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The country’s new administration is changing the way it buys medicines and funds clinics.

Traditionally hep C transmits sexually mostly among HIV-positive men who have sex with men.

Researchers have found that among men, microbiomes differed based on whether they have sex with men or women.

Researchers analyzed data on people living with HIV in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands.

However, this finding applied only to those in low- and middle-income nations.

Researchers believe that hepatitis C is spreading through sex from the HIV-positive population to those who don’t have HIV.

New details have surfaced since the U.S. ordered a Chinese firm to sell the gay dating app it acquired last year.

A study of young gay and bi men and trans women in Chicago found PrEP stigma was linked with lower rates of use of Truvada for prevention.

The CDC estimates that 40 percent of the 1.1 million people with HIV are undiagnosed or not receiving medical care for the virus.

HIV-positive men who have sex with men in Western nations historically have a significant risk of contracting hepatitis C through sex.

The diagnosis rate fell by 50 percent in just two years among gay and bi men who attended sexual clinics at least twice in one year.

This finding stresses the need to reduce the risk of sexual transmission of hep C among HIV-positive men who have sex with men.

This finding refers specifically to viral mutations conferring resistance to the emtricitabine component of the two-drug tablet Truvada.

The bacterial infection, passed through contact with feces, can prompt diarrhea, stomach cramps, fever, vomiting, weakness and fatigue.

About one third of trans women who engaged in a study conducted between 2010 and 2016 tested positive for HIV.

The CDC has contradicted its own previous reports by characterizing this recent trend as a plateau that followed a “dramatic decline.”