How Can AETCs Best Evaluate Their HIV Testing Activities?
The new CDC funding (associated with CDC announcement PS 10-10138) provides support for AETCs to deliver training and technical assistance coordinated through funded health departments. Although local needs may differ across sites, regional evaluators have agreed on the measureable constructs below:
Should We Conceptualize Major Depression a Medical Comorbidity of HIV Infection?
About 30% of people receiving care and treatment for HIV infection have major depression. But is it best to conceptualize major depression as a mental illness or a medical illness? If you wake up in a bad mood but your body feels fine, you are very unlikely to have major depression. Physical symptoms, such as severe fatigue and disturbances of sleep and appetite, are part of the diagnostic criteria for major depression, and other physical complaints, such as dizziness, palpitations and gastrointestinal disturbances, are very common.
Cobicistat and Stribild Use in Patients with Renal Insufficiency
This was an open-label study. It evaluated the renal safety of elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir (Stribild, or the "quad" pill) and cobicistat. For those patients with mild-to-moderate renal impairment (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR]: 50 to <90 mL/min).