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While vaccination typically provides robust protection against severe disease, they’re less effective for immunocompromised people.

A large study found that heart disease and mental health conditions are driving use of multiple medications as people age.

A growing number of transplant programs are barring patients who refuse COVID vaccines or giving them lower priority on waiting lists.

In the context of universal health care, this may be a result of more frequent access to care.

As people with HIV live longer thanks to effective antiretroviral treatment, they are prone to a host of additional health problems.

Congress passed a law in 2013 allowing such organ transplants in research studies.

Among people with well-treated HIV, age-associated non-AIDS-related health conditions are increasing.

Researchers compared data on more than 9,000 people with HIV who took either version of tenofovir.

That’s according to a study of 55 HIV-positive people with end-stage kidney failure.

A review of the major findings presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in San Francisco

Advocate John Tenorio could be the first HIV-positive person to receive a kidney from a living donor with HIV.

Compared with their HIV-negative peers, HIV-positive individuals have higher rates of treatment for a host of health problems.

Highlights from HIV and hepatitis C research presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston