adherence] possible for people who have structural barriers working against them."
"Accessing safer supply supported their adherence to HIV medications," said Andrew Ivsins, a researcher with the BC Centre on Substance Use. "It’s a really important relationship."
In British Columbia, Drug Policy Rollbacks Are Limiting HIV Care - Filter
Harley Ransom began practicing harm reduction in southeastern Ontario in the late 1980s, when he was 6 years old. His ...
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February 10, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Despite major advances in antiretroviral therapy, HIV infection remains a significant global public health challenge. Read this Systematic Review /Meta-analysis of prevalence of HIV-associated nephropathy in children. Open Access
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 9, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Unsuppressed viraemia and lower CD4 count associated with faster telomere attrition in African children with perinatal #HIV on long-term antiretroviral therapy academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... (open access) @jidjournal.bsky.social
Unsuppressed viraemia and lower CD4 count associated with faster telomere attrition in African children with perinatal HIV on long-term antiretroviral therapy
Measurable immunologic ageing longitudinally within one year and prevalence of unsuppressed viraemia despite long-term antiretroviral therapy highlight the
academic.oup.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
New NK cell immune therapy targets hidden HIV reservoirs

https://www.vitaminrush.com/302552/new-nk-cell-immune-therapy-targets-hidden-hiv-reservoirs/

Scientists have developed enhanced NK cell therapy that could help people with HIV control the virus without lifelong antiretroviral treatment. …
New NK cell immune therapy targets hidden HIV reservoirs - Vitamin Rush
Scientists have developed enhanced NK cell therapy that could help people with HIV control the virus without lifelong antiretroviral treatment.
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February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
El marido es un bullrichista miliquito, facho, que se viste horrible. Él se hace el progre pero no es más que un cordobés cheto garca. Hace poco comentó en un video de un club deportivo "Tirás un antiretroviral ahí y no toca el suelo" -QUÉ GRACIOSO not
February 7, 2026 at 10:04 PM
With annual flu or COVID shots, if you skip a year, you still have some residual protection. With an antiretroviral drug, once it’s out of your system, the protective effect is gone. The difference is how they work: training the immune system versus disabling a virus.
February 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The biggest practical difference is that vaccines generally induce some degree of lasting immunity. Even with annual flu or COVID shots, if you skip a year, you have some residual protection. With an antiretroviral drug, once it’s out of your system, the protective effect is gone.
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The biggest practical difference is that vaccines generally induce some degree of lasting immunity. Even with annual flu or COVID shots, if you skip a year, you have some residual protection. With an antiretroviral drug, once it’s out of your system, the protective effect is gone.
February 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
As an HIV journalist, I don’t like seeing lenacapavir PrEP referred to as a “vaccine” because it’s an antiretroviral drug — it doesn’t train the immune system to fight HIV. But if thinking of it as “essentially a vaccine” increases uptake & funding, I guess I can live with it.
Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM
As an HIV journalist, I don’t like seeing lenacapavir PrEP referred to as a “vaccine” because it’s an antiretroviral drug — it doesn’t train the immune system to fight HIV. But if thinking of it as “essentially a vaccine” increases uptake & funding, I guess I can live with it.
February 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Cipla Signals Readiness to Stabilise ARV Supply Amid Supplier Business Rescue

https://www.europesays.com/africa/69410/

(3 Minutes Read) Two suppliers awarded the current antiretroviral (ARV) tender—Avacare Health subsidiaries Barrs Pharmaceuticals Industries and Innovata…
Cipla Signals Readiness to Stabilise ARV Supply Amid Supplier Business Rescue - Europe Africa
(3 Minutes Read)
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February 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
AZT was horrific stuff. It was marginally better than the disease it was designed to fight. Akin to chemo in many of its side effects. But still preferable to certain, protracted death.

Then the antiretroviral combos in the mid-late 90s turned living with HIV into a full-time med management job.
February 7, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Since 2020, we have helped connect more than 78,000 people to ART.

ART stands for antiretroviral therapy. It is the lifesaving treatment for HIV. Yet right now, 9.2 million people living with HIV are not on treatment.

This is what ART is and why it matters.
February 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Reduction of the HIV-1 reservoir in T cells from people with HIV-1 on suppressive antiretroviral therapy using expanded natural killer cells journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... (open access) #HIV
Reduction of the HIV-1 reservoir in T cells from people with HIV-1 on suppressive antiretroviral therapy using expanded natural killer cells | mBio
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) lowers HIV levels in the blood to nearly undetectable amounts, but stopping therapy almost always leads to HIV rebounding in the bloodstream. DNA and RNA tests show that m...
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February 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Integration of family planning services into antiretroviral therapy for HIV in differentiated models of care in South Africa: a cross-sectional survey https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.05.26345622v1
February 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Araştırmacılar, bu yaklaşımın antiretroviral ilaçlar olmadan HIV’in uzun süreli bağışıklık kontrolünü mümkün kılabileceğini belirtiyor.
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
İmmün hücre tedavisi, günlük ilaç kullanımı olmadan HIV'i kontrol altına almayı hedefledi.

Araştırmacılar, NK hücrelerini HIV rezervuarlarını hedef alarak saldırmaları için değiştirdiler.

Bu, antiretroviral tedavi olmadan virüsü baskılama umudu doğurdu.
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
When We All Get to Heaven – Episode 09

https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/165966/

In 1996, with the introduction of antiretroviral medications called the “cocktail,” people with HIV started getting better —…
When We All Get to Heaven - Episode 09 - California News Beep
In 1996, with the introduction of antiretroviral medications called the “cocktail,” people with HIV started getting better — some dramatically. Surviving AIDS
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February 6, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Lab-enhanced natural killer cells have demonstrated increased ability to target and reduce HIV reservoirs, offering potential for long-term viral control without daily antiretroviral therapy. doi.org/hbnsfp
Targeting HIV's hidden reservoirs: Lab-enhanced natural killer cells show promise
More than 30 million people with HIV must take antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications daily to keep the virus under control, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
medicalxpress.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Could this antiretroviral combat glioblastoma?

There may be a new way to slow the growth of glioblastoma with a medication already on the pharmacy shelf, new Canadian research finds.
Could this antiretroviral combat glioblastoma?
There may be a new way to slow the growth of glioblastoma with a medication already on the pharmacy shelf, new Canadian research finds.
canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca
February 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Immune non-response despite effective antiretroviral therapy in people living with #HIV: A review of potential mechanisms, biomarkers and therapeutic approaches onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks to @hivmedicine.bsky.social for making this review open access.
Immune non‐response despite effective antiretroviral therapy in people living with HIV: A review of potential mechanisms, biomarkers and therapeutic approaches
Introduction A proportion of people living with HIV (PLWH) fail to restore their CD4 count or their CD4/CD8 ratio despite effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). PLWH with immune non-response (INR) ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
“Real-world data demonstrate low rates of virologic failure and adverse events when switching virologically suppressed patients with HIV to 2-drug antiretroviral therapy regimens.” www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/news/dual-ar...
Switch to INSTI+NRTI ART Regimens Highly Effective in Virologically Suppressed HIV
Switching to a 2-drug ART regimen was highly effective and well tolerated in virologically suppressed patients with HIV.
www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Time to HIV rebound after antiretroviral therapy interruption: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial of long-acting broadly neutralising antibodies; The RIO Trial https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.25342277v1
February 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Side note: Why do all these billionaires, Musk, Saylor, Johnson all look like the after for antiretroviral therapy?
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM