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Short Bites: Tongue and Mouth Issues in COVID-19 Patients
CHICAGO (Feb. 12, 2021) – The American Dental Association (ADA) has been tracking developments of tongue and mouth issues COVID-19 patients experience since early on in the pandemic. Oral health is an important and vital part of overall health, and the ADA is continuing to...
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Short Bites: Unmasked Patients-Conflicts, Accommodations, and Common Sense
Even before COVID-19 inexorably changed social and clinical protocols, dental offices dealt with patients who claimed to “know better” than their providers when it came to health risks. From unvaccinated patients to incomplete health histories, failure to cooperate results in ethical and legal...
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Short Bites: HIV Oral Health and COVID-19
The relationship between oral health and overall health has been well established for many comorbidities including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
We are still learning about COVID-19 and how it affects people living with HIV. Based on limited data, people with HIV who are on...
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HIV-related Journal Articles by AETC-Affiliated Researchers and Faculty, 2019-2020
We close out 2020 by recognizing the productivity of the AETC community despite this year’s challenges and setbacks. In addition to restructuring and reimagining their clinical settings and AETC-related programming due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AETC members were also researching and...
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Short Bites: Report Finds COVID-19 Rate Among Dentists is Less than One Percent
CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2020 — Although assumed to be at high risk for COVID-19, fewer than one percent of dentists nationwide were found to be COVID-19 positive, according to a first-of-its-kind report in the U.S. based on data collected in June 2020. The result is far below that of other health...
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Short Bites: Citizen Scientists Take on the Challenge of Long-Haul COVID-19
Highlights from the NIH Directors Blog (9/3/20), by Dr. Francis Collins
Among the many longer-term health problems that have been associated with COVID-19 are shortness of breath, fatigue, cognitive issues, erratic heartbeat, gastrointestinal issues, low-...
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Short Bites: Personal Protective Equipment Optimization
With the number of Coronavirus cases surpassing 7.3 million and 210,000 deaths in the United States, dental offices continue to be faced with shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). Surge capacity refers to the ability to manage a sudden increase in patient volume that would severely...
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Addressing the HIV Outbreak among People with HIV and the American Indian Community: MATEC Minnesota's HIV Practice Transformation Project Successes
The Native American Community Clinic (NACC) in Minneapolis has been highly successful in integrating HIV care into their Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Minnesota has eleven sovereign American Indian (AI) nations1, and the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis (where NACC is...
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Integrating Behavioral Health and Clinical Care to End the HIV Epidemic among Black Men who have Sex with Men
Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) are more affected by HIV than any other group in the United States. In spite of recent incremental progress to reduce the rate of increase in new HIV infections, Black men continue to account for the largest proportion of new HIV diagnoses among MSM. Not...
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AETC Interprofessional Education Training: Shifting Gears in the Time of COVID-19
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Northeast/Caribbean (NECA) AIDS Education & Training Center (AETC) found itself in need of a massive shift in its training methods. Within a matter of days, we were faced with shifting all of our in-person learning sessions to an entirely virtual...
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Long-acting Injectable PrEP: Cabotegravir
A long-acting formulation of the investigational integrase inhibitor cabotegravir (CAB) is being studied as a single agent for HIV prevention. (CAB also has been studied, in combination with long-acting rilpivirine, as treatment for people with HIV, see Long-Acting Injectable ART: Cabotegravir...
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New ARV Approval - Fostemsavir
In July 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved fostemsavir (FTR) for treatment of people with multi-drug resistant HIV-1 whose current ARV regimen is failing because of resistance, intolerance, or safety issues. FTR is a novel attachment inhibitor that binds the HIV envelope...
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Short Bites: Testing and Clinical Management of Health Care Personnel Potentially Exposed to HCV — CDC Guidance
Recommendations and Reports / July 24, 2020 / 69(6);1–8
Exposure to hepatitis viruses is a recognized occupational risk for health care personnel (HCP). This report establishes new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance that includes recommendations for a testing...
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Weight Gain and Metabolic Complications with ART: Data from AIDS 2020
Over the past few years, numerous studies have examined weight gain in people with HIV who start or change antiretroviral therapy (ART). While it is clear that some people gain excessive amounts of weight after starting (and sometimes upon changing) ART, the roles of specific antiretroviral (ARV...
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Safety of Dolutegravir at Conception: Updated Data
In 2018, initial results from the Tsepamo study of birth outcomes in Botswanan women treated with ART during pregnancy raised questions about the safety of dolutegravir (DTG) when given at the time of conception or very early in pregnancy. Specifically, an early interim analysis found a higher...
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Short Bites: Study Shows Oropharyngeal Secretions as Alternative for COVID-19 Detection
As the global battle to understand and eliminate the coronavirus continues, a new study published in the Journal of Dental Research demonstrates that testing of oropharyngeal secretions (OS) may reduce the number of false-negative results from nasal swab testing of patients who have...
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Short Bites: Updates from AIDS 2020 Virtual
Interesting HIV medication and treatment highlights from the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020), held virtually, July 6-10, 2020.
Long-acting injectable CAB is more effective in preventing HIV than daily oral TruvadaUpdated results from the HPTN 083 study found that...
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AETC Representation at the 2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Below is the preliminary schedule of AETC Program sessions and poster presentations planned for the 2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment. The AETC National Coordinating Resource Center will also be exhibiting, representing the AETC Program's training materials,...
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Short Bites: CDC Guidance for Dental Settings Echoes ADA Guidance During COVID-19
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated interim infection prevention and control guidance for dental settings during the COVID-19 response on May 19, 2020, very similar to science-based guidance issued earlier in May by the American Dental Association (ADA).
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We Can’t Get to Zero if Science Isn’t the Hero
I never thought my experience as a Black woman, nor my experience as a woman who enjoys sex, would combine in a way that could put me in jail. When I was diagnosed with HIV in 2003, I had a very limited understanding of what that meant with respect to accessing treatment, being virally...
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